Ex-President Obama is unloading on current President Trump, in support of Democrats vying to take back the Senate. He had some line about the Cheesecake Factory, which people thought was funny, for some reason. Why exactly? I’m not sure. Maybe you can tell me. Let’s watch.

“Like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.” Huh. I don’t get it? What’s the catch?

Saddam Hussein, may I remind you, was a reprehensible dictator of Iraq, who was overthrown by America, under Republican leadership. Obama, then a state senator, objected to this very thing, you may recall. If he didn’t like Hussein’s industrial policy, he certainly failed to speak up about it. But that’s fine, whatever. Now it’s a punch line.

Now he says Trump, who is carrying out much needed and entirely reasonable renovations of the White House, is akin to a dictator for that reason? Well that doesn’t make sense.

Let me remind you that every president has made changes to the White House grounds, and often they are needed.…