Posted on 01/15/2019 11:51:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Monday night the Clemson Football National Champions made a visit to the White House where President Trump hosted them for dinner in the State Dining Room. The President personally paid for a lavish spread of fast food from a variety of establishments.
“The President wanted to host a fun event to celebrate the College Football National Champion Clemson Tigers. Because the Democrats refuse to negotiate on border security, much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed – so the President is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods,” Press Secretary Sarah Sanders released in a statement.
Here’s a video I shot of President Trump showing off his 300 hamburgers. pic.twitter.com/P06S6I5w07— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 14, 2019
Earlier this evening, President @realDonaldTrump treated the Clemson Tigers football team to dinner in the State Dining Room! #ALLIN pic.twitter.com/P5JAo6yzfR— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 15, 2019
"I think we're going to serve McDonald's, Wendy's, & Burger King, with some pizza. I would think that's their favorite food." — Trump, on Clemson football team visit pic.twitter.com/QPQ5SFSZhQ— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 14, 2019
While the Clemson Tigers seemed to be enjoying themselves, a number of President Trump's critics lost their minds over the presentation.
1. US fast food emerges out of a vast network of animal suffering & ecological destruction & in turn has produced an epidemic of ill health. In large swathes of the country it is the cheapest & sometimes only option, thanks to a skein of implicit & explicit subsidies ... https://t.co/DmXHMrCcH0— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
2. ... backed by ubiquitous, relentless corporate advertising. Yet somehow this unholy stew of capitalist exploitation & corporate welfare has taken on a vaguely populist air. Already I guarantee there are people responding to the first tweet calling me a tedious scold.— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
3. Yes, in many places fast food is the cheapest option, so many poor & working class people depend on it. Yes, it tastes good, because it is literally designed in f'ing laboratories to stimulate our taste centers. So, yes, lots of ordinary people eat it & like it! But ...— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
4. ... it is super-weird to then extend fast food some sort of populist credibility, as though to criticize it is to criticize the people who eat it. It seems to me that is exactly what McF'ingDonalds wants. It's what Chevrolet & WalMart want. They all want a protective sheen ...— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
5. ... of virtue, patriotism, populism, down-home community, derived from the people who use their products. But that's just advertising. These are giant multinational corporations. Their primary objective is to deliver quarterly returns to shareholders. All else is subordinate.— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
6. They lobby & bribe politicians to regulate them loosely, to subsidize their products, & above all to help them avoid financial responsibility for the social, health, & ecological damage they do. They plaster advertising on every available surface, object, or medium.— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
7. The status quo is a corrupt deal between multinational corporations & politicians. It's a crap deal for ordinary people, as evidenced by the health outcomes. The fact that they've got ordinary people defending them, casting critics as elitist, is a brilliant f'ing con.— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
8. It's corporatism & crony capitalism masquerading as populism -- a bunch of confused & vaguely reactionary narratives distracting from the core goal of concentrating more wealth & power at the top. In short, it is Trump all over. </fin> pic.twitter.com/0ULyC3Hb3e— David Roberts (@drvox) January 15, 2019
The media is also fact checking how many burgers were actually at the event.
Heard in select fast food restaurants: “They want what?”
I haven’t seen an official number, but judging from a typical roster with coaches, the team itself would have been at least 100, but that would not include other guests, such as the entire SC Congressional delegation and White House staff.
Two hundred people at least and probably many more, as can be seen from photos.
Any event planner, especially at the White House, would over-order for sure.
heh heh
That may be why they split up the order between several outlets: McDonald’s, Wemdy’s, Burger King.
re: “I believe the AOC dancing vid criticism was completely fake news. Here is a video breakdown of the “controversy” from Youtube legend, John Ward:
https://youtu.be/FPon3Lb1nck “
MARVELOUS take-down ...
Fabrication (of the WHOLE thing) from top to bottom. Shows NYTimes was complicit to boot.
Otherwise, HOW DID the NYTimes find an obscure, newly-created Twitter account so fast with said AOC “dancing video”?
What a worthless, rude country this has become, at least that is what media presents to the world.
Saw snippets of these ranting, media fish wives, snarling about Trump demeaning women by suggesting the First Lady wanted to make a salad. Trashing Trump about the fast food wasn’t enough, they then had to trash him and the First Lady about a salad.
Hey, if it gives the left aneurysms, let him do it every day of the shutdown!
I doubt they were left unconsumed on the trays long enough to get cold.
He shaves his legs with Gillette
My only desire is that fast food buns and wraps were whole wheat (yes, I eat wheat).
When our teen boys had a chance to go to fancy restaurants, they would search the menu for “real food,” which inevitably meant burgers and fries.
I had an egg mcmuffin for breakfast but they didn’t have the presidential burgers in yet.
For the record.....
Does Mc Donalds serve ham biscuits where you live?
I’ll check tomorrow when I go in for breakfast.
Years ago, In a hurry to get up the road, I stopped at a Mc Donalds in Flint Michigan and ordered a ham biscuit and coffee. The girl said what? I said a ham biscuit and coffee. She replied what?
We went through that three times before I realized that the ham biscit delicacy had not made onto the menu of Michigan McDonalds. Not only did the girl not have ham biscuits, she did not even know what a ham biscuit was.
I’m up; movin’ around, but still dark out.
Gimme an hour or so yet...
When my daughter was 15, we took a road trip to Disneyworld. On the way, we stopped at a MickyD’s, somewhere in the middle of Georgia, for lunch.
After getting our food and sitting down, my daughter said, “Dad; they sure talk funny down here!”
To which I replied, “No, WE are the one’s who are talking funny down here.”
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