KENNEDY: The truth of Barack Obama's hopelessly-delayed $830 million DEI nightmare of a presidential library that may never be built

Bolting billionaires. Ballooning budgets. A radical favoritism suit from a thwarted subcontractor.

Who needs Jussie Smollett? The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) is turning retired to beryllium Chicago's top hoax.

Sprouting up connected the city's South Side successful 2021 similar an Egyptian funerary complex, the Taj Barack has already taken astir doubly arsenic agelong to physique arsenic immoderate statesmanlike room successful history. And astatine an estimated outgo of $830 million, it's the astir expensive... by hundreds of millions.

That's capable to marque King Tut's mummy blush, but it's beauteous modular erstwhile it comes to the modern gods of the Democratic party.

$1.5 cardinal to 'advance DEI successful Serbia's workplaces,' $70,000 for an Irish DEI-centric musical, $47,000 for a 'transgender opera' successful Colombia and $32,000 connected a 'transgender comic book' successful Peru is just immoderate of the spending from the now-shuttered US Agency for International Development (or arsenic President Biden called it: The Taxpayer Cash Disposal Department).

Never hide that Biden's White House took a $7.5 cardinal concern and built a expansive full of 8 electrical conveyance charging stations implicit 2 years, which is conscionable a hair-plug shy of his people of 500,000 EV stations by 2030. 

Hold my Chardonnay, said Kamala. She burned done $1.5 cardinal successful 15 weeks connected her mode to electoral disgrace.

But who needs results erstwhile you're playing with idiosyncratic else's money?

Well, present that Demolition Don is taking a sledgehammer to the national bureaucracy the gig is up. And not conscionable for taxpayer-funded enactment changes successful Guatemala.

In the sweetest portion of irony ever, Barack's Chicago Shrine is turning retired to beryllium a near-perfect metaphor for the full Democratic party.

A black-owned factual subcontractor is suing the structural engineering steadfast down the task for $40 cardinal claiming that they were discriminated against. 

Left lawyers person sought injunctions to halt the constructions aft they uncovered plans to chopped down 1,000 old-growth trees. 

And uncomfortable questions were raised implicit revelations that ex-White House flunky turned CEO of the Obama Foundation, Valeria Jarrett, raked successful a chill $740,000 successful a azygous year, to tally the OPC consecutive into the ground.

For a feline who erstwhile branded himself 'No Drama Obama', this has turned into a soap opera. And disillusioned Democrats are rethinking whether to flip much wealth connected this statesmanlike wealth pyre.

Contributions archetypal started drying up backmost successful 2023 erstwhile donations plummeted by 50 percent from the twelvemonth earlier – and the evacuation from the USS Obama seems to beryllium accelerating.

'He's arrogant,' 1 erstwhile backer reportedly said of Obama past week. 'There's nary quid pro quo due to the fact that it's a one-way street.'

Of course! It's the Chicago way... I scratch your backmost and you scratch mine. It's the American way, successful fact.

Is determination immoderate existent enigma wherefore Bill Clinton's statesmanlike room reportedly raised much than 10 percent of its $165 cardinal outgo from overseas sources oregon wherefore the royal household of Saudi Arabia gave $10 cardinal to George H.W. Bush's library? The backstage tours can't beryllium that good.

These statesmanlike vanity projects are conscionable vehicles for ex-presidents to support the enactment going agelong aft they permission the White House.

It should astonishment nary 1 that the wealth spigot is being turned disconnected arsenic Trump rescues the state from the sinking into the swamps of Washington DC.

Tay Tay

Taylor Swift's play ended with a thud aft the Kansas City backmost Patrick Mahomes turned the shot implicit 3 times and his Chiefs were blown retired successful the Super Bowl.

But it was super-tight-end Travis Kelce who had the biggest fumble of the nighttime by failing to enactment a title ringing connected his popular princess.

This is going to beryllium a hard nonaccomplishment to bounce backmost from.

Just inquire Blake Lively.

Tay Tay doesn't similar losers.

Serena's fault

Speaking of immense embarrassments… tennis fable Serena Williams is being dragged for her weird five-second cameo during Kendrick Lamar's Super Lame halftime show.

Music fans assumed her quality had thing to bash with Lamar's beef with Williams' ex-boyfriend Drake.

Apparently, Serena's not implicit him?

But Williams's hubby says they've got it each incorrect and her creation was a protestation against censorious culture.

Sure man, support telling yourself that.

Bieber fever

The Matrix is real! At least, it is for Justin and Hailey.

The Beliebers stepped retired successful New York City past week dressed similar Neo and Trinity – but fans were much shocked by Justin's dead-eyed stare.

Ever since ex-Bieber mentor Sean Combs was thrown down bars, Justin has seemed to beryllium connected a downward spiral.

Take the bluish pill man.

Oily Ella

Almost First Step Daughter Ella Emhoff, infamous for her jungle bush armpits, is present hawking a merchandise called 'Fur Oil.'

And it's precisely what you fearfulness it is.

Ella's hipster elixir is specifically designed for pubic hairsbreadth and is utilized to dainty ingrown hairs, irritation and guaranteed to marque your parents disappointed successful what you've become.

Princely punishment

Trump-lovers were salivating astatine the imaginable of rabid borderline czar Tom Homan deporting King Charles' spurned spawn, but the 47th president gave Prince Harry a pass.

'I'll permission him alone,' the president quipped. 'He's got capable problems with his wife, she's terrible.'

Ouch, but Don's right.

I'd alternatively beryllium deported to an El Salvadorian situation than walk a nighttime unsocial successful Montecito.