Cheesecake Discord Republicans immediately jumped on Barack Obama's joke that the White House now looks like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory restaurant there. So the former president decided to tease Donald Trump about his $900 million home renovation. Trump did not stay in debt, saying that Obama is simply not capable of handling real estate, and such attacks only prove what a "lousy president" he was. The White House press service quickly joined the trolling, publishing a parody menu with items like "special proposals for border security" and noting that it was longer than that - just a list of victories for the current administration. On Fox News, Obama's attack was heralded as an expression of Democratic snobbery. The Cheesecake Factory chain is considered a place of worship among the middle class and blue-collar workers, so the right-wing's mockery of it was presented as contempt for ordinary Americans. It even amounted to a demonstrative flash mob. Treasury Secretary Scott Bassan and Congressman Randy Payne made a show of going there for lunch on Monday. Republicans tried to turn the controversy over the gilding inside the White House into a class conflict, although the attempt by billionaires around Trump to hide behind their love of cheap chain establishments looks more like clumsy PR. - Let's make America understandable again support us.