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Obama mocks Trump’s government-wide response to Cheesecake Factory remark ahead of US midterms

Former US president Barack Obama on Wednesday mocked President Donald Trump for mobilising a government-wide response to his earlier remark that Trump had “got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory ”. “The White House even called the Secretary of Treasury,” Obama remarked, as he continued his campaign ahead of the congressional races in the US. Obama quipped, “This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who’s supposed to be figuring out how to ma