Obama learns what people really think about his very ugly presidential position – uptight
“There was a wonderful looking tower. It was designed by ancient builders, who refined the Ring of Isengard, and yet it seemed something not made by men, but torn from the bones of the earth in the ancient torments of the hills.’
Tolkien’s description of Orthanc, from The Road to Isengard, comes to mind upon first looking at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. You can almost imagine Saruman standing atop the tower, sending his Uruk-hai legions to war against Rohan at the castle of Helm’s Deep.
Maybe you prefer science fiction, and imagine Darth Sidious laughing as he tells a shocked Luke Skywalker that this Death Star is a fully functioning battle station.
Whether it’s Middle Earth or a galaxy far, far away, the forlorn-looking piece of rock bearing the former President’s name seems to remind everyone who sees it of something, and none of it is very good.
Except for Barry, he seems to really like the place. He recently took to social media to brag a bit about the progress being made, posting a video of himself, wearing a hard hat and safety glasses, supervising construction. Politicians love to wear costumes, don’t they?
He watches:
When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, it will be a center for change — a place where people from around the world come together, draw inspiration, and take what they’ve learned back to their communities. https://t.co/gW6UCYBCAJ pic.twitter.com/U92thHbAUL
– Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 18, 2025
We found it interesting that he dropped “hope” when he called the center, which will be the place that bears the record of his presidential legacy, the “Center of Change.” Could it be that he has even given up hope that history will remember him well?
This may explain why he built a presidential library in the shape of a garbage can.
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Was this your 👇 prototype? pic.twitter.com/EveAVmekke
— GinnyM 🇺🇸🙏✝️ Trump won – Carrie Leek Won (@PatriotXV11) October 18, 2025
– James Mixter (@MixterJames) October 18, 2025
The garbage can comparisons are apt given that most of Obama’s policies, from the Iran nuclear deal to Obamacare, were actually garbage.
Looks great, and a perfect depiction of your presidency pic.twitter.com/G8OHSK6B8l
– Corn Pop (@RealC0rnP0p) October 18, 2025
Others, like Twitchy favorite James Woods, see the structure’s eyesore design as a perfect depiction of Obama’s legacy.
For starters, they call it a “centre,” not a library, which is understandable given the dismal illiteracy rate among its most ardent followers. https://t.co/Obs0ZY0sUA
-James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 18, 2025
Neo-fascist architecture. https://t.co/Obs0ZY0sUA
-James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 18, 2025
I fixed it up here, and I knew it looked like an old socialist building from the Cold War! pic.twitter.com/rOTr8C1mkp
— KAG3-CO (@Kag3C) October 18, 2025
These really hit the socialist nail on the head, but we preferred the more imaginative and imaginative depictions. Here are a few of our favorites.
Tolkien references mentioned above.
You mean like this? pic.twitter.com/Y3htbacWId
– Cynic Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 18, 2025
Behold, Barack Dor! pic.twitter.com/eg5XGmjArV
-Stinkeye (@thestinkeye) October 18, 2025
What is more correct: destroying the republic from within. pic.twitter.com/1TVzN0IaSR
— ⚡️PepperJack⚡️ (@mmullins001) October 18, 2025
We used an Isengard reference, and these guys went straight to Mordor, but we have to admit, an all-seeing eye on top of the building would make it more interesting, if not less ugly.
We haven’t forgotten the Galactic Empire.
– Funny moments (@moment_mirthful) October 18, 2025
Unless the Rebel Alliance stops you! pic.twitter.com/Cjail2YoSt
– Izengabe (@Izengabe_) October 18, 2025
— Matt Idea Store (@MattsIdeaShop) October 18, 2025
Very funny pic.twitter.com/b3sqKqmuvU
– Jake Thirteenth 🏴☠️ (@JakeThirteenth) October 18, 2025
We wonder if Darth Vader has ever tried deep dish?
The literary and popular culture references did not end there. One creative X user marked the unattractive edifice as the entrance to Hell on Earth.
Give up hope all of you who enter here.
Final shape pic.twitter.com/tU7ufBSPZQ
— 𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖈𝖔 𝕵𝖆𝖈k 🇺🇸 (@CalicoTheJack) October 18, 2025
Who knows, maybe they’ll hire Virgil as a tour guide?
-Swato (@swatomatto) October 18, 2025
Where’s Sigourney Weaver when you need her?
For people who were too young to remember Barry trying to hand our sovereignty over to the UN or redistribute our economy into oblivion, there are some posts for you too.
It looks like Squidward’s house. pic.twitter.com/ekW3JjFssJ
– Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 (@CieloBonit) October 18, 2025
The entire project would have been better off if it had been built in a pineapple under the sea.
Or, Perry the Platypus makes his way through the maze of the Obama Center to battle the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz and save the world.
It’s hideous
An aesthetic blight on the neighborhood pic.twitter.com/CGkd2uRTIg
– Ben Petersen (@bennpetersen) October 18, 2025
Super villain’s lair pic.twitter.com/xUdjVzgBJg
— Mostly harmless (@harmless_human) October 18, 2025
Then, of course, there are the residents of Chicago’s South Side who will have to look at this polished turd for the rest of their lives.
Here’s what a few of them think:
Chicagoans think he’s ugly, bropic.twitter.com/VwyBhuLc3J
– Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 18, 2025
No matter what you think of Obama or his presidency, there’s no denying that the building is hideous. A skyscraper sized outbuilding in the middle of a perfectly beautiful park.
suitable.
I was 💩 President of America. pic.twitter.com/zKRiTTiHgt– Annie J (@annie_j04) October 18, 2025
The Obama Presidential Center is scheduled to open next year, and will serve as the final ugly stain on Barry’s presidential legacy.
On the bright side, if President Trump gets his way and cracks down on crime in Chicago, traveling there will be much less dangerous than the road to Isengard.
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