President Donald Trump took a jab at former President Barack Obama’s stalled presidential library project on Tuesday.
Social media users mocked Obama’s presidential library, comparing its architectural style to garbage bins, the Death Star, and other imposing monoliths in a viral thread. While Trump was taking questions from reporters at the White House, Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese asked the president if he had seen the Obama Presidential Library, to which he replied that it was “not too pretty.”
“He needs help,” Trump told Reese. “It’s not too pretty. No, but it’s closed, it’s stopped. They ran out of money.”
Trump said that Obama’s presidential project had turned into a confused mix between a library and a museum.
“He’s building a library slash museum … and usually they call it a library and museum. That’s the official name. And they’re stuck. And he wanted only women in DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] to build it. That’s what they got,” Trump said.
Social media users ridiculed Obama’s new presidential library after Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz compared its design to the Death Star. Cruz said that “locating the Death Star in Chicago was a bold move.”