Trump Offers To Help Obama With Presidential Library's 'disaster'

President Donald Trump connected Tuesday offered to thief retired pinch nan improvement of nan Obama Presidential Center, which has been plagued by immense costs overruns and delays, pinch nan project’s clasp of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies drafting important attraction recently.

Trump, who reshaped metropolis skylines pinch towering skyscrapers passim his business career, linked DEI to nan problems astatine nan monolithic Chicago project, which has seen costs spiral from an first $350 cardinal to $830 cardinal successful 2021, pinch nary caller updated figures available. 

"Look, President Obama, if he wanted help, I'd springiness him thief because I'm a really bully builder and I build connected time, connected budget. He's building his room successful Chicago. It's a disaster," Trump said astatine nan White House alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

President Donald Trump connected Tuesday offered to thief retired pinch nan improvement of nan Obama Presidential Center, which has been plagued by immense costs overruns and delays. The task has embraced diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg, left, Fox News Digital, center, Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images, right.)

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Trump was speaking astir nan Biden administration’s CHIPS Act -- passed to boost home semiconductor investigation and manufacturing - and its DEI provisions erstwhile he pivoted to nan Obama Presidential Center. 

"[Obama] said thing to nan effect, ‘I only want DEI, I only want woke,’" Trump said. "He wants woke group to build it. Well, he sewage woke group and they person monolithic costs overruns. A occupation is stopped. I don't know, it's a disaster. And I don't for illustration that happening because it's bad for nan presidency that a point for illustration that should happen. He's sewage a room that's a disaster."

Construction is still nether measurement astatine nan 19.3-acre tract which will dwell of a 225-foot-tall museum, a integer library, convention facilities, a gymnasium and a regulation-sized NBA court. 

From nan outset, nan task touted "ambitious goals" for definite building diversity quotas, pinch its contracts allocated to "diverse suppliers," 35% of which were required to beryllium minority-based enterprises (MBEs).

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A $40.75 cardinal racially charged suit revenge earlier this twelvemonth by a number contractor against nan project’s structural technologist shined a spotlight connected nan DEI-driven facet of nan project. The structural engineers claimed nan number contractor lacked capable qualifications and acquisition to execute its work, resulting successful delays.

Trump connected Tuesday said Obama was paying for prioritizing DEI complete meritocracy. 

"And he wanted to beryllium very politically correct and he didn't usage good, hard, tough, mean building workers that I emotion Marco," Trump said, switching into his trademark deeper reside while addressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 

Obama Presidential Center aerial changeable successful March.  (Fox News Digital)

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"I emotion those building workers but he didn't want building workers. He wanted group that ne'er did it earlier and he's sewage a disaster successful his hands. Many millions of dollars complete fund and I would emotion to thief him pinch it aliases personification other I could urge professionals, but it was not built successful a master manner."

Emily Bittner, nan vice president of communications astatine nan nonprofit Obama Foundation, said Trump’s remarks were not based successful facts and that nan halfway itself is not progressive successful nan lawsuit, nor did it hold nan timeline of nan installation which is group to unfastened successful 2026. The Obama Foundation oversees nan center’s improvement and will besides beryllium housed astatine nan halfway erstwhile it opens. 

"Everyone who sees nan Obama Presidential Center is blown distant by its beauty, standard and nan measurement it will beryllium an economical motor for Chicago and a beacon of dream for nan world," Bittner told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "We look guardant to welcoming each visitors to nan 19.3-acre field adjacent spring, to acquisition a statesmanlike halfway that not only honors nan Obamas’ legacy but besides lifts up nan adjacent procreation of leaders."

The Obama Presidential Center is scheduled to unfastened successful 2026 having initially meant to unfastened successful 2021. (Fox News Digital)

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Bittner said nan hundreds of workers connected tract each time are a testament to nan center’s advancement and added that nan task is being funded privately and not by nan taxpayer. 

The room astatine nan halfway will beryllium a integer 1 and not a beingness 1 for illustration different statesmanlike libraries have, which are federally funded and person size restrictions. 

Obama’s existent statesmanlike room is successful Hoffman Estates successful nan northwest of Chicago and is expected to move to College Park successful Maryland later this year.