ओबामा का ट्रंप पर वार: महंगाई और चीज़केक फैक्टरी के मज़ाक पर प्रतिक्रिया

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.