Obama Officially Opens the Ozymandias Presidential Center As Subcontractors Complain That He Didn't Pay Them and Left Them With Millions in Worthless IOUs

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"They are scared to death about talking about it."

The Obama Presidential Center was pitched as a legacy project that would help lift minority-owned and local businesses.

Now, several subcontractors say the project has left them saddled with massive unpaid costs.

One plumbing contractor says he's nearly $4 million in the red: "That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive."

A Fox News Digital investigation found multiple construction firms reporting losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions, with many of the complaints coming from the very firms the Center claims it wanted to support.

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Subcontractors say they're owed millions, face financial ruin, after helping build Obama Presidential Center Adamson Plumbing owner Mike Owen says his company is owed nearly $4M on the Chicago project

CHICAGO -- 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.

A Fox News Digital investigation identified multiple construction firms claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. The allegations cut against one of the Center's defining goals: helping minority-owned businesses and local contractors grow through one of Chicago's highest-profile construction projects. Several of the complaints reviewed by Fox News Digital come from firms that were supposed to benefit from that mission.

Among them is Adamson Plumbing, whose owner Mike Owen says is nearly $4 million in the red after years of work on the project.

"That is a hole that no subcontractor, small business can survive," Owen said.

Subcontractor owners interviewed by Fox News Digital described what they characterized as a chaotic work environment marked by repeated design changes, rework, scheduling disruptions, extensive oversight and years-long compensation disputes that still remain unresolved.

A project overseen by communist Theater Kids was chaotic and subject to constantly-shifting plans? I don't believe it.

BTW, totally unrelated: LucasFilm fired more directors than actually oversaw completed projects and "announced" more than a dozen movies that never filmed.

Several also described what they viewed as a wall of silence surrounding the project, with some declining to speak publicly or requesting anonymity because of confidentiality agreements or fears of professional retaliation.

The allegations emerge days after a Fox News Digital investigation reported that the Obama Foundation's reserve fund -- originally promoted as a $470 million financial safeguard intended to help protect taxpayers if the project encountered financial trouble -- remains funded at roughly $1 million.

Are you telling me that communists overpromise and underdeliver, are shit with accounting, and promise "the workers" that they'll be millionaires in the New Soviet Era but then confiscate the workers' wealth to build themselves villas and monuments that would make Cresus blush?

I shan't believe it. I simply shannot.

Speaking of communist lies: One of Ozymandias's floozies announced that his presidential center was built on stolen land but, get this, did not go on to say they were returning it.

The Lightworker then took the stage and, get this, gassed out pleasant-sounding platitudes which were also brazen hypocrisies:

Barack Obama, whose administration spied on Trump's campaign in 2016 and fabricated a conspiracy about him colluding with Russia, says it's incredibly important to have a "peaceful transfer of power after the people of spoken." pic.twitter.com/oOzc1rOf1d

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 18, 2026

Obama: People aren’t looking for perpetual anger.

Also Obama: I want you to stay angry. pic.twitter.com/M9ZteYsDgf

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 18, 2026

And then Mamala or whatever she's calling herself "danced" in the typical white woke woman way.

Victor Davis Hanson
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As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins--with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes--he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.

The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago--a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt--Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."

Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences--often at $400,000 a shot--on their own false-consciousness shortcomings.

Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.

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