VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-29
“They mobilised a whole-of-government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.”
Barack Obama · said 2026-10-28 · reported 2026-10-29
Obama joked that the White House mounted a whole-of-government response to his Cheesecake Factory joke rather than to inflation.
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