Barack Hussein Obama announces the grand opening of his trash can "presidential center" in Chicago

[Cyber Liberty]

There is an honest-to-God name for this style of Architecture, and it fits:  Brutalist.

[Wingnut]

There is an honest-to-God name for this style of Architecture, and it fits:  Brutalist.

The only thing missing is Michele On the roof swatting at bi-planes like in King Kong.

[mountaineer]

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center!
Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more.
Tickets available at http://tickets.obama.org.
10:13 AM · May 6, 2026


Yes, we (trash) can!

[mystery-ak]

There's More Intriguing Merch for the Obama Presidential Center - Some With Eye-Popping Price Tags
By Nick Arama | 5:49 PM on May 09, 2026

We reported on former President Barack Obama's effort this week to pump up his presidential center, which is finally opening in June.

He advertised it on May 4th with "Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill. He also pitched it in an interview with Stephen Colbert.

It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the @ObamaFoundation on the @ColbertLateShow

.When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at http://tickets.obama.org.

As we can see from the clip, he's trying to make it a hub for promoting "hope" and "change."

I can't imagine there would be a lot of ordinary folks beating down the doors to visit. As we've noted, the main building is not exactly a beacon of attractiveness. It's just flat-out ugly. They're even selling a pin that's supposed to look like the building, and the pin is similarly ugly. Plus, you have to shell out $30 for the pin, which is just a gray blob of clay.

But it turns out they have other interesting things in the Center store.

One of the funniest was this necklace, which was priced at $390.

https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/2052781358401929245

It’s a timeless, hand-crafted accessory and a graceful nod to Mrs. Obama’s celebrated eye for fashion and her belief that our style is a powerful part of our story.

Her celebrated eye for fashion? They're kidding, aren't they?

They are even pitching these renewable energy kits for kids. Except, collectively, they add up to $460.

https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/2052781357298778626

more
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/05/09/more-on-obama-merch-n2202175

[mountaineer]

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
This Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about my mom, and all the lessons she taught me. I'm proud to honor her memory with the Ann Dunham Water Terrace at the Obama Presidential Center.
12:21 PM · May 10, 2026

Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
Obama’s mom Stanley Ann abandoned him by sending him at the age of 10 to live in America while she gallivanted with various men in Indonesia. Obama retaliated by not going to her bedside when she was dying of cancer, and skipping her funeral. That’s the real story.
1:50 PM · May 10, 2026

[Wingnut]

Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
Obama’s mom Stanley Ann abandoned him by sending him at the age of 10 to live in America while she gallivanted with various men in Indonesia. Obama retaliated by not going to her bedside when she was dying of cancer, and skipping her funeral. That’s the real story.
1:50 PM · May 10, 2026

His Mom was a whore.  Her mom raised the lil O'bastard and all he could do was disrespect her and call her a racist.

[mountaineer]

She also didn't care that he was being groomed by pedophile Marxist Frank Marshall Davis.

[Smokin Joe]

She also didn't care that he was being groomed by pedophile Marxist Frank Marshall Davis.

Might explain his baseball throwing style. He isn't a pitcher.

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
The photos are out, and they’re every bit as bad as the rumors suggested.

Leaked images of Barack Obama’s statue at his Presidential Library in Chicago have surfaced, and the results are exactly what you’d expect from a project built on DEI principles from the ground up. Obama reportedly insisted the statue be created by a black sculptor — and the final product looks like a rushed, low-effort disaster.



This is not AI and I wish it was!

Obama's statue at his library has been unveiled and it looks like Ron Howard.

https://www.usasupreme.com/leaked-photos-of-obamas-presidential-library-statue-and-arch-drop-it-looks-exactly-like-a-dei-disaster-just-as-youd-expect-he-insisted-on-a-black-sculptor/

[Mod2]

Topics merged

[libertybele]

It looks like a giant concrete milk carton.  The arch is misshaped and the statues of Barry and Michael are ridiculous. 

Of course to the liberals this will be the greatest presidential library ever made.

[mountaineer]

Obama Library subcontractor says his company is owed nearly $4M for work on Obama Center project.

https://twitter.com/jj_talking/status/2065901822678831335

[Wingnut]

Obama Library subcontractor says his company is owed nearly $4M for work on Obama Center project.

https://twitter.com/jj_talking/status/2065901822678831335

Dude you are white.  You ain't getting paid. 

[libertybele]

Dude you are white.  You ain't getting paid.

   That was my first thought -- he's not getting paid.   

[collins]

they are supposed to be cheap, they will stiff him in a heartbeat

There is an honest-to-God name for this style of Architecture, and it fits:  Brutalist.

Omg, you are right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

their examples look better than this center

[mystery-ak]

Unpaid contractors cloud Obama Center’s finish line

Subcontractors said they’re owed millions as the $850M presidential center prepares to open after years of cost overruns and delays

Jun 12, 2026, 4:15 PM CDT
By
TRD Staff



Contractors on the Obama Presidential Center say their invoices are going unpaid, reportedly missing millions in payments and jeopardizing the future of businesses.

The Obama Center has gone hundreds of millions over its original $300 million cost estimate. The 19-acre museum and library’s construction cost has ballooned over the years to a staggering $850 million, nearly tripling the projected budget.

African American Contractors Association president Omar Shareef said that a total of seven separate subcontractors have contacted him for help with pursuing missing payments in the past several months, according to Crain’s. Some of the contractors are owed seven figures. They’re willing to settle for less, as long as they can keep their businesses running.

“It’s to the point that they wished they had never done (the project),” Shareef told the outlet.

more
https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2026/06/12/obama-center-subcontractors-deal-with-unpaid-bills-as-opening-draws-closer/

[Cyber Liberty]

These contractors should be proud to be contributors to the great O'Bastard Museum!

[mountaineer]

The official trash can library portrait of Barry and Mooch is revealed. There isn't room enough in that monstrosity of an unpaid-for building to accommodate their egos.

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/2066514520109941210

[verga]

The official trash can library portrait of Barry and Mooch is revealed. There isn't room enough in that monstrosity of an unpaid-for building to accommodate their egos.

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/2066514520109941210

[DefiantMassRINO]

Wow, that's a brutalist's brutalist building.  That architect is in desperate need of psychiatric intervention.

[mountaineer]

Breitbart News
@BreitbartNews
Taxpayers could be left with a big tab if the Obama Presidential Center experiences financial trouble, because its foundation has not yet established a promised $470 million safety net to guard against a public bailout.
Story at Breitbart News
7:01 PM · Jun 15, 2026


Lawyerforlaws
@lawyer4laws
Called it.
The Dynamic Deadbeat Duo~ Obama & Valerie Jarrett - will once again creatively launder the costs of this monstrosity into the next Democrat spending spree.
Meanwhile, minority-owned subcontractors file for bankruptcy !
11:34 AM · Jun 16, 2026

[mountaineer]

Send in the clowns ...

FactPost
@factpostnews
Performers attending Obama's Presidential Center Opening Ceremony:
—Bruce Springsteen
—Stevie Wonder
—Bono and The Edge
—John Legend
—Christina Aguilera
—Marc Anthony
—Jennifer Hudson
—Eddie Vedder
—Common
—The Roots
—Tems
—Marsai Martin
4:33 PM · Jun 16, 2026

[Wingnut]

Send in the clowns ...

FactPost
@factpostnews
Performers attending Obama's Presidential Center Opening Ceremony:
—Bruce Springsteen
—Stevie Wonder
—Bono and The Edge
—John Legend
—Christina Aguilera
—Marc Anthony
—Jennifer Hudson
—Eddie Vedder
—Common
—The Roots
—Tems
—Marsai Martin
4:33 PM · Jun 16, 2026

Wait, what...no Chris Robinson of the Counting Crows?  I mean com'n Barak baby. he hate America just as much as you.

[mountaineer]

This grand opening is taking forever.

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.
I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson. ...

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/2067074268140085441

[DefiantMassRINO]

Only half of U2?  Why did Adam Clayton (bassist) and Lurry Mullen, Jr., (drummer) get left off the list?

All this for the ribbon cutting of the most brutalist Stalin-esque public building ever built?

Where's Blues Travelers and Hootie and the Blowfish?

[catfish1957]

I think more and more of America is coming to the realization that the 8 years of Bath House Barry was the starting point of political warfare in this country.

Between "hitting us low", and smug "elections have consequences" comments, he created an environment of political discourse that is now almost 20 years old, and will prob, hang around several more decades.

[Cyber Liberty]

Only half of U2?  Why did Adam Clayton (bassist) and Lurry Mullen, Jr., (drummer) get left off the list?

All this for the ribbon cutting of the most brutalist Stalin-esque public building ever built?

Where's Blues Travelers and Hootie and the Blowfish?

I'm wondering where Beyoncé is....did she have a falling out with the O'Bastards?

[mystery-ak]

Subcontractors say they’re owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center
Adamson Plumbing owner Mike Owen says his company is owed nearly $4M on the Chicago project
By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published June 17, 2026 3:32pm EDT

CHICAGO — The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses.

But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago’s South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center's grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.

A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center's defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses and local contractors grow through one of Chicago's highest-profile construction projects. Several of the complaints reviewed by Fox News Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that mission.

Among them is Adamson Plumbing, whose owner Mike Owen says is nearly $4 million in the red after years of work on the project.

"That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive," Owen said.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/subcontractors-say-theyre-owed-millions-face-financial-ruin-helping-build-obama-presidential-center

[mountaineer]

Well, she looks like a stretch of bad road. An angry stretch of angry bad road.


Michelle Obama: "Dreamers aren't Americans too. They are America. They are the beating heart of this country. They are us and we are them..."

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/2067665498662212020

[libertybele]

Well, she looks like a stretch of bad road. An angry stretch of angry bad road.


Michelle Obama: "Dreamers aren't Americans too. They are America. They are the beating heart of this country. They are us and we are them..."

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/2067665498662212020

 

[mountaineer]

Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson
As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.

The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago—a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt—Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."

Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences–often at $400,000 a shot—on their own false-consciousness shortcomings.

Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.
9:27 AM · Jun 18, 2026

[berdie]

Is this being funded by donations or tax payer dollars?

[Cyber Liberty]

Is this being funded by donations or tax payer dollars?

Good question! I do know he's stiffing the subcontractors in this project to the tune of Millions of dollars.  Subs O'Bastard insisted be minorities. Some are looking Bankruptcy in the face now.

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/2067668983529005311

[mystery-ak]

YIKES...

Valerie Jarrett Opens Obama Center Ceremony with Land Acknowledgment



Mariane Angela 18 Jun 2026

Former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett kicked off the groundbreaking ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday with a land acknowledgment, citing the Native American tribes historically rooted to the site.

Jarrett told attendees that organizers wished to “take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today,” listing the Native American tribes historically connected to the site.

“We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations,” Jarrett said.

Land acknowledgments have fast become standard practice across universities, government offices, and cultural events. Yet the custom increasingly faces sharp pushback, even from within Native communities. Indigenous scholars and activists frequently dismiss the statements as empty “performative” gestures that offer public relations points for diversity while providing zero tangible benefits or real land back to tribal nations.

After weathering years of lawsuits and local pushback regarding its Jackson Park footprint, the Obama Presidential Center has locked in its debut. A free, three-day community festival from June 19–21 will officially open the doors. The finished complex will serve as a museum, community center, and historical archive dedicated to former President Barack Obama’s two terms in the White House.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/18/valerie-jarrett-opens-obama-center-ceremony-with-land-acknowledgment/

[libertybele]

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/2067668983529005311

4 Presidents that we have endured.  The 'losing' order is pretty much correctly pictured with the biggest loser being Biden, then Obama and it's a toss up between Clinton and Bush.

[mountaineer]

If ValJar were not a lying sack of basura, she'd give the land back to the indigenous peepuls.

[Hoodat]

Is this being funded by donations or tax payer dollars?

Everything the Democrats do is funded by taxpayer dollars.  Everything.

[mountaineer]

Dr. Jebra Faushay
@JebraFaushay
One of these buildings was constructed during the late 1800s  and the other was recently created with all of the modern tools available.

[andy58-in-nh]

Damn, that's just plain ugly. And so is the building.

[rangerrebew]

Obamas Welcome Hollywood Elites, Famous Friends to Presidential Center Opening as Unpaid Subcontractors Claim Millions Owed
 
Warner Todd Huston18 Jun 2026

Former President Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle welcomed a long list of Hollywood celebrities, former president, and world leaders for the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, even as the Center has been engulfed in controversy for allegedly stiffing many black-owned building contractors for their construction fees.


The grand opening for Obama’s controversial and imposing Center in Chicago was a star-studded affair on Thursday, featuring performances from Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, The Roots, U2’s Bono and The Edge, and many more, Breitbart News reported.


The Obama Foundation also previously announced the entertainment lineup on Tuesday, with the grand opening set for Juneteenth in John Lewis Plaza following years of construction cost overruns and delays. Others on the lineup include, Christina Aguilera, Eddie Vedder, John Legend, Marc Anthony, Tems, Common, and Marsai Martin.

“This Grand Opening ceremony will be unlike any other — filled with music, performances, and hope,” said Valerie Jarrett, CEO of The Obama Foundation. “The Grand Opening Ceremony will reflect a spirit of inspiration and joy, with a big boost from the performers who are sharing their talent with us. We hope to inspire people everywhere to believe in their power to bring change home.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/06/18/obamas-welcome-hollywood-elites-famous-friends-to-presidential-center-opening-as-unpaid-subcontractors-claim-millions-owed/

[rangerrebew]

He didn't invite the sitting president to meet all his "friends" and join in the festivities?

[collins]

they are sure making a big deal about this fugly building with no windows. Weird as the Obamas.

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/RealFletch17/status/2067741491250794847

[Right_in_Virginia]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/2067991415905218921