A Cheesecake Factory joke fuels Trump and Obama's back-and-forth before midterms
With a week to go until the 2026 midterm elections, you'd be forgiven for thinking that President Trump and former President Barack Obama were running against each other this year. While campaigning for Democrats in Ohio over the weekend, Obama mocked the various renovation projects that Trump has been overseeing at the White House, prompting a pointed response from the president and his administration. "I don't know if you've noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations," Obama told the crowd in Cleveland. "He should be on HGTV. Guy's building a ballroom that's bigger than the…
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