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highplainsdem

(63,419 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:24 PM 7 hrs ago

Obama Foundation invites Trump to visit presidential library after he calls it a 'disaster' and compares to trash can

Source: Independent

President Donald Trump has derided the Obama Presidential Library as over budget, called its construction a “disaster” and compared it to a trash can. Now, the former president’s foundation is extending an invitation to arguably its most vocal critic.

Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, who served as a senior adviser in the Obama administration, told USA Today June 3 that the center would welcome Trump to view the center for himself.

“Judge for yourself,” Jarett said during a preview of the center last week. “When our visitors come, they will see a spectacular campus… If [Trump] would like to come and visit it himself, we would welcome him and give him a tour.”

The Independent has asked the White House for comment.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/obama-foundation-trump-visit-b2991335.html

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Vinca

(54,457 posts)
1. I hope the Obama Foundation knows the extra cost this will entail with the fumigation after Trump leaves.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:26 PM
7 hrs ago

And how do you remove the smell of sulphur?

wcmagumba

(6,733 posts)
2. Good on the Obama Foundation...Of course there is no chance in Hell that TSF will bother to go, just runs his pie hole.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:27 PM
7 hrs ago

Deuxcents

(27,936 posts)
4. A stroke of genius! I'd be real surprised if he actually showed up but just the invite is pure brilliance
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:41 PM
7 hrs ago

riversedge

(81,857 posts)
5. My guess is that Trumpy will show up and gush all over it--in hopes of getting some votes in November
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:58 PM
6 hrs ago

Just my guess.

But I am glad that the Obama folks extended the invite---It is the polite thing to do.

fujiyamasan

(2,110 posts)
10. He wants to be loved but knows he'll never get it from anyone
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:14 PM
3 hrs ago

Wasn’t it Carter’s funeral where he invited Obama to go golfing with him at Mar a Lago?

Obama’s probably thinking, yeah fuck this guy.

louis-t

(24,675 posts)
6. He is so jealous of Obama.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:11 PM
5 hrs ago

He will never be loved like Obama, he will never be as popular or as smart. Or as good-looking.

OAITW r.2.0

(32,839 posts)
8. That a black competent President, loved everywhere,is more popular than he can never be.....has to be ping-ponging thru
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:54 PM
4 hrs ago

his cranium.

HighFired49

(528 posts)
11. It's best if he doesn't go
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:24 PM
3 hrs ago

It's probably best that Dump doesn't go to the Obama Library. He would probably just double down on his first lie of it being a "trash can", or say that it's even worse than he thought originally. There's no way that he will say anything complimentary about a black person, especially President Obama.

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