The Reactions To Obama's Post About His Presidential Center Are Hilarious

Posted • October 19, 2025: I don't know if you've seen anything about Barack Obama's presidential center. But if you didn't, he posted about it on Saturday. —— Barack Obama @BarackObama: “When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, it will be a hub for change — a place for people from all over the world to come together, get inspired, and take what they learn back to their own communities.” —— It's been a boondoggle now for some time. It is, in fact, the perfect representation of Barack Obama. Here's a Newsweek headline on the project: "Behind Schedule, Over Budget, and Mired in Lawsuits." https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3pvwSbWsAA8exF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 —— The local community was also unhappy with it or had concerns. The Obama Center – which has faced years of delays and lawsuits since breaking ground in September 2021 – will cover nearly 20 acres of the 540-acre Jackson Park and feature a museum, public library branch, athletic center, gardens and children’s play area.

While the privately funded project’s price tag has ballooned from its original $500 million budget, residents said they’ve also seen rents and property taxes skyrocket as construction nears completion. “Rents are going up fast,” Kyana Butler of Southside Together, one of at least three local activist groups that lobbied the Obama Foundation to better integrate the project into the surrounding neighborhood, told the Daily Mail. “A two-bedroom apartment that used to rent for $800 a month has already jumped to $1,800. Property taxes are going up so much that the owner of my building is saying she might just walk away. One resident called it a "monstrosity," taking away from the beautiful area that once was there. So much for the feelings of the locals. Guess those got lost in the narcissism.

But it's sort of hilarious that Obama is posting about it, standing there with Michelle, and admiring it, like it's something great, because quite frankly, it has to be one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen. "Let's bring change home," the video ends. That's a change, all right. But just like the change that Obama brought to the country, it's not looking good, like the gray ugliness of the buildings of the Soviet Union or a dystopian prison. Some posted videos with “Star Wars” X-wing fighters closing in on the library building, while others Photoshopped the structure sideways to replace the torsos of the massive AT-AT walkers from “The Empire Strikes Back.” —— One of these is the Obama Library and the other is a North Korean guard tower. https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1979903820885848443 (…)

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