All posts tagged "Obama"

A former Trump White House aide says Republicans latched onto one piece of former President Barack Obama's joke to dodge the part that stung.

Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary in President Donald Trump's first White House who resigned over the January 6 attack, told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt on Thursday's broadcast of "The Arena" that the GOP is ignoring the part of Obama's joke that compared Trump to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Obama recently joked that Trump's renovations had made the White House look as if Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory. Republicans have since pounced on the restaurant chain line to paint Obama and fellow Democrats as out-of-touch elitists....

Former President Barack Obama took another bite out of the Cheesecake Factory controversy at a rally in Georgia, and critics predicted President Donald Trump wouldn’t take it well.

“Trump is going to have a 5 alarm temper tantrum when he hears this,” wrote a political commentator who goes by Polly Sigh, in response to the speech.

Obama was speaking at a “United for Georgia” rally, where he addressed the backlash to his viral line from last week that Trump has the White House “looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.”...

Former President Barack Obama landed a dessert-themed jab at President Donald Trump’s White House makeover at a rally in Ohio Saturday. A pair of prominent conservatives tried to turn it into proof of liberal elitism, and the replies did not go their way.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory,” Obama told the crowd, in a clip shared by journalist Aaron Rupar that had drawn nearly half a million views by Saturday.

Steve Krakauer, executive producer of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” was unimpressed....

President Donald Trump attacked former President Barack Obama on Truth Social Saturday night at 11:42 PM Eastern, after Obama rallied in Detroit for Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed.

“Obama was a grossly incompetent President!” Trump wrote. “He paid off Iran with $Billions, and gave them a road to a Nuclear Weapon.”

Trump then mocked Obama’s record on the campaign trail: “He said that Crooked Hillary Clinton was going to WIN, he campaigned hard for her, and she lost in all directions and ways. He then campaigned full out for Kamala, and likewise, she lost.”...

Former President Barack Obama is asking Democrats to look past Congress and toward the races he says will shape Americans’ lives more directly: the contests for seats in state legislatures.

In a fundraising email sent Tuesday evening for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), Obama argued that state lawmakers often matter more to ordinary people than the officials in Washington.

“In a lot of ways, the people who represent us at the state level have more of an impact on our lives than our elected officials in Washington,” Obama wrote....

It's 2026 and Senate Republicans are worried about Barack Obama.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent supporters a message Wednesday morning with the subject line "Obama plots Senate takeover." The email urged readers to "brace yourself" and "read the emergency report."

"After an election forecaster called the House a 'DONE DEAL' for the Democrats… Obama now turns his sights to the United States Senate," the NRSC wrote....