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Former President Barack Obama took a brutal swipe at President Donald Trump's taste in decor, and critics of the president couldn't get enough.

Obama appeared in Cleveland on Saturday to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. During his speech to a packed crowd, Obama mocked the gold trim and accents Trump has added to the White House since returning to office. "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," Obama said. "It's gold everywhere."

The video clips of the jab quickly spread across social media, where Trump critics cheered the former president's delivery....

President Donald Trump got personal on Tuesday, posting a video attacking former First lady Michelle Obama and praising Vice President JD Vance.

Trump shared the video clip on his Truth Social platform. It said "watch the difference in thinking" and featured different cuts from frank conversations around parenting and life in the White House, and juxtaposed them in a split-screen targeting Obama's comments. It aimed to "contrast" Obama's statements with Vance's remarks on family life, taking a swing at the Democrat and "the perpetual victims, that the left are, where they see oppression in everything."

The president has often taken jabs at Michelle Obama and her husband, former President Barack Obama, during and prior to the 2016 presidential campaign, throughout his first presidency, and after leaving office. He has criticized their policies, statements and appearances. A post he shared in February on his Truth Social platform depicting Barack and Michelle as animals has been condemned, despite the president defending it....

President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters have started to turn on him, using his affinity for conspiracy theories to flip the script, a columnist reported on Friday.

Matt Lewis, an opinion contributor for The Hill, revealed how Trump's long-time use of 'extreme conclusions,' including his firm belief that the 2020 election was stolen, his claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in America (although Obama was born in Hawaii), and his belief that Haitian immigrants living in Ohio were eating cats and dogs, was haunting him.

"Regardless, we have entered a new and possibly ironic phase of the timeline: Trump is finally discovering what it’s like to be on the losing end of a conspiracy theory," Lewis wrote....

The internet erupted on Monday after President Donald Trump tried to take credit for a military operation that killed the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States — which Trump did not actually lead.

Trump was speaking about the Iran war during a high-stakes press conference at the White House when he made the claim that he was behind the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

"I did one other, but this one was not picked up: Osama bin Laden," Trump said. ...

Joy Behar stopped guest host Abby Huntsman in her tracks on Wednesday during a fiery moment on "The View."

The former Fox News host suggested that President Donald Trump had done a good thing by initiating military strikes against Iran and escalating the war in the Middle East, The Daily Beast reported. After a series of comments, Behar started to push back on Huntsman's claims.

"I think any time we can deter Iran, whether it’s for another year, whether it’s for 10 years," Huntsman said, saying Trump's move was to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. "I think that’s a win for this country."...

Former President Barack Obama delivered a strong message to President Donald Trump — and the nation — in his eulogy for civil rights icon the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago on Friday.

The celebration of life for Jackson, who died on Feb. 17 at age 84, included thousands of people at the House of Hope in Chicago. Obama, a close friend of Jackson, was one of several notable speakers and performers to take the stage, and took a moment during his speech to describe what Jackson meant to him, his legacy and important work.

Without naming Trump directly, Obama criticized the president — describing the current state of leadership in the United States and how Jackson's commitment to democracy has been tested. Obama argued that it mattered to continue Jackson's message of hope. ...