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President Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of former President Barack Obama as he continues an intense campaign rally schedule ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Speaking at a rally in Mississippi, Trump pushed back against Obama's remarks mocking his focus on White House renovations, defending the changes as necessary to preserve and maintain the historic residence. However, Trump appeared to struggle with his voice during the speech, which was shorter than his usual campaign rallies. The public exchange highlights the growing political tensions between Trump and Obama as both figures campaign around the midterm elections, with control of Congress at stake.

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00:00And I'll give you one more.
00:03And I really don't have to say that much anymore, you know.
00:06I should save my voice.
00:11Because, because, Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him?
00:18He's a man that yesterday, you know, he campaigned to sparse crowds, very sparse, very few people showed up.
00:23So he fought me on, he fought me with Crooked Hillary, came in, campaigned, he said, Donald Trump will never
00:32be president.
00:33He fought me with Crooked, he fought me with Crooked Hillary, that didn't work out well.
00:40And he fought me with Kamala, that didn't work out well.
00:47And now they say, oh, whoa, Barack Obama is going to start campaigning.
00:51And he's not even campaigning.
00:52Tell him he's not campaigning about me, maybe he'll go home.
00:55But he came in yesterday, and he made a speech.
00:59And part of his speech was to say, isn't it terrible that Donald Trump spends a lot of his time,
01:04very little time.
01:05I do it very good.
01:05I'm really good at real estate and fixing things.
01:08I fix things very good, very beautifully.
01:11I always build beautiful and inexpensive, which is a good combination if you can do it.
01:16But I can do it naturally.
01:17It's a natural thing.
01:18It actually relaxes me.
01:20Donald Trump spends a lot of his time fixing up the White House.
01:25Isn't that a nice thing to do, that place?
01:30No.
01:35He said, this isn't a Cheesecake Factory, can you believe it, which is a very successful company.
01:41He doesn't like successful companies.
01:43But, you know, he was very critical about me because I spend time.
01:49And if you would have seen the White House, I took over the White House, and it was in horrible
01:54condition.
01:54I don't want to use a terrible word.
01:56It was in horrible condition.
02:00The plaster was falling off the exterior.
02:02You know, you have an exterior coat.
02:04The plaster was falling off.
02:06The paint was no good.
02:08A lot of the beautiful ornamentation that they have around the windows.
02:12I mean, they had four or five windows where literally the ornamentation was up on one side and had fallen
02:18off or half fallen off on the other.
02:21And I fixed it.
02:23We made a mole of the good one, and we put it on the other one.
02:27And we got it all beautiful.
02:34And then we skim-coated with an exterior plaster that's phenomenal.
02:39The entire exterior with the best artisans you've ever seen.
02:42And we delicately, one thing after, we took a tile that was broken that was, I mean, I don't want
02:50to say from Home Depot, but it does come from a box.
02:53And it's not for the White House.
02:54And it was badly broken in main areas.
02:57Cindy Hyde can tell you, and Roger can tell you, like the white marble now going in.
03:02We have the most beautiful marble.
03:04It's not money, it's peanuts, but the White House is now in better shape than it was in 1792, when
03:14it was built.
03:15Right?
03:21Then I put in a really beautiful masterpiece.
03:24The heliport is a masterpiece.
03:27In fact, they were going to sue me because I get sued on everything.
03:30I guess, but it was so good, they dropped the suit.
03:34They didn't sue.
03:34But the heliport is a masterpiece because the helicopters, you know, very expensive, good machines, were forced to land in
03:43grass.
03:44And when it was wet, it was muddy.
03:47And helicopters that cost $100 million, that are very heavy, aren't supposed to be landing in mud.
03:54They're supposed to be landing on a helipad.
03:57So we built a magnificent helipad with the eagle of the United States carved on top.
04:04Did anybody see pictures of it?
04:05Did you see pictures of it?
04:07People love it.
04:10And for 150 years, they've wanted to have, not me, I won't get to use it very much.
04:16It'll be finished.
04:17I'll have it for six months or something.
04:19But it's not for me.
04:20This is for the president.
04:21This is for the future.
04:22We built the most magnificent ballroom.
04:27We built the most magnificent ballroom you've ever seen.
04:30It's under construction.
04:31It's ahead of schedule.
04:33And you'll see, he wants a ballroom for himself.
04:36I won't get to use it.
04:37You know, I would have done it the first time.
04:39But I was under siege by the radical lunatics.
04:42You know, they would.
04:43So I didn't have time.
04:44I didn't have time.
04:45But they protected me.
04:47But I didn't have time.
04:48But you're going to soon have, and you know what it is?
04:53The exterior windows are bulletproof, this thick.
04:56The roof has steel on it, this thick.
04:58Drone-proof, missile-proof.
05:01You'll have a safe place for your presidents and for your cabinet.
05:04I mean, it's a beautiful thing.
05:06And it fits like that.
05:10But Barack is saying, he didn't talk about that.
05:12He really didn't talk about all that.
05:14He talked about the ballroom, that he spends all his time thinking about the ballroom.
05:18He should be thinking about, no, I should be thinking about terminating the JCPOA, which
05:23I did a long time ago, thank God.
05:25The worst, stupidest deal I've ever seen.
05:28And I said, what a terrible thing to say.
05:31So I said today for the press, I said, look, tell Obama the following.
05:37The White House is a symbol of America.
05:40And when it's dirty, filthy, dirty, and broken, when the windows are cracked, when the exterior
05:49monument, they call them monuments on the outside, when they're good on one side but missing
05:55on the other side of a window, people notice that.
05:59People know, I used to notice it.
06:00I came in, 20 years ago, I came into the White House and it was in, I was surprised.
06:05I looked, I said, man, this place is in bad shape.
06:07It really is.
06:08You know, nobody's really done it.
06:10It's been a long time.
06:12It was open, 1792.
06:15And I made up for lost time because we did a job.
06:18It's actually in better shape now than when it was built, actually, and much and more beautiful.
06:26And I didn't take any time.
06:28And I'd literally do it when I walk home from the Oval.
06:31I'd walk, I'd look up, I'd say, boy, that wall is really bad.
06:34Let's go.
06:34We got to fix it, fellas.
06:35And I'm very talented people.
06:37They have a great touch.
06:39You know, they'd pay in the past.
06:41They'd have a big crack from a truck that backed into it, into a column, a big crack.
06:47You know what they'd do?
06:48They'd paint it.
06:49They'd paint the crack.
06:50And you'd see it 30 years later.
06:52Just it was in terrible shape.
06:54But the White House represents our country.
06:57And that has to be pristine.
06:59And I would try and explain that to a guy like Obama, but he wouldn't understand.
07:04He doesn't.
07:05He doesn't understand.
07:07The White House has to be clean, pristine, beautiful.
07:10It can't have cracks in the column.
07:12It can't have big blotches of stone laying outside on the ground from 30 years ago.
07:20Some of it, believe it or not, some of it, not much.
07:23Some would lay there for years.
07:25And nobody took care of it.
07:27Nobody loved it like I do.
07:28Nobody loved it.
07:29And now the White House is in beautiful shape.
07:33And I think maybe, what do you think, Roger?
07:35I think maybe with all of the symbols, you got the Capitol building.
07:39I don't think any, to me, I don't think any building represents our country more so than that gorgeous, beautiful
07:47White House, to me.

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