Obama likens the gilded White House to a Cheesecake Factory; Trump, the White House and the chain's ex-designer answer
A campaign-trail jab turned a restaurant chain's famously ornate dining rooms into a political argument; the report has every side's words.
At a rally in Cleveland on Saturday, ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, former President Barack Obama said President Donald Trump had the White House "looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory" because of all the gold, The National News Desk reports.
Trump answered on Monday at Joint Base Andrews: "For you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory — that just shows why you were a lousy president," adding that walls "hadn't been cleaned for years." The White House's X account posted a mock menu poking fun at the chain's roughly 20-page, 250-item menu, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ate lunch at the Washington, D.C., restaurant and criticized Obama.
Rick McCormack, the Cheesecake Factory's former vice president of design, told CNN he found the comparison "a little bit sad" and called it "the pettiness of politics." The report notes that since returning to office Trump has torn down the East Wing for a ballroom, paved over the Rose Garden and added gold-leaf fixtures to the Oval Office.
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The Cheesecake Factory
After exploring Cheesecake Factory's longtime designer calls Obama White House jab 'pettiness of politics', for the company behind the décor, read The Cheesecake Factory.
Wikipedia profiles the American restaurant chain and cheesecake distributor, which operates about 370 full-service restaurants under its own and other brands.
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