Trump Welcomes Clemson Tigers to the White House with 'American Fast Food Paid for by Me'

NBC News ^ | January 14, 2019 | Courtney Blake

[Cecily]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump welcomed the NCAA champion Clemson Tigers football team to the White House Monday with a shutdown smorgasbord of fast food offerings he called "great American food," including piles of pizza and fries and more than 300 burgers.

“Because of the shutdown, as you know, we have the great Clemson team with us, so we went out and ordered American fast food paid for by me,” the president said in the East Room, standing behind a table loaded with offerings from McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and Dominos served on silver platters, behind a gilded candelabra.

[HotHunt]

The optics would be bad for them. Boycotting fast-food joints because big, college-age footballers enjoyed the food?

I'm sure it put the players at ease and made Trump look like a regular guy, which he is.

The media hates that about him.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cecily.

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