Michelle Obama delivers a series of blistering insults of Trump and gives a brutal one-liner about 'black jobs' in speech to roaring Democratic convention

Former First Lady Michelle Obama declared 'hope is making a comeback' at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as she gave heartfelt praise for Vice President Kamala Harris and delivered a scathing condemnation of Donald Trump. 

'Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn't it?' the former first lady said after taking the stage inside the United Center to a hero's welcome.

'Not just here in this arena, but spreading all across this country we love, a familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for too long. You know what I'm talking about? It's the contagious power of hope.'

The former first lady invoked hope was a reminder of her husband former President Obama's own historic run for the presidency. Obama gave a ringing endorsement of Harris calling her 'ready for this moment.'

'Her story is your story. It's my story. It's the story of the vast majority of Americans trying to build a better life,' she said. 

Obama first eluded to Harris' Republican opponent Trump before turning on him directly by name with a series of blistering insults that was perhaps the most vicious rebuttal of the GOP presidential nominee at the convention to date. 

'Kamala has shown her allegiance to this nation, not by spewing anger and bitterness, but by living a life of service and always pushing the doors of opportunity open for others,' she said. 

'If we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we don't get a second, third, or fourth chance,' she said. 'If we see a mountain in front of us, we don't expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top.'  

She warned that she knows what comes next and there would be those who would try to distort Harris' truth. 

'My husband and I, sadly, know a little something about this,' she said. 'For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,' she said. 

'His limited and narrow view of the world made him feel threatened by the existence of two hardworking, highly educated, successful people who also happened to be black.'

'Who's going to tell him that the job he's currently seeking might just be one of those "black jobs?"' she said. 

The crowd in the arena went absolutely wild in response to her stunning takedown.

'It's his same old con: doubling down on ugly, misogynistic, racist lies as a substitute for real ideas and solutions that will actually make people's lives better,' she went on.

She argued that 'going small is petty' and called it unhealthy and unpresidential. 

Obama gave a ringing endorsement of Harris, saying she and Harris both built their lives on the same foundational values' and praised her and running mate Tim Walz as 'good, big-hearted people.'

'She is one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency, and she is one of the most dignified,  a tribute to her mother, to my mother, and probably to your mother too,' she said. 

But the former first lady did not just heap praise on the Democratic presidential nominee, she warned that Democrats face an uphill battle and a close race. The former first lady used her speech as a call for action.

'No, this is up to us, all of us, to be the solution we seek. It is up to all of us to be the antidote to all the darkness and division,' she said. 

She said 'our fate is in our hands' and urged Democrats to 'work like our lives depend on it' until election day.

Obama was a superstar in the United Center in Chicago. She is one of if not the most beloved Democrat in the party. Many hoped at one point she would run for president herself. 

But the former first lady might be one of the most powerful advocates for Harris and Democrats without running. 

Her message was so well received, when she went to introduce her husband, the former president, he joked that he's ready to go 'even if I'm the only person stupid enough to speak right after Michelle Obama.'

As Obama spoke, Harris and Walz were just ninety miles away in Milwaukee where they were holding a separate packed rally in the battleground state of Wisconsin at the same venue where Republicans held their convention last month.