President Donald Trump launched a scathing tirade against former President Barack Obama’s presidential library, which he slammed as a “disaster” being built by “woke” construction workers.
“I think it’s bad for the presidency that a thing like that should happen," he said
The off-script remarks came Tuesday during an Oval Office meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. While the two world leaders discussed tariffs and the relationship between the two countries in front of reporters, Trump veered into criticizing Obama’s library, which is being built in Chicago’s Jackson Park, according to CBS News.
“He’s building his library in Chicago. It's a disaster," Trump said. "And he said something to the effect, 'I only want DEI, I only want woke.' He wants woke people to build it. Well, he got woke people, and they have massive cost overruns. The job is stopped. I don't know, it's a disaster."
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Trump, who built his career in real estate, said he would help if asked. “He’s got a library that’s a disaster,” the MAGA leader said Tuesday.
"If he wanted help, I'd give him help because I’m a really good builder and I build on time, on budget,” Trump said.
He added, “He wanted to be very politically correct, and he didn't use good, hard, tough, mean construction workers that I love."
Trump went on to claim that Obama’s library project is “like millions of dollars, many, many — I mean, really, many millions of dollars over budget.”
“It was not built in a professional manner,” the president concluded.
