They keep playing a commercial on my satellite radio (one of those "public service" ads) about the poor kids who are forced to eat ketchup soup (?!) because there's not enough money for anything else. Never mind the fact that I can buy 2 cans of tuna for the price of a bottle of ketchup, given the numbers of shelters and soup kitchens and food stamps and free food at DSS and other places, how anyone can even suggest that someone would "have" to eat ketchup soup for dinner is just ridiculous. And sadly, I'm sure some bleeding hearts believe that tripe.
So much for the old liberal saw about ketchup becoming a vegetable under Reagan.
In both cases, I doubt the sitting President had any knowledge, let alone influence, over what the civil servants did.