Obama skewers Trump again, says he ‘wasn’t even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison’

Former President Barack Obama used a Wednesday night rally in Georgia to argue that President Donald Trump's administration answers jokes with more energy than it brings to the cost of living. The remarks came days after Obama, campaigning in Michigan, said Trump had made the White House look as though Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory, a jab at the gold-heavy redecoration of the Oval Office, according to MS NOW.

According to MS NOW, Trump and his allies spent the following days complaining about the joke, defending the restaurant chain and praising the president's renovations. Obama noted that the administration never disputed his claims that it bears responsibility for rising prices, that tariffs raise costs for families, or that it engages in unprecedented corruption. Trump, he said, took offense at the restaurant line but not the dictator comparison. Obama also pointed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holding an event at a Cheesecake Factory, and described the pattern as a deliberate strategy of distraction ahead of the midterms.

Meanwhile, speaking in Ohio, Trump criticized Obama for not appreciating clean sidewalks and said he preferred granite and marble to asphalt at the White House entrance.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →