WATCH: Obama slams Trump for getting mad at his Cheesecake Factory comment
The former president took issue with how President Donald Trump responded to his joke about "the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory."
During a United for Georgia campaign rally on October 28, former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump's response to a joke Obama made regarding the White House decor. Obama, who remarked that the White House looked as if Saddam Hussein had opened a Cheesecake Factory, stated that the administration mobilized a whole government response to the joke. The Guardian US reported that Obama characterized Trump and his associates as "not serious people."
In addition to the comments regarding the White House, New Voice of Ukraine reported that Obama criticized Trump's Ukraine policy, accusing the White House of yielding to Vladimir Putin.
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