Posted on 01/15/2019 1:04:31 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Perhaps the greatest example of Trump derangement syndrome today and what, in a sane world, would be a profoundly embarrassing piece of journalism, which is saying a lot given everything that’s happened during the Trump administration. The Washington Post is beside itself. And if you happen to receive the Washington Post daily email blast that is supposed to tell you what’s hot and what’s interesting and what’s leading the day in Washington Post news coverage, this story is at the top of all the news out there. This story is what the Washington Post apparently is the most proud of today.
The headline: “President Trump’s Extravagant, $3,000, 300-Sandwich Celebration of Clemson University.” You look at the resources the Washington Post spent analyzing the fast food dinner at the White House that the president personally purchased for the Clemson football team because of the government shutdown. The White House kitchen staff has been furloughed. The Clemson football team, previously invited, Trump could not stand to have them up there with nothing to eat, so they want out to Mickey D’s, they went to Burger King, they went to Wendy’s, they went to pizza places, they got some fries, $3,000 worth of food college students love!
College students eat every day. Trump went out — I think it’s fabulous! They had the candelabra. They had every accouterment that you would associate with an eight-course meal except it’s all fast food burgers in their original boxes. It was classic, it was classic Trump. The Washington Post is beside itself. The Washington Post thinks this is the greatest affront to civilization and proper comportment and behavior in the White House that there has ever been, so much so that this story is their number one story.
They even had their art department do a graphic of the table setting showing where every Big Mac, every Quarter Pounder, every… What’s the burger? The Burger King big deal, whatever it is. They had the Whopper and then Wendy’s over there. It’s like a real estate person’s floor plan for if they’re trying to sell a house, is what this thing looks like. They calculate the calories, the orders of french fries, the types of hamburgers that Trump provided — and then they did a fact check!
Trump’s out there having fun with this, and he’s telling people that they had hamburgers stacked “a mile high,” and the Washington Post fact checked that! They fact checked Trump’s statements that hamburgers were piled a mile high. I mean, it is a figure of speech! It is a joke! It is a way of expressing yourself to say you had a lotta hamburgers in there. But the Washington Post writes, “FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.” This is the No. 1 story they have put at the top their email blast.
This is the one they want everybody to read. This is the one they’re most proud of today. Now, imagine how many resources were put into this. Fact-checkers, arts and graphics people doing a diagram of where every burger was — wherever the Big Macs on the table, wherever the Burger King Whoppers and whatever the Wendy’s whatevers were. Imagine if all of those resources had been spent on looking into the corruption at the FBI, or the corruption at the DOJ, or how about the lobbyist-paid trip to Puerto Rico by Democrat members of Congress?
I mean, this is just… It is absurd, and it’s a great illustration of how they’ve lost their minds. And they’re not the only ones that are raising hell over this. This serving of fast food burgers at the White House to Clemson football team is being presented as yet another bit of evidence of how uncivilized, how ill-prepared, how unfit Donald Trump is to be president of the United States, that this is just… It’s embarrassing; it’s appalling.
Fast food in the White House with all of the fat and all of the salt and all of the calories and all the heart disease, not to mention all of the damage to climate. It’s by one of their prominent reporters, some guy named Bump, Philip Bump. “In an administration overstuffed with bizarre moments and unusual events, Monday night’s celebration of the Clemson University Tigers at the White House nonetheless made a mark. The Tigers, who won the national college football championship after not having to play … Ohio State…”
This guy went to Ohio State, so he’s really ripping Clemson. They’re not the real national champs ’cause they didn’t play this guy’s team. “The Tigers, who…” Now, we don’t think he’s joking because these people don’t have a sense of humor. This is the kind of thing that somebody would say to get a laugh. This guy, these people have no sense of humor. If you’re gonna fact check somebody saying, “Yeah, we had hamburgers piled a mile high,” and you bring in a fact-checker and you talk about how many hamburgers you would actually have to have stacked on top of each other to get to a mile?
Anyway, they “had the traditional meeting with the president,” the football team did, “enjoying remarks from South Carolina’s senators after retiring to the State Dining Room for a meal.” That’s what bugs them too. They did all this fast food in the state dining room. You know, you’re only supposed to bring out the five-star china, the best of the best. You’re not supposed to put poison fast food in there. Who does that? This is another demeaning day at the White House brought to us by Donald Trump.
Sarah Sanders with a press secretary statement: “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.” They go on to analyze it from top to bottom, graphic charts of layout of the food, questioning how much Trump actually spent out of his own pocket. Is it just another Trump administration lie? Who really paid the $3,000 to buy all of this fast food?
And they have a picture here of the spread. You probably have seen the photo of the spread on the gigantic table in the state dining room, and there is a sound bite. Let me see. Trump made a joke about this, and the Drive-By Media is… Oh. Oh. Oh. Here it is. Here it is. Grab… Let’s see. Grab sound bite Nos. 9 and 10. This is just… It fits perfectly. Up first is the president himself last night after welcoming the Clemson football team to the White House, a portion of his welcoming remarks…
THE PRESIDENT: So I had a choice. Do we have no food for you, ’cause we have a shutdown, or do we give you some little quick salad that the first lady will make along with… along with the second lady? They’ll make some salads — and I said, “You guys aren’t into salads.”
CHAMPIONS: (laughing)
THE PRESIDENT: Or do I go out? Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, do I go out and send out for about 1,000 hamburgers, Big Macs?
TEAM: (laughing) Yeah!
THE PRESIDENT: So we actually did it.
RUSH: Bill Clinton had Big Macs in the Oval Office; they didn’t think a thing about it. They worried that it wasn’t healthy for him, but they didn’t make a big joke about it. Saturday Night Live did, but not the fact that he was demeaning the Oval Office or anything. Trump happens to like Big Macs. I happen to know on the campaign trail, Trump is flying around on his own Boeing 757. There are number of galleys, meaning kitchens, on a Boeing 757. I understand that practically every trip was McDonald’s.
He loves McDonald’s and other fast food, and he also thinks it’s safe. He sends somebody else to buy it. Nobody knows it’s for him; therefore, it’s not poison. It’s a security thing to go out and get fast food. He loves it. So this is something that he enjoyed doing too. But in this sound bite, do you know that there was something? The president said something so offensive that upon hearing it a cable news infobabe nearly lost her cookies. Do you remember the sound bite? It was only a few seconds. Do you know what he might have said that just sent somebody into orbit? (interruption) Right! That the first lady would be making salads!
Here we go with Erin Burnett on CNN…
ERIN BURNETT: How in the world do you not perceive that as sexist —
SCOTT JENNINGS: Uh…
ERIN BURNETT: — to say the assumption that his wife’s gonna go make salads for the bunch of football players? (snickering)
SCOTT JENNINGS Uh, I —
ERIN BURNETT: What is she, like, the cook?
SCOTT JENNINGS: I think you — you might be overreading this one.
ERIN BURNETT: I’m not overreading it! He made a joke that was sexist about women. (stammering) I guess what we’re agreeing with is whether it’s funny and whether humor is something that’s serious. I feel pretty strongly it’s a sexist thing to say.
RUSH: A sexist thing to say. The first lady could have whipped up some salads and the second lady. They didn’t want to leave out Ivanka. She apparently makes great salads. That’s why he had to put her name in there. Apparently Ivanka’s salads are to die for, so he couldn’t leave her out. And here’s Erin Burnett (impression), “I don’t think it’s funny. Comedy isn’t supposed to be funny, is it? We’re not supposed to laugh at comedy. (sputtering) Well, I’m not overreading it. He made a joke. Sexist. We’re disagreeing with whether it’s funny, whether humorous is serious. It’s humor something seer? I don’t know. Just really feel strongly it’s sexist. Sexist! First lady making salads?”
What do they do at dinnertime in her house, I wonder?
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RUSH: I’ve been informed that I erred in identifying the second lady. I thought that Trump was referring to Ivanka. But I’m told the second lady is Mrs. Pence, Karen Pence, the wife of the vice president, Mike Pence. Apparently, she has a great reputation for making salads, which is why this would be on Trump’s mind. The fact that it was sexist? See? A woman in the kitchen? First lady, second lady, third lady, bag lady, trailer park lady, it doesn’t matter. In the kitchen is sexist. Portraying women in any kind of historically traditional role is sexist.
Do you remember the shutdown in ’95-96? That was the famous Newt Gingrich-Bill Clinton shutdown and the same circumstances existed, the kitchen staff at the White House was on furlough. Why do you think Monica Lewinsky was in there delivering pizzas and snapping her thong at Bill Clinton? Do you remember the media giving Clinton any grief for having a pizza delivered by an intern whom he was then gonna doink in the nearby bathroom?
Do you remember the Drive-Bys, how they tried to cover all that up. But there certainly wasn’t any, “Oh, my God. What’s happening to the White House? Pizza in the Oval Office.” No, they all would have wished they were invited, particularly the female members of the press corps. “What’s Lewinsky got that I don’t?” Well, that night a thong or that day, whatever it was. Did you see any of the actual celebration in the White House last night between Trump and the football team from Clemson?
President Trump Welcomes the 2018 College Football Playoff National Champion Clemson Tigers
It was a celebration of winners. It was replete with references to God and excellence, the purpose of team sports: To build character in boys so they can be productive men. It was a total positive. It was a completely uplifting thing. But it was comprised of values that have always been traditional and are now under assault in America. I’m sure a lot of parents who may have watched that thing last night might like their kids to end up going to Clemson, based on the nature of that celebration last night.
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RUSH: We went back to the archives. You have to hear this. This is actual from at A&E Network’s show called The Clinton Affair. They went back and did a documentary retrospective on it, and during a segment on the 1995 government shutdown, Monica Lewinsky said this about how she met Bill Clinton…
LEWINSKY: I realized that the top inch or two of my… (laughing) My, uh, underwear had — showing my thong underwear. And I thought, “Well, I’ll up the game.” Instead of pulling my trousers up like I would have done in any other instance, I didn’t. It was unnoticeable to anybody else in the room, but he noticed. As I passed George Stephanopoulos’s office, I kind of looked into the open doorway, and Bill happened to be standing there, and he motioned me in. Unbeknownst to me, I was on the precipice of the rabbit hole.
RUSH: So she’s delivering a pizza in there during the government shutdown, and she was popping her thong in there. She saw Stephanopoulos. Now, Stephanopoulos… You know, if she’s in his office, if Stephanopoulos looks up, he sees her waist. He’s a short guy. But she didn’t notice that. She noticed only Clinton looking. So she’s out there… (I chose “waist” on purpose. This is a family show.) But she’s popping her thong and so forth, delivering a pizza. She’s all excited here that Bill Clinton noticed her thong, and she made adjustments with her clothing to make sure he noticed even more — and somehow Donald Trump is the biggest reprobate that has ever occupied the Oval Office.
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the honest feedback I saw was three or four players with hamburger boxes stacked 4 high in their hands
“I’d like to hear honest feedback from the guests what they thought of the food.”
You must not know any college age males.
“It’s used in buffet lines”
True, it often is. I take it you’re not a picky eater...
the left is insane and so are most of the women talking heads on CNN. His joke was, the menu choice was rabbit food or burgers. Burgers won.
I take it that you are. Who made you spokesmouth for hungry football playing lads?
“Another Mitt in Free Republic pretending to be a great American while stabbing our president in the back.”
Geez, Dude, you can’t come up with anything intelligent to say? I’m not pretending to be anything, and I’m not stabbing anyone in the back. I would say it to his face, by golly.
Perhaps I am feigning outrage a bit. I agree with whoever it was who said it’s not a big deal. I love Trump. My posts speak for themselves. But I don’t love everything about him any more than I love everything about anyone.
Besides, if the guests were happy, that’s what counts, right?
Apparently most did but then you can’t please all people
every time. They have a first on their resume that most
never have the opp to get.
“Who made you spokesmouth for hungry football playing lads?”
Why, no one, of course. Was that a rhetorical question?
Also keep in mind his staff was limited. He could have taken
them over to his hotel which is three blks or so from the WH
but he chose not to. He does things differently and doesn’t
get hung up in tradition every time.
I think the cachet is to be at the White House, not a hotel.
I agree POTUS thinks outside the box and we are all the better for that.
The Left is so hung up about POTUS businesses profiting from his Presidency that there would have been too much trash talk if he had involved hotel staff since the hotel would have needed to be paid.
Whatever, Mitt!
Carry on, Nancy.
This was a ONCE IN-A-LIFETIME chance to go to the White House meet the President, and celebrate a great sport season...This was not about the food.
Peanut butter sandwiches? Seriously?!?! With potential for peanut allergies? No way would I serve that.
Pizza...great but everyone has a different idea of what is good pizza. So he got some Dominoes pizza—just fast food pizza...
College kids love fast food.
Regarding fast food. It was ONE meal.
I think it was a smart move on President’s part.
Higher quality gas at Taco Bell.
Maybe he did not want to make that statement...
fast food ping
They are college students. Get over it dude. College students are not expecting a lot.
Nah, he didn’t want to ask Mexico to pay for it!
Whoppers are never dry. Lol. According to my friend.
It is all crap eventually. Look into the toilet sometime and try to tell if that extra money was worth it. lol.
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