Obama Foundation touts progress on library after Trump mockery

The Hill ^ | 5/6/2025 | Ashleigh Fields

[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.

[Fungi]

You don’t know how to read.

[stylin19a]

remember this.... https://www.obamalibrary.gov/news/new-details-little-known-obama-presidential-library-tucked-away-hoffman-estates

Under the 1978 Presidential Records Act, NARA gets custody of all presidential records and artifacts when a president leaves office.

Inside the fortified and climate-controlled incognito Obama library on Shogan’s visit in July, 23 staffers — mostly archivists and technicians — were digitizing, cataloging, photographing and preserving records and artifacts from Obama’s two terms.

That’s about 25 million unclassified paper documents, by NARA’s estimate.

This facility was closed or sold and the documents were transferred to the real library.

now, read this again: staffers — mostly archivists and technicians — were digitizing, cataloging, photographing and preserving records and artifacts from Obama’s two terms.
That’s about 25 million unclassified paper documents,"

Who in the holy hell went thru 25 million paper documents and determined they were unclassified ?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“It’s a private Liebrary”

Ostensibly private. Looks private on the surface. But I’d wager that a good audit would find money originating at our tax payments. Fed —> USAID —> NGOs —> “Private donors” —> Barry Liebary.

[digger48]

I read just fine

I just don’t understand jibberish

Why can’t you answer my simple question?

WHO are you referring to?

[minnesota_bound]

obama and the democrats destroyed a park enjoyed by the locals for this guys ego.

[rxh4n1]

“Steal This Book” by Abbie Hoffman.

[GingisK]

I say it looks like a WWII German flak tower.

Save the flak tower. Save the flak tower!

[SharpRightTurn]

“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,”

Any Section 8 housing? Pawn shops? Liquor stores?

[Fresh Wind]

LOL!

[Vaduz]

It’s worse it abuses the use of ugly looks like it’ll crumble before it’s finished.