Obama takes shots at the Trump administration following the ‘cheesecake factory’ joke [SOUND]

# Former US president Barack Obama has mocked president Donald Trump administration’s response to his joke comparing the White House’s renovations to “Saddam Hussein opening a cheesecake factory”. Obama criticised the gold decor changes Trump has made to the official residence since his return to office. Speaking at a Democratic Party rally in Georgia ahead of the midterm elections, Obama said the administration mobilised a government-wide response to the joke rather than addressing his criticism: