Posted on 05/07/2025 3:50:21 PM PDT by simpson96
The Obama Foundation touted progress on the construction of its presidential library Tuesday after President Trump mocked builders for being behind on developing the property.
“We can’t wait to open our doors to the Obama Presidential Center next spring! In addition to a world-class museum, the 19.3-acre campus will feature a gymnasium, a fruit and vegetable garden, a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground, and so much more,” the Obama Foundation wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
A separate post thanked all the workers for contributing to the project. The comments follow Trump’s Tuesday statements criticizing the time it’s taken to develop the library.
“I mean look, President Obama — and if he wanted help, I’d give him help because I build on time and on budget — he’s building his presidential library in Chicago. It’s a disaster,” Trump said during a presser with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“And he said something to the effect, ‘I only want DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion], 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,” he added.
The Obama Foundation responded to the president’s criticism in a Tuesday statement by emphasizing visitors’ positive experiences.
“Everyone who sees the Obama Presidential Center is blown away by its beauty, scale and the way it will be an economic engine for Chicago and a beacon of hope for the world,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Hill.
It's Obamadullah's hat tip to THIS Muzzie thing in Mecca:
Midnight basketball
Somethings are best kept in the family.
A FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDEN???
“”a fruit and vegetable garden,””
We saw his wife’s gardening ability when she resided in the White House. Don’t tell obozo but fruit doesn’t grow in a garden tho’ I do believe a tomato is considered a fruit...
Relief dropping from planet x 🪨
“Donald Trump will not be president,” says Barack Obama
17 February 2016, bbcnews.com
Then-President Obama: “Sometimes it [being president] requires you...doing things that are unpopular” Republican Donald Trump will not be president because it’s a “serious job”, President Barack Obama said. “I continue to believe that Mr Trump will not be president. And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people,” said Mr Obama.
Speaking at the Asean economic summit in California, the then-president was asked by a reporter about Mr Trump. The electorate will not pick him, said Mr Obama, because “they recognize that being president is a serious job”.
“It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show, it’s not promotion, it’s not marketing, it’s hard. It’s not a matter of pandering and doing whatever will get you in the news on a given day.” Mr Trump responded by saying it was a compliment to be criticised by a president who had done so much damage to the country.
The New York hotel developer’s antipathy to Mr Obama goes back a number of years - he used to demand that the president produce proof that he was born in the US. And his election campaign has continuously made headlines, for controversial remarks and policies. Mr Trump said he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, build a wall on the southern border paid for by Mexico and that Muslims should be stopped from entering the US.
Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, is the frontrunner in the race to be his party’s choice for the White House. He has won one state primary already, and leads the polls in South Carolina, where Republicans vote on Saturday.
That building looks like something built in a third world country.
> “… a beacon of hope for the world” <
I applaud the modesty of the Obama team. I expected them to say the building will be a beacon of hope for the entire universe.
😀
It looks like a county jail. Take a look at the Los Angeles Twin Tower jail and even that jail looks nicer than the Obama glorified porta potty.
books in the Obama library?
1. Communist Manifesto
2. Koran
3. A big stack of gay-action-figure comic books
4. Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
5. Guerilla Warfare by Ernesto “Che” Guevera
6. Koran
7. ?
Will the Big Mike wing be popup books?
Schwinggg that schlong
Why in the hell would DOGE have any part to play?
It’s a private Liebrary
If the clown gave him a cent of federal money, it is. Why has he disappered if true?
What clown?
Too many brews tonight?
I don’t drink
Answer the question please
Who are you babbling about? Obama, Musk, Trump???
Me thinks you’re the one in the sauce
And room for the beard, of course:
I can see 0bama in the fruit garden.
I’ll be sure to hit the daily 1pm Hate Whitey seminars..
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