Jay Black pieces together the Cheesecake Factory political uproar
The comedian puts Obama's original White House joke beside Trump's response and the follow-up that brought the Treasury secretary into it.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 402,601 views a day, 7.3 times a normal first day on this channel (55,350).
Barack Obama just OWNED Donald Trump… AGAIN.
A restaurant comparison has become a running story on Jay Black's channel. His latest installment gathers the setup, the offended response and Barack Obama's return to the microphone, giving viewers the sequence behind the Cheesecake Factory dispute.
Black's Short reached roughly 324,000 views in 15 hours, well beyond his usual first-day audience. It follows an earlier upload focused on Donald Trump's response to Obama's comparison of the White House's gold-heavy appearance to a Cheesecake Factory opened by Saddam Hussein.
Here, Black plays Trump's reply: "And for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president."
The follow-up footage supplies Obama's distinction between the two halves of his joke. "The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him," Obama says, before describing Trump's objection to the restaurant reference.
Obama then mocks the administration's response, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's restaurant appearance. Black presents the exchange as political comedy, with his own commentary between the clips. His earlier Cheesecake Factory video concentrated on Trump's reaction; this one adds Obama's answer.
An American restaurant chain and cheesecake distributor. It operates full-service restaurants under the Cheesecake Factory name and other brands.
More on Wikipedia ›An American businessman and government official who has served as U.S. treasury secretary since 2025.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Jay Black
- Subscribers
- 184,000 ▲ 9,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,703,424
- Channel views, pace per day
- 369,589 (on a normal day: 479,872)
- Video published
- October 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 324,111 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 402,601
The numbers
The Short is running far ahead of Jay Black's usual opening pace, even while channel-wide daily views are below their typical level.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which department does Scott Bessent lead in the dispute covered by Black?
Bessent is the Treasury secretary whose Cheesecake Factory appearance features in Obama's response.


