The Obama Presidential Center has taken plenty of heat, mostly because it’s one of the ugliest buildings humanity has ever produced. Soviet architects would be in awe of the brutalist, menacing design of the $850 million ode to the 44th president.
But what some have termed a “Klingon prison” just got weirder and, if possible, less attractive with the addition of a colossal display on its sides with words from the former president’s 2015 speech in Selma, Alabama. It might be inspiring — if you could actually read it:
I noticed when I was in the air that the sentences wrap around the west and south sides of the building, and looks decent in a very specific spot on the ground or very good from the air…but like that’s not an ideal design in my opinion. pic.twitter.com/pjtUxRUCM9
— Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere (@TylerLaRiviere) February 16, 2026
“Not the ideal design.” Well, that’s certainly a contestant for understatement of the year. “I gave up after developing a headache three lines from the top,” one commenter noted.
It’s not a traditional presidential library — the physical archives won’t even be stored there, as is usually the case. Instead, the National Archives will manage them off-site and make digital versions available to the public. Its real purpose is to act as some sort of monumental community organizing project.
The Obama Foundation, whose CEO is the infamous Valerie Jarrett, funds and will run the campus, which will sport a regulation basketball court, a museum, a life-size replica of the Oval Office, podcast/recording studios, a “Democracy in Action Lab,” and more.
There will be an actual library on site, a 5,000-square-foot branch of the Chicago Public Library, which will be topped by the Eleanor Roosevelt Fruit and Vegetable Garden.
Their website bills the place as “A Global Center for Change.”
Why? I like America the way it is. What exactly do you want to change? It’s a rhetorical question; we all know that he wants to change into a woke bastion of liberalism.
When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, it will be a hub for change — a place for people from all over the world to come together, get inspired, and take what they learn back to their own communities. https://t.co/gW6UCYBCAJ pic.twitter.com/U92thHbAUL
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 18, 2025
MORE: The Obama Library Is Ugly for a Reason
The Reactions to Obama's Post About His Presidential Center Are Hilarious
Commenters let their feelings be known on social media, as one wrote:
what don’t you understand about
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There was more:
"The dyslexic in me is not amused," journalist and columnist Salena Zito posted.
"He put his own speech on the outside of his library?" one user posted. "Find yourself someone who loves you like Obama loves himself."
"It looks like a WW2-era German anti-aircraft tower," another posted.
This post is pretty epic:
What the Obama library should look like pic.twitter.com/Q10oR7eqwt
— The American Girl (@TheAmericanGrl) February 17, 2026
The Center is slated to open in June. In the meantime, every time you look at it, it gets uglier. Khrushchev would be proud.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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