– Sourced from Daily Mail
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump went ballistic after Barack Obama’s joke about his redecorations of the White House – saying his predecessor had left the home ‘filthy, dirty and broken.’
The president has hit back at Obama repeatedly after the Democrat joked Trump’s renovations had the White House ‘looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.’
Trump brought it up again during a rally in Mississippi on Monday night where he claimed Obama left the place a shambles. He said he told the press to tell Obama that ‘the White House is a symbol of America and when it’s filthy, dirty and broken, when the windows are cracked, when the exterior monuments on the outside are good on one side and cracked on the other side, people notice that.’
Trump added that he’d gone to the White House 20 years ago and was ‘surprised’ by the condition it was in.
‘This place is in bad shape, it really is. I made up for lost time because I did a job and it’s in better shape than it was built and more beautiful.’
He also dismissed the notion that he ‘spends all his time’ on renovations, saying he ‘literally’ does it while walking home from the Oval Office.
‘I’d walk, I’d look up, I’d say, “boy that wall is really bad, let’s go, we gotta’ fix it, fellas.” And we have really talented people, they have a great touch.’ Trump accused Obama of not liking ‘successful companies’ by making the comparison to the franchise. ‘‘I fix things very good, very beautifully and I always build beautiful and inexpensive. He said: “This isn’t a Cheesecake Factory,” can you believe it, which is a very successful company. He doesn’t like successful companies.’’
Trump similarly lashed out at Obama, long an inspiration for Trump’s rise to political power, when speaking to the press earlier Monday at Joint Base Andrews.
