“Donald Trump spent last year buying and selling stock in the restaurant now at the center of a political spat with Barack Obama over the president’s lavish vanity projects,” Daily Beast reports.“Days after the former Democratic president mocked Trump for making the White House look ‘like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,’ financial disclosures reviewed by the Daily Beast show he bought between $35,007 and $175,000 worth of stock in the franchise last year as his renovations went into overdrive.”