Former US President Barack Obama is facing additional troubles amidst reports of marital issues and a potential divorce with Michelle.
The fresh challenge surrounds his Obama Presidential Center. A black-owned local subcontractor has accused one of the major companies constructing the country’s first black president’s library of racial discrimination, Daily Mail reported.

For Obama, 2025 seems quite troublesome as he was pictured all alone during Jimmy Carter’s state funeral and Donald Trump’s second inauguration after she decided to skip the event, sparking rumours that the duo has or will split up.

Due to a federal lawsuit, the Obama Presidential Center, the ex-President’s his long-planned library and community center in Chicago, may now experience more delays.

Obama Presidential Center: All you need to know about latest trouble
Obama’s centre has been experiencing a difficult start from the beginning. His library was sued over its proposed location, mounting expenses, and building problems.

Robert McGee, proprietor of II in One, a South Side-based company, supplied rebar and concrete for the Obama centre. In a federal lawsuit filed this month, McGee sought reimbursement from Thornton Tomasetti, a firm based in New York, for construction-related costs totaling almost $40 million.

The lawsuit alleges that Thornton Tomasetti exposed his firm to “excessively rigorous and unnecessary inspection” and copious documentation, which “impacted production and resulting in millions in losses,” and that he modified the project’s criteria on multiple occasions.

McGee charged them with “racial discrimination.”

He further stated in the lawswuit that he “never imagined that the Obama Foundation’s structural engineer would single out a minority-owned subcontractor for unfair criticism and falsely accuse II in One of lacking sufficient qualifications and experience to perform its work, while, in the same letter, stating that the non-minority-owned contractors were sufficiently qualified.”