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So, how does the Cheesecake Factory play this?

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Barack Obama says Donald Trump has “the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has lunch for reporters to see … at a Cheesecake Factory.

Trump fires back at Obama.

What’s the Cheesecake Factory’s strategy?

I was reading through coverage of the report by House Judiciary Committee Democrats on Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump — more on that later — but there was no getting past the Cheesecake Factory.

The New York Times: Obama’s ‘Cheesecake Factory’ Jab Rankles Trump on Mississippi Campaign Stop

The Hill: Trump fires back at Obama’s Cheesecake Factory jab

The Washington Post: Trump defends White House redecorating — and Cheesecake Factory — from Obama’s mocking

USA Today: Obama‘s Trump jab pulls Cheesecake Factory into politics

Esquire: The Cheesecake Factory Isn’t the Symbol of Flyover America That Right-Wing Pundits Think It Is

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