• andallthat@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    No, but I bet we could be charged for treason for speaking against Cheesecake Saddam

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      14 hours ago

      Sorry to interrupt, but why the cheesecake? I just found it hilarious for some reason, but I’m not getting whether the cheesecake bears any hidden meaning I’m not getting.

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        2 hours ago

        The Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant chain. Its decor is intentionally over-the-top.

        Saddam Hussein lived a very extravagant lifestyle, even by dictators’ standards, and famously built himself palaces so overfilled with gold and precious things that instead of looking luxurious they looked tacky and in horrible taste.

        Obama joked that Trump’s White House looks like if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory (Trump and MAGA took it about as well as you can imagine).

        The brilliance of the joke is that, while being on the surface about interior design, Obama called Trump a narcissistic dictator getting rich by stealing from his own people. And clearly MAGAs choose to focus their response only on the Cheesecake part of the joke.

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          2 hours ago

          Thank you so much for explaining this! I felt like I really like the joke / name, but the context made it truly brilliant indeed!

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        10 hours ago

        Obama made a joke that the white house with the renovations under Trump (with all the gold and such) looks like as if Saddam opened a cheese factory. Of course the Republicans didn’t have any sense of humor…