Obama compares Trump White House to a 'Cheesecake Factory'; Trump lashes out

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At a suburban Atlanta rally, former president Barack Obama mocked the Trump White House, saying the Oval Office "looks like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory" and accusing President Trump of "supergluing gold medallions to the mantel," an image drawn from Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Obama said the administration did not rebut his charges about inflation or corruption but instead "mobilized a whole-of-government response" to the Cheesecake Factory joke. He said the White House even called the Treasury Secretary, a former hedge-fund manager worth half a billion dollars, who held a press conference in front of a Cheesecake Factory and discussed his menu choice. The New Yorker noted Obama repeatedly laughed during the nearly five-hundred-word riff and that the line tied together Trump’s unpopular war in the Middle East, rising prices at home, and what Obama framed as entitled indifference from the president and his circle. The piece added that more than ten billion dollars has already been spent on campaign advertising this cycle and called Obama’s remark one of the most on-message moments of the fall. The article does not provide details of any Trump reaction to the Atlanta remarks.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

JD Vance takes umbrage with Obama being "elitist" about the Cheesecake Factory, but doesn't object to his comparison of Trump and Saddam

8346h ago

Meidas Clementine 223

Just admit bro. Obama smoked your guy

Mike Bloom16

Laser focused on the issues that matter to voters

BonBon🤌15

Can anyone in that audience even afford The Cheesecake Factory right now because of the affordability crisis you created?? Also, he goes after Obama for being an "elitist" when he literally has part ownership in a Venture Capitalist firm and is backed by billionaire, Peter Thiel. GTFOH!!!

Boss Best9

Little J.D. takes a lot of things from lots of people, but I'm not sure he knows what umbrage is, he's a very low IQ individual. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

HockeyDad5

He compared him to Saddam Hussein but nah, let’s focus on the god damn Cheesecake Factory part of the sentence

Crunk4

How many of those people that like Cheesecake Factory would decorate their house like a Cheesecake Factory?

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Doug Gordon37

Not than anyone needs to prolong this fake controversy, but Democrats could remind people that this is not a dig at the Cheesecake Factory, but a dig at what Trump has done to the White House. We all love kitschy things, but we don't want one of the nation's most historic buildings to be kitschy.

🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ25

I can easily imagine all the rich white people at Mar-a-Lago commenting on how “elitist” Barack Obama is.

Keith Fitzgerald3

The puppet of a fascist billionaire calling someone else "elitist" is comically hypocritical.

Serendipity3

Yes let's talk about bragging and the elites JD ...dude!

the womandalorian2

it would be nice if literally any outlet wasn’t actively lying about this. it’s quite literally an joke at their decor’s expense, not at the company itself. just purely bad faith

The New Yorker

@newyorker.com

The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

772h ago

BonBon🤌

@roadreclaimed.bsky.social

156h ago

Tickled Catastrophe

@tickledcatastrophe.bsky.social

Barry Obama & The Cheesecake Factory has been my favorite October surprise.

124h ago

hghwy1.bsky.social

@hghwy1.bsky.social

The newspaper that ran 2 articles about Obama vs Cheesecake Factory and none about new rape allegations against the current president?

91h ago

grimm 🎃

@mugrimm.bsky.social

tbf that was the point they were trying to make. Cheesecake factory is 'fancy' to them, and thus Obama is looking down on them for thinking its fancy. That said it's stupid, If you went to your friends house/apartment and it looked like a cheesecake factory regardless of income you'd be concerned.

93h ago

Amyville Hoyrror2

the point is they always react this way to every type of criticism especially from a woman, white or black, or black man. they don’t believe or think anything other than animalistic reactions.

Anne Harden Tindall

@anne-tindall.bsky.social

I’m not mad they’re covering it. I’m mad at the treatment it is getting, & that Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke is getting, compared to Mems of Congress publishing a report based on the Epstein files that credibly accuses the president of another rape & shows his closeness to Epstein’s trafficking.

42h ago

Give_Me_A_Minute

@phd-rn5.bsky.social

I will always hear Barack Obama when I see Trump in the “redecorated” Oval Office. “looks like Saddam Husain opened a Cheesecake Factory” (paraphrasing)

65h ago

🦋 Lucy Burns 🦋

@lucyburns.bsky.social

Damn, President Obama must have been a highly-competitive college debater, as he just flowed his entire case against Republicans and Trump across while pointing out Trump’s Cheesecake Factory tears as Trump and Republican’s sole rebuttal, then decimated that only point of contention. Masterclass!

73h ago

Bryan Marchese

@bryanmarchese.bsky.social

It's a combination of him getting heckled every rally, Obama is still very much in his head about the cheesecake factory thing, and he's about to bomb the living shit out out of somewhere to try to declare a war to stop the midterms. Trust me he's gonna do something batshit insane..

56h ago

🖇️Patty--M57

@pattym57.bsky.social

'With Love In Georgia' C H E E S E C A K E 🧀 🇺🇲 Obama 44 🔵🦅 youtu.be/WP0Fr2ofRc4?...

21h ago

A Travis-T

@tr0rna.bsky.social

I'm not sure what the whole Obama Cheesecake kerfuffle is supposed to do, but Republicans and the media seem to think it's a real affront to regular working Americans. Your average dinner entree at The Cheesecake Factory is between $20-$30. A luxury usafoodmenu.com/menu/cheesec...

43h ago

mikeymomo.bsky.social

@mikeymomo.bsky.social

Oct 29, 2026 #Kimmel Trump handed out candy to kids on the South Lawn, his rallies have been interrupted lately by hecklers, Trump can’t stop talking about throwing Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and taking multiple cognitive tests, Obama responded to the right.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_eU...

52h ago

Maureen

@liberallady5678.bsky.social

Obama is living rent free. And, it's not just the Cheesecake Factory remarks, it's also the crowd sizes he is drawing at his campaign rallies. Trump can't fill a high school gym anymore.

26h ago

Paul Allen.

@paulallen2018.bsky.social

Trump Lashes Out at a Reporter, Hecklers Take Over His Rallies & Obama's Cheesecake Factory Response www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_eU...

12h ago

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