President Donald Trump has pushed back after former President Barack Obama mocked his White House renovations, joking that the gold-heavy decor looks like "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory". Trump defended the extensive restoration work as a long-overdue preservation effort, brushing off the jab as politically motivated.
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Trump: Barack Obama is going to start campaigning, and he’s not even campaigning. Tell him he’s not campaigning about me. Maybe he’ll go home.
But he came in yesterday, and he made a speech, and part of the speech was to say, isn’t it terrible that Donald Trump spends a lot of his time—very little time—I’m really good at fixing things, I fix things very good.
Usually, I always build beautiful and inexpensive, which is a good combination. But I can do it natural. It’s a natural thing. It actually relaxes me.
"Donald Trump spends a lot of his time fixing up the White House." Isn’t that a nice thing to do? That place. No, he said this isn’t a Cheesecake Factory. Can you believe it? Which is a very successful company. He doesn’t like success.
But you know, he was very critical about me because I spend time. And if you would have seen the White House—I took over the White House, and it was in horrible condition. I don’t want to use a terrible word. It was in horrible condition.
The plaster was falling off the exterior. Plaster was falling off. The paint was no good. A lot of the beautiful ornamentation that they have around the windows—I mean, they had four, five windows where literally the ornamentation was up on one side, and it had fallen off, or half fallen off on the other. And I fixed it.
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