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USA: Barack Obama slams Donald Trump in final midterm push

France 2429 October 2026, 12:28 UTCUnited States of America

Just five days before the US midterm elections, former president Barack Obama took aim at President Donald Trump. He commented on the reaction of Trump's administration to a joke he had made the day before. "He was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments", Obama said. "They mobilized a whole-of-government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke." As the election is getting closer, polls point to a possible Democratic majority in the House.

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