Obama’s dour new Presidential Center is getting savaged on social media: ‘Death Star in Chicago’

Yes, we trash can.

President Barack Obama’s austere new presidential library is getting roasted with comparisons to the Death Star, garbage bins and other domineering monoliths in a hilarious social media thread sparked by Sen. Ted Cruz.

“Locating the Death Star in Chicago was a bold move,” Cruz (R-Texas) wrote on X Tuesday while reposting a video of the latest work on Obama’s Chicago presidential center.

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The facility, a slab of concrete and granite rising 225 feet above Chicago’s Jackson Park, has faced ridicule from critics since its design was first unveiled nearly 10 years ago — and the peanut gallery poured on more jokes after Cruz’s post.

Some posted videos with “Star Wars” X-wing fighters closing in on the library building, while others Photoshopped the structure sideways to replace the torsos of the massive AT-AT walkers from “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Others superimposed the Eye of Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” movies on its roof, and others simply posted photos of Easter Island heads.

Kitty litter boxes were also included in the comparisons, as were common trash bins, dumpsters, and ephemera from “Star Trek” and “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

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“It’s an ‘obamanation’! Just like his presidency!” one person wrote.

“It’s like someone built a Lego set without the instructions,” said another.

Prisons, power plants, and Jenga block towers were also frequent comparisons.

One person simply posted the cover of the Who album “Who’s Next,” where the band stands around a massive concrete pillar in a barren wasteland.

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“That’s no library…,” wrote another, in a clever nod to both a famous “Star Wars” quote and the Obama building’s baffling purpose.

In fact, the beleaguered building won’t be a presidential library at all, but rather a “presidential center.”

The center will have no physical presidential records, as presidential libraries typically do.

Instead, it will have access to digital files from Obama’s presidency, with the center arguing that plan makes the most sense because the vast majority of communications from his eight years in the White House were digital to begin with.

The donor-funded nonprofit-funded center has also become a cash pit, with the budget exploding from the $500 million initially slated to $830 million.

It isn’t slated to open until spring 2026.