Michael Jordan was one of the players who were very vocal about what he thought. Be it social issues or issues within the organization. He never held back, be it in terms of his gameplay or his savage replies. He said what he wanted to and would get done with it. MJ was one of the few players who didn’t care about his public image.

Earlier, he did. But with the passage of time and his maturity, he stopped caring about it. This is one of the stories about MJ along similar lines. Once, after winning a championship, he was invited to go to the White House, and he refused to go. Know why he chose not to go and what was his response to the same.

Michael Jordan skipped lunch at the White House

After claiming the first championship in his career in 1990, Jordan was called to the White House for the ritual of having lunch with the President of the USA. When asked why he skipped lunch in an interview with Playboy, he gave a very savage reply. He said that “I didn?t want to go. I had something else to do.”?

He added, “I may not agree with what people want me to do. Who gives a damn? They don?t live the life that I try to live. Do I ask them why they go to the bathroom?”?

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Things got pretty intense in that interview after he lashed out at the interview.

Being a celebrity is never easy

Michael Jordan said that being a celebrity is not easy. He would be willing to trade lives with anyone who says otherwise, he said. Moreover, getting used to being a celebrity by the end of the fourth year, he also understood that he couldn’t continue living life according to others’ opinions. He said that he started caring less and less about people’s opinions, as clearly seen in his reply to declining the POTUS’ invitation.

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Do you think what he did was correct? Should he have gone to the lunch or was he right in giving it a miss? Let us know in the comments.