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highplainsdem

(63,428 posts) Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:24 PM 23 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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Obama Foundation invites Trump to visit presidential library after he calls it a 'disaster' and compares to trash can (Original Post) highplainsdem 23 hrs ago OP

I hope the Obama Foundation knows the extra cost this will entail with the fumigation after Trump leaves. Vinca 23 hrs ago #1

Apparently he does actually smell like shit fujiyamasan 19 hrs ago #9

Will need a super smudging! electric_blue68 15 hrs ago #16

Good on the Obama Foundation...Of course there is no chance in Hell that TSF will bother to go, just runs his pie hole. wcmagumba 23 hrs ago #2

A stroke of genius! I'd be real surprised if he actually showed up but just the invite is pure brilliance Deuxcents 23 hrs ago #4

Has shithole seen the WH front yard lately.................... Lovie777 23 hrs ago #3

My guess is that Trumpy will show up and gush all over it--in hopes of getting some votes in November riversedge 23 hrs ago #5

He wants to be loved but knows he'll never get it from anyone fujiyamasan 19 hrs ago #10

It's really a clever way of NJCher 15 hrs ago #17

He is so jealous of Obama. louis-t 21 hrs ago #6

That a black competent President, loved everywhere,is more popular than he can never be.....has to be ping-ponging thru OAITW r.2.0 20 hrs ago #8

Pres Obama looks mighty sharp in a tan suit Seinan Sensei 15 hrs ago #15

trumpy dumpty prefers gaudy crap. pansypoo53219 20 hrs ago #7

It's best if he doesn't go HighFired49 19 hrs ago #11

We already know what his library looks like. Marcuse 18 hrs ago #12

Man, talk about a fucking dump.... Prof. Toru Tanaka 15 hrs ago #14

Where are the Crayons and Magic Markers? AZ8theist 14 hrs ago #18

Well played. Permanut 15 hrs ago #13

I think they're crazy for inviting him. AZ8theist 14 hrs ago #19

Vinca

(54,466 posts)

1. I hope the Obama Foundation knows the extra cost this will entail with the fumigation after Trump leaves.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:26 PM

23 hrs ago

And how do you remove the smell of sulphur?

fujiyamasan

(2,111 posts)

9. Apparently he does actually smell like shit

Reply to Vinca (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:12 PM

19 hrs ago

electric_blue68

(27,602 posts)

16. Will need a super smudging!

Reply to Vinca (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:47 AM

15 hrs ago

wcmagumba

(6,741 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.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:27 PM

23 hrs ago

Deuxcents

(27,939 posts)

4. A stroke of genius! I'd be real surprised if he actually showed up but just the invite is pure brilliance

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:41 PM

23 hrs ago

Lovie777

(24,071 posts)

3. Has shithole seen the WH front yard lately....................

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:38 PM

23 hrs ago

riversedge

(81,865 posts)

5. My guess is that Trumpy will show up and gush all over it--in hopes of getting some votes in November

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:58 PM

23 hrs ago

Just my guess.

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

fujiyamasan

(2,111 posts)

10. He wants to be loved but knows he'll never get it from anyone

Reply to riversedge (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:14 PM

19 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.

NJCher

(43,674 posts)

17. It's really a clever way of

Reply to riversedge (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:58 AM

15 hrs ago

pointing out that he was trashing the place without ever having seen it.

Obama: He's clever that way. I can also see this coming from Michelle.

Trump won't go and they know it.

louis-t

(24,675 posts)

6. He is so jealous of Obama.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:11 PM

21 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

Reply to louis-t (Reply #6)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:54 PM

20 hrs ago

his cranium.

Seinan Sensei

(1,678 posts)

15. Pres Obama looks mighty sharp in a tan suit

Reply to louis-t (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 8, 2026, 01:47 AM

15 hrs ago

TSF in a tan suit?
Geez, he’d look like the love child of Jabba the Hutt and a Cane Toad

pansypoo53219

(23,221 posts)

7. trumpy dumpty prefers gaudy crap.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:50 PM

20 hrs ago

HighFired49

(528 posts)

11. It's best if he doesn't go

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:24 PM

19 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.