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Morning Joe panel howls at GOP's 'desperate' Cheesecake Factory meltdown
What happened
AlterNet reports that Republicans attacked former President Barack Obama over a campaign joke comparing President Donald Trump’s ornate White House décor to Saddam Hussein opening a Cheesecake Factory. Obama’s target was Trump’s gold-plated aesthetic and governing priorities, but Republican critics recast the remark as contempt for Americans who eat at the restaurant chain.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire ridiculed that interpretation as a bad-faith diversion. The discussion also covered Obama’s criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his…
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