Obama was not involved in the construction . Obama curated the books in the presidential reading room. He provided campaign memorabilia and presidential artifacts. The Obama Library has digitally collected Obama's presidential papers. Obama selected the chairs in the reading room. He is not a thief like Trump.
Subcontractors say they’re owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center
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I have actually never threatened it. I have only insrtructed.
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Define 'subcontractor' for us.The Obama Presidential Center was billed as a lasting legacy to former President Barack Obama, and its construction was touted as an ambitious model built with aggressive goals for minority-owned and local businesses.
But now, some of the very subcontractors who helped build the 19.3-acre campus on Chicago’s South Side say they are facing financial ruin as they race to recover millions of dollars they claim remain unpaid ahead of the center's grand opening Friday. Overall construction costs were reported to be $830 million in 2021, and have likely climbed past the $1 billion mark.
Subcontractors say they’re owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center
Subcontractors claim millions in unpaid losses from Obama Presidential Center construction as the Chicago project prepares to open on Juneteenth.www.foxnews.com
Will the left slam Obama for not paying
Nomad
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Lying shitbagas always.
Poor SO MAD says if you don't like the Obama bunker you're "screaming unrefined redneck taste in everything, including architecture".
Grok, is this accurate? "Obama was not involved in the construction" of the Obama Center.
Partially accurate, but misleading without context.
Barack Obama was not directly involved in the day-to-day physical construction work (e.g., he wasn't managing crews, operating equipment, or making on-site engineering decisions).
That's handled by the Obama Foundation (a nonprofit), the construction manager Lakeside Alliance (a joint venture including Black-owned firms), general contractors, and tradespeople.
However, Obama ...
- Vision and design: He worked with architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (who described him as a "very interesting [and] knowledgeable client"). He influenced the concept as a "living place" focused on civic engagement rather than a static monument, selected elements like colors and exhibit themes, and previewed installations.
- Groundbreaking and milestones: He and Michelle Obama participated in the 2021 groundbreaking. He visited the site multiple times (e.g., 2022 tour, 2024 for topping out the Museum Building at 225 feet, where he thanked workers and signed a beam; later visits in 2025).
- Oversight via the Foundation: As the public face and driving force behind the Obama Foundation, he helped with fundraising and high-level decisions. The ~$830–850 million project (privately funded) is explicitly the Obama Presidential Center.
In short, the literal claim ("not involved in the construction") holds if it narrowly means manual labor or contractor management.
But it downplays his substantial role as client, visionary, and ceremonial participant in what is fundamentally his presidential center.
Similar phrasing sometimes appears in defenses against criticisms of the project (e.g., costs, delays, or local impacts), but it’s an oversimplification. The Center opened in June 2026.
This is typical for presidential centers/libraries—they’re not built by the ex-president swinging a hammer but by foundations in their name.
Nomad
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My opinion of your redneck idiot taste in design, DONNA GENES.
Looks like I struck a nerve.
Nomad
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Exactly what it is.
You puke your ignorant opinion and I offer my opinion of your ignorant opinion.
You get mad and accuse me of imposing my personal views on others.
Hypocrite much?
You are a sock of the same pile of shit who posts as Dutch Uncle.
Incessantly - but you're too cowardly to follow through.
You don't even have authority over your own bowels. You don't give orders, cunt. You're a sleazy, cowardly little troll making death threats on the internet because a stranger dares have political opinions contrary to those of your fascist party.
You're mentally ill, impotent, and cowardly. You have no value in this universe - as you well know.
Oh look, Noballs has a new hero. Political violence is what you fascist filth live for - and Douche Duck promotes violence...
You have threatened constantly, Douche Duck.
Political violence is what fascist cunts like you are all about. Alas, you are a coward as well as being severely mentally ill.
You support the Insurrection, but you're too cowardly to personally attack federal police. ICE Agents. You're too much of a coward to even show up at the riots - you just sit home watching CCP Now and cheering as the Brown Shirts attack.
You have no purpose, no value in this universe.
You Communists are so childish.
Get on with it. We're all waiting.
Not one single time. I have instructed you to die, not threatened to kill you.
And we all wish you would get on with it.
More death threats from the cunt who is too cowardly to act.
I'm waiting on you to give it your best go. I just cleaned the Mossberg.
That is a death threat.
You're too cowardly of a cunt to act on it though. Best case is you spend the next 10 to 20 in federal prison.
Who is "we all," your fellow socks?
You have no purpose, no value in this universe. You know this.
Mess but it will do the job. Get on with it.