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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Hot garbage president serves cold garbage food

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Fun fact - presidents pay out of pocket to host these dinners. It's not a write off or anything, it's straight cash.

Other fun fact - Trump absolutely loves McDonald's.

So this trashy guy hosted a fancy dinner with McDonald's, and paid about $1000 for it.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Lol .... Actually thinking that he paid for anything.

He probably ordered it from the nearest McDonald's and just demanded it all because he's president, promised them they'd get paid .... then never thought of them again.

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[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

Thinking about the original photo, seeing so much junk food piled in the white house really feels like a AI generated image

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 34 points 10 months ago

It's crazy that the only thing photoshopped in that picture is the size of his hands.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

Imagine going to the White House and being served a cold ass fast food cheeseburger.

[-] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

This is high class to his voters.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago
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[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 36 points 10 months ago

I know I’ll probably get downvoted for saying this, but the amount of hate he got for doing this was about as unwarranted as Obama’s white suit episode.

There was a government shutdown and the White House catering staff was on unpaid leave. And he was hosting a football team, not some delegation of international politicians. He basically did what anyone else would do if they have an unexpected visit and no food in the house. His guests had no complaints either, only the press hated it.

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

He could've just as easily hired someone to cater and make good food, instead he spent $5000 on fast food because he thinks that's what college football players prefer.

Also, Trump was the reason for the government shutdown because he wanted funding for his bullshit border wall.

[-] Bonehead@kbin.social 85 points 10 months ago

He basically did what anyone else would do if they have an unexpected visit and no food in the house.

And this would be understandable if he were a middle class housewife. But this is the US president, during a shutdown caused by Trump. There should have been any number of restaurants that would have dropped everything to fill an order for the White House. This entire episode was just an embarrassment.

[-] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 14 points 10 months ago

A middle class family couldn’t afford this much McDonald’s. They’d also have more taste and class than to serve this.

Agreed they could call many restaurants that offer catering. Or, he, his wife, or any of his adult children could have made a home cooked meal for stellar optics instead of this travesty.

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[-] Nightwind@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Yeah you'll get downvoted, because spending 5k on cold hamburgers from McDonald's ist not something anybody would do. It's something an idiot would do. Everyone with two brain cells would have started calling large restaurants or catering providers and ask them if they can make something happen.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Any caterer or restaurant in the DC Metro area would have provided $5000 worth of food for the publicity alone.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

Maybe he could have gotten restaurant food instead of fast food. Just because they’re a football team doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate good food.

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

But also… the picture.

He basically did a McBang.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Obama looked fly in the tan suit, this just looks fucking awful. Would you serve this shit to your guests?

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

TAN SUIT?!?! How unamerican. The next thing you're going to tell me is that he puts Dijon mustard on his hot dogs...

/s

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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's that the suit people shat on him for? It looks good. I don't get wtf problem is with people.

Wtf America?

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It’s because republicans are racist.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wasn’t the fact that it looked good on him that he got crap for, it was the question whether it was appropriate for the occasion (a press conference discussing the potential escalation of military strikes in Syria).

Tradition demands that you wear a dark suit for something as serious as discussing the sacrifice of other people’s lives. A tan suit has more of a lighthearted vibe and is therefore something you’d wear to a festivity, not when discussing drone strikes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controversy

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

I don't think anyone would really even remember if he hadn't written hAmBeRdEr. No one was talking for weeks about how this incident clearly made him an inappropriate president. We laughed and moved on for the most part. Not remotely the same as the tan suit "incident".

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 16 points 10 months ago

It’s kinda funny. And don’t you mean tan suit?

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, that’s what I meant.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

lol imagine thinking that wearing a tan suit and serving people cold ass McDonald’s is equivalent.

You trumpers try way too hard to find equivalencies when the easier option is to just admit what a fuck bag the dude is. He isn’t worth defending ffs.

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The painting swap doesn't add much to this, but is otherwise fitting.

[-] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 15 points 10 months ago

You are what you eat after all.

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Can confirm, I told my wife that I'm a pussy and she just said that I'm also an ass

[-] inconel@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

Does anybody knows whose art of back painting? or is it AI stuff?

It photoshopped and swapped original image to match this situation but I couldn't find it.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He even looks like he’d smell like he just did a body fart

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[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna be 100% honest here. I would do this if i were president.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

It was a dick move like everything else. He hosted the national college football champs during a partial government shutdown, but rather than pay for some nice food from a third party for those champs, he figured that just being in his presence was reward enough, so enjoy your shitty fast food, boys.

In an explanation for the evening’s menu, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “The Democrats’ refusal to compromise on border security and reopen the government didn’t stop President Trump from hosting national champion @ClemsonFB tonight. He personally paid for the event to be catered by some of America’s great fast food joints.”

Though he told reporters that he had personally bought “300 hamburgers,” in a tweet the next morning that number had skyrocketed to “1000 hamberders [sic].” (Photos and videos of the scene show that the lower number is likely the more correct one.)

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/15/18183617/trump-clemson-mcdonalds-burger-king-wendys-dominos

"1000 hamberders" would have cost him what, $3000 at most? When he flaunts how rich he is constantly? And then brags about it?

Dick move.

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

NGL I would absolutely love to sample a bit of every "hamberder" TBH.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

What’s that? Serve a bunch of cold mediocre food? Yum!

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[-] Blyfh@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

"HELLO PEOPLE OF AMERICA. IN THIS MUKBANG, WE'RE GONNA TRY–"

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

Partially explains the smell.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

People make this out to be worse than it is, it’s not a big deal and probably better for the players in the sense that it makes the event more casual

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

They didn't travel to the white house expecting or hoping for "casual". They got cold fast food because the entire government had been shut down.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

If I just won a national championship and was invited to the White House, I wouldn't think, "I hope this is a casual affair."

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[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Being in the same room with a fascist is never ok.

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