About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Obama roasts Trump after White House response to cheesecake factory joke — IN FULL from The Independent, published October 30, 2026. The transcript contains 615 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"this is true this is a fact i'm not making this up he the president of the united states is spending time super gluing gold medallions to the mantle in the oval office i am not making this up he is literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war and trying to deal with out of control..."
[0:00] this is true this is a fact i'm not making this up he the president of the united states is spending
[0:08] time super gluing gold medallions to the mantle in the oval office i am not making this up he is
[0:18] literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war and trying to deal with out of
[0:27] control prices now now now look i i heard i i heard the president was not happy when i i joked over
[0:41] the weekend that he's got the white house looking like saddam hussein opened a cheesecake factory
[0:48] and and and listen first of all let me get this on the record i am the father of two daughters
[1:00] do you think i could have survived their childhood without going to the cheesecake factory i lived
[1:11] at chuck e cheese and california pizza kitchen and the cheesecake factory that was my jam for about
[1:19] a decade of course the real problem is price has gotten so high a lot of folks can barely afford to
[1:29] go out to eat so you would think that this administration would be spending time worrying
[1:37] about that but that was the interesting thing about how the administration responded to the
[1:46] speech i gave the other day they did not dispute what i said about them being directly responsible
[1:53] for rising prices they did not argue with that they did not deny terrorists were contributing to higher
[2:01] costs for families they didn't say anything about that i accused this administration based on the facts
[2:10] that they were engaging in unprecedented levels of corruption they didn't say anything about that
[2:18] the president wasn't even mad about the saddam hussein comparison that part didn't bother him
[2:28] but he was very upset about the cheesecake factory comments he took great umbrage he said i didn't
[2:42] understand the work of the artisans in the white house and they mobilized this this is this was
[2:52] this i mean it's all crazy but this was the really crazy part they mobilized a whole of government
[3:00] response to that joke not to inflation but to that joke though the white house even called the secretary
[3:12] of the treasury this is the man who is in charge of the economy the person who's supposed to be figuring
[3:20] out how to make your life more affordable the guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation
[3:28] and and reduce interest rates they told him he should hold a press conference in front of the cheesecake
[3:38] factory no y'all didn't see this this really happened and the and and and the treasury secretary
[3:54] he happens to be a former hedge fund manager worth half a billion dollars and he was out there in front of
[4:01] the cheesecake factory explaining how he ordered the delicious french dip cheeseburger instead of the
[4:11] egg rolls look this is not something i ever thought of like i inherited this major financial crisis i never
[4:31] called my treasury secretary tim geitner said man you got to go to harvey's order roast beef no cheese
[4:42] though that may look elitist what do you to everybody out there including the press i want you to
[4:53] understand this this is what i mean when i say these are not serious people they don't have solutions to
[5:03] actual problems so they'd rather have the media and you talking about the cheesecake factory that's the
[5:11] game they've been playing for the last two years just keep throwing distractions out there attacks
[5:18] fabrications phony outrage and hope that you won't notice that your bills are higher and your life
[5:28] is tougher except that okie doke will not work this time