Obama Mocks Trump’s Cheesecake Factory Response and Criticizes Inflation

I heard the president was not happy

when I, I joked over the weekend that he's got the White House looking like

Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.

And, and, and listen,

fir- first of all, let me get this on the record.

I am the father of two daughters.

Yeah.

Do you think

I could have survived their childhood without going to the

Cheesecake Factory?

I lived at Chuck E. Cheese-

Yeah

... and California Pizza Kitchen-

... and the Cheesecake Factory. That was my jam for about a

decade.

Of course, the real problem is prices gotten so high,

a lot of folks can

barely afford to go out to eat.

So you would think that this administration would be spending

time worrying

about that.

No.

But

that, that was the interesting thing about how

the administration responded

to the speech I gave the other day. They did not

dispute

what I said about them being directly responsible for rising

prices. They did not argue with that.

They did not deny tariffs were contributing to

higher costs for families. They didn't say anything about that.

No.

I accused this administration based on the facts that

they were engaging in unprecedented levels of corruption.

They didn't say anything about that.

Yeah.

The president wasn't even mad

about the Saddam Hussein comparison.

That part didn't bother him.

But he was very upset

about the Cheesecake Factory comments.

He took great umbrage.

He said I didn't understand

the work of the artisans in the White House.

And they mobilized this, this is, this was, this...

I mean, it's all crazy, but this was the really crazy part.

They mobilized

a whole of government response to that joke.

Not to inflation, but to that joke.

The, the White House even

called the Secretary of the Treasury.

This is the man who is in charge of the economy,

the person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable,

the guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation

and, and reduce interest rates. They told him he

should

hold a press conference in front of The

Cheesecake Factory.

No, y'all didn't see this. This really happened.

And, and

the, and, and, and the treasury secretary, he happens to be

a former hedge fund manager worth half a billion dollars,

and he was out there in front of the Cheesecake Factory

explaining how he ordered the delicious French

dip cheeseburger-

... instead of the egg rolls.

Now, I... Look, I... This is not something I ever thought

of.

Like, I inherited this major financial crisis.

I never called my Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, said, "Man, you gotta go to

Arby's."

"Order roast beef.

No cheese, though. That may look elitist."

What do...

To, to everybody out there, including the press, I want,

I want you to understand

this.

This is what I mean when I say these are not serious people.

Yeah.

They don't have solutions to actual

problems, so they'd rather have the media and

you talking about the Cheesecake Factory.

That's the game they've been playing for the last two years.

Yeah.

Just keep throwing distractions out there,

attacks, fabrications-

Yeah

... phony outrage, and hope that you won't

notice that your bills are higher and your life

is tougher.

Yeah.