Trump Responds to Obama on White House Renovations

And now they say, "Oh, whoa, Barack Obama's gonna 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 his speech was to say,

"Isn't it terrible that Donald

Trump spends a lot of his

time..." Very little time.

I do it very good. I'm really

good at real estate

and fixing things.

I fix things very good,

very beautifully, and it's-- I always feel

beautiful and

inexpensive, which is a good

combination if you can do it.

But I can do it naturally. 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? The place.

No, he said, "This

isn't a Cheesecake Factory.

Can you believe it?" Which is a very successful company.

This isn't a-- He doesn't

like successful companies.

But, you know, he was very

critical about me because I spend

time.

And if you would've seen the White House, I took over the White House, and it was

in horrible condition.

I don't wanna use a terrible word.

It was in horrible condition. Uh, the

plaster was falling off the exterior.

You know, you have an exterior coat. The 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 or five

windows where literally the

ornamentation was up on one side and had fallen off or half fallen off

on the other, and I

fixed it. We made a mold of the good one,

and we put it on the

other one, and we got it all beautiful.

And then we skim coated with

an exterior plaster that's phenomenal, the entire

exterior with the best

artisans you've ever seen.

And we delicately, one thing

after, we took a tile that was

broken. That was, I mean,

I don't wanna say from Home Depot,

but it does come from

a box, and this, not for the White

House, and it was badly broken in main areas.

Cindy Hyde can tell you, and Roger can tell you, like,

the white marble now

going in, we have the most beautiful marble,

the most beauti-- It w-- It's not

money. It's peanuts. But the White House

is now in better shape than it

was in seventeen ninety-two when it was built, right?

And then I put in a really beautiful masterpiece.

The heliport is a masterpiece. It's

got-- In fact, they

were gonna sue me 'cause I

get sued on everything. I get sued.

But it was so good, they dropped the suit.

They didn't sue.

But the heliport is a masterpiece because the

helicopters, you know, very expensive,

good machines, were forced to land

in grass. And when it was

wet, it was muddy.

And helicopters that cost a hundred million dollars

that are very heavy aren't

supposed to be landing in mud. They're supposed to be landing on a

helipad.

So we built a magnificent

helipad with the eagle of the

United States carved on top.

Did anybody see pictures of it? Did you see pictures of it? People,

people love it.

And for a hundred fifty years, they've wanted to have a-- Not me.

I won't get to use it very much. It'll be finished.

I'll have it for six months or something,

but it's not for me.

This is for the presidents. This is for the future.

We built the most magnificent ballroom.

We built the most magnificent

ballroom you've ever seen. It's

under construction.

It's ahead of schedule. And,

and, you know, they say he

wants a ballroom for himself.

I won't get to use, you know,

the f-- I would've done in the first term,

but I was

under siege by the radical lunatics. You

know, there were--

So I didn't have time.

I didn't have time. But they protected

me, but I didn't have time.

But, uh, we are gonna soon have. And you know what it is?

The exterior windows are bulletproof.

This thick.

The roof has steel on it. This thick.

Drone-proof, missile-proof.

You have a safe place for your presidents

and for your

ca-- I mean, it's, it's a... And it's a beautiful thing.

And it fits like a gl- But, but,

but Barack, Barack Hussein,

he didn't talk about that. He

really didn't talk about all that st--

He talked

about the ballroom that... He

spends all his time thinking about the

ballroom.

He should be thinking about-- No,

I should be thinking about terminating the

JCPOA,

which I did a long time ago, thank God.

The worst, stupidest deal I've ever seen.