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WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW: OCOTOBER 30, 2026

Former President Obama knocked the White House response to his Cheesecake Factory jab at President Trump, calling the administration "not serious people." Campaigning in Georgia for Senator Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, Obama said officials mounted a government-wide response to a joke, not to inflation, though many families can barely afford to eat out. He had joked Trump's $900 million renovations made the White House look like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.

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