{"id":2691686,"date":"2026-10-26T08:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-saddam-hussein-jab-at-trumps-ornate-wh-backfires-as-critics-point-out-he-built-a-wizard-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:31:02","slug":"obamas-saddam-hussein-jab-at-trumps-ornate-wh-backfires-as-critics-point-out-he-built-a-wizard-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-saddam-hussein-jab-at-trumps-ornate-wh-backfires-as-critics-point-out-he-built-a-wizard-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Saddam Hussein Jab at Trump&#8217;s Ornate WH Backfires as Critics Point Out He Built a &#8216;Wizard Prison&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobamas-saddam-hussein-jab-at-trumps-ornate-wh-backfires-as-critics-point-out-he-built-a-wizard-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2691686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If people in glass houses shouldn\u2019t throw stones, what does one say about a man in an ugly granite and concrete house?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Barack Obama feels a bit safer, from all indications. The former president, on the road trying to shore up support for Senate candidate Sherrod Brown in Ohio, decided that it was high time to bring out the hoary leftist line that President Donald Trump is tacky.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did he manage to make himself look elitist, but he also looked like a wretched hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven\u2019t caught any of Obama\u2019s speeches on the campaign trail this time around, they\u2019ve mostly been substance-free ad hominem attempts at political stand-up \u2014 at least when they go viral.<\/p>\n<p>No more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dont-look-now-bidens-trying-distance-smug-obamas-legacy\/\">bitter clinger nonsense<\/a>; he knows better than that. Instead, he\u2019s found a different way to sound elitist: criticizing Trump\u2019s taste, particularly in White House renovations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations,\u201d Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-compares-trump-saddam-hussein-controversial-campaign-rally-joke\/\">told the crowd in Ohio<\/a>. \u201cHe should be on HGTV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but then the punchline: \u201cHe\u2019s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cHe\u2019s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory\u201d \u2014 Obama https:\/\/t.co\/3fH8IQP1MG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2114072550426681781?\">October 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hysterical, no? Ahahaha, you plebs eat at a casual dining restaurant, and it looks like Trump does, too. But tackier, like Saddam Hussein!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about Saddam Hussein \u2014 a man who\u2019d probably still be alive and in power, if Obama had his druthers \u2014 but at least the Cheesecake Factory gets value for money in its locations. Obama spent $1 billion to make a library that, as one user pointed out, looks like he designed a \u201cwizard prison for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OBAMA: \u201cHe\u2019s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ALSO OBAMA: https:\/\/t.co\/bmoAALpM6c<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jillian Anderson (@Jillie_Alexis) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jillie_Alexis\/status\/2114196773669372192?\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barack Obama has one helluva nerve criticizing the Trump White House and saying it looks like \u201cSaddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His center looks like a dystopian prison, and it cost American taxpayers over $123 million in infrastructure costs.<\/p>\n<p>Even The Guardian\u2019s own review called it a \u201cKlingon prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t even a real presidential library. The National Archives doesn\u2019t run it. There are no paper archives on site, and the spot first planned for the archives is now part of the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Gold or grey concrete?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll take the opulence of gold.<\/p>\n<p>F you, Barry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kentucky Girl (@Kentuckygirl1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kentuckygirl1\/status\/2114132704945926313?\">October 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Obama mocks Trump\u2019s ballroom while standing in a library that looks like a giant garbage can. \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udc80<\/p>\n<p>Bro, look around before making fun of someone else\u2019s building! Your own backdrop looks like it belongs on garbage day! \ud83e\udd23 https:\/\/t.co\/w2bn4SWJVt<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 American Nightmare \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@thewakeninq) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thewakeninq\/status\/2114315154427171038?\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll take \u201cCheesecake Factory\u201d over \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20251009-how-hitlers-architect-escaped-the-death-penalty\">Albert Speer<\/a> Designs Stuff for \u2018Andor,\u2019\u201d but what do I know? After all, I\u2019m the kind of person who might go to the Cheesecake Factory, whereas Obama escaped that orbit some time ago \u2014 which is another thing that made the remark, in wokespeak, \u201cproblematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Makes speeches for 500k a pop. Hasn\u2019t eaten dinner that costs less than $250 in years. Has never been in a Cheesecake Factory. Undefeated at condescending to regular folks. Will always be known for a presidency that ushered in the Trump era to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ScottJenningsKY\/status\/2114147061834588506?\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dude owns (very nice) homes in DC, Chicago, Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and Hawaii. Would honestly love to know the last time he ever set foot in a Cheesecake Factory or spoke to anyone who saves up money to eat there.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rachelbovard\/status\/2114165918096150600?\">October 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And this is more or less the issue: Obama has been out of the game for so long that he\u2019s become irrelevant. He seems to inhabit a different era, one where elite-groomed apparatchiks like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Tony Podesta strode the White House steps, confident that they were keeping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hillary-clinton-defends-infamous-deplorables-comment-takes-even\/\">basket of deplorables<\/a> down where they belonged.<\/p>\n<p>Not even the American left seems to embrace that kind of energy anymore, and it\u2019s difficult to detect where it persists.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the NeverTrumpers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nevertrump-conservative-george-conway-eyes-dem-nadlers-nyc-seat-not-surprising-twist\/\">The Bulwark<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lincoln-project-bashes-trumps-latest-move-finds-abraham-lincoln-thing\/\">Lincoln Project<\/a> are trying to bring it back with their serial apoplexies, but other than that, it\u2019s pretty much over.<\/p>\n<p>But sure, lecture us from the billion-dollar \u201cwizard prison,\u201d Notorious BHO. 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