Here's Trump talking about the food — which he paid for himself because of the shutdown — just before the champion football team comes in.
Here’s a video I shot of President Trump showing off his 300 hamburgers. pic.twitter.com/P06S6I5w07
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) January 14, 2019
ADDED: The Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence declares, "It was awesome... We had McDonalds and everything. It was good!"
Another fan asked Lawrence how many times he plans on returning to the White House -- to which he replied, "Hopefully, a few more!"
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Mmmmm, room-temperature hamburgers.
He should have gone Popeyes.
He should have served a Michelle-type lunch, just to see the players turn up their noses.
But no, there he goes, trying to serve food the visitors might actually enjoy. Too classy, I tell you.
I guess food can be deplorable too.
"garbage food served by a garbage president."
Everyone who occasionally indulges in fast food will understand the typical left wing commenter thinks of them as garbage people also. Then they'll laugh about those same people preaching to them about tolerance and inclusivity.
I get that this is unfair to left wingers though. It's so hard to hide your contempt when it's bursting at the seams.
No big deal. I'm sure the players will enjoy the food.
He will never get past this obscenity...Burger Gate!
Soyburgers taste better at room temperature.
Hmm, I guess the question is, Did these college kids like this smorgasbord of burgers?
When I was in college, Yes, I liked fast food. What a surprise.
Trump probably is closer to the pulse of 22-year old hungry football players from the South than the whiny beta male commentators at the Wapo.
He should have served Borscht
The article is rather humorous with all of the statistics and visual aids. I'd assume an element of tongue in cheek if it were not in WaPo. (WaPo sounds like Whopper®, hehe)
I think they used the A/V guy what drew up that FBI leaker to reporter map.
The trouble with hot soyburgers is that they lack the texture you'd want and don't taste like anything. After cooling they firm up a little and the carefully prepared taste comes out.
My understanding is that the Clemson players loved it. And they all had a great time, including Pres. Trump. And that is why the MSM flies into another frenzy.
It's possible that Trump, a guy with years of experience in the hospitality industry, would poll his guests to find out what they would like to eat.
Anthony Bourdain went to a Waffle House and was surprised to learn how good it was.
Maybe the Warriors didn't show up last year because they feared they'd be served Big Macs?
Food they are used to, they don't have to worry about which fork to use, and it will make a 100x better story to tell in later years. When they're older and have kids, how great will it be, every time they take the kids to McD's, to be able to say, "This reminds me of when I was invited to dinner at the White House."
I don't believe in slave labor. So, when Schlump is finally given a life sentence for treason, he should be put to work, and given a modest salary. Doing what? He's not qualified for any normal job. I do NOT want the president defiled in prison.
So, I ask in all earnestness, what job is he suited for? Lying, stealing, and cheating are not valid options. Neither are insulting and humiliating. Maybe he should be put through an anger management course in prison. And then a class in civility. That's it, he can teach Civility Bullshit 101. He's certainly the master of bullshit.
At least it wasn't Soylent Green.
rhhardin the "soy boy"?
Who'd a thunk it? ;)
The candelabras nicely tart up the burgers.
Related: 300sandwiches.com
McDonald’s
48 Big Macs ($2.50)
42 Filet-O-Fish ($2.50)
54 Quarter Pounders ($2.50)
48 Six-Piece Nuggets ($2.50)
32 Side Salads ($1.98)
Wendy’s
52 Chicken Go Wraps ($1.79)
32 Salads ($1.49)
30 Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe ($1.89)
Burger King
30 Whoppers ($4.19)
No taco salads...
In 1939 King George VI visited FDR at Hyde Park. FDR served hot dogs.
Taste the rainbow
garbage comments served by a garbage MSM. that comment is not funny, its just pathetic.
A junk comment feast from a junk MSM. How fitting is that? Talk about a fake newsburger.
They can't keep this bullshit up for 2 years.
Trump needed Monica delivering pizza to pass muster with the WaPoo.
In the 1960's LBJ used to serve BBQ on the White House lawn.
Can't wait for Acosta's hot take (out)
Does it ever bother the liberals that they have become so joyless and bitter? I mean just at a human level do they ever start a pissy comment regarding Trump and just give up in the middle of posting because they are saying the same thing over and over again? It's just not as fun when you are losing the battle. And do any of these liberal scolds think college age boys would have rather have eaten wagyu beef salad with dollops of polenta than Big Macs and fries? How joyless do you have to be to not see this?
The comments from the actual players are somewhat different:
Some players "whooped" when they saw the spread, according a pool report.
Trump never passes an opportunity to let the Press remind us that they are our betters, who don't represent us.
Trump surely knew how the media would react- the man is a genius at yanking their chains.
What's outrageous is that there was no Chick-fil-A.
@Henry - surprised that fairly positive article came from ESPN.com
In other news, President Trump also loves Archie comics. His favorite character is Jughead.
Trumpit: "I don't believe in slave labor"
Leftists believe in nothing but slave labor....for the state.
But in a really really "good way"....
What about the taco salad.
Is there even a Chick-fil-A allowed in DC by the local government?
I don’t see why you posted this, Althouse. Are you trying to remind us that the Post doesn’t much like President Trump? I think we got that a long time ago. Is it that you share their disapproval of his choice of cuisine?
And the correct term is “junque food.” 😋 Not “garbage food.”
OT.
There seems to be a blackout on shutdown news this morning.
Do I take this as a sign Trump is winning?
Agree with David53 - Popeyes was a serious omission.
Hmm, is that sneering comment only directed at white delplorable fast food eaters? Are blacks, who consume massive amounts of fast food supposed to sense that this contempt does not extend to fast food diners with darker skin?
"I don’t see why you posted this, Althouse."
That's always the question, isn't it?
Discuss!
OT: My balls have never been smoother.
@Yancey Ward: There's one at each of the three major universities in DC. Seems to indicate something about college students' taste.
I should have said garbage food eater with darker skin.
What's in the clear plastic?
OH MY GOD! A PRESIDENT WHO GIVES THE KIDS WHAT THEY WANT!! OH MY GOD!!!
Fortunately, the WaPo comment section is here to save us all.
Rush before the 1st break pointed out an article from 2014: "Obama's love affair with the cheeseburger". Guess he's deplorable also.
King Rat, whose comments regarding the president generally border on being hostile, cruel, and vicious ..... goes on to suggest Trump should be put through an anger management course in prison. And then a class in civility." Too funny.
The Left walks through the trap door every time. Gluttons for punishment.
BTW Trumpit, if you believe in socialism, you absolutely do believe in slave labor.
Did Bozo post that WaPo comment himself?
Hateful liberals, liberals are so hateful.
As if these football players don't eat this kind of food all the time.
The media is stuck on stupid -- or as Scott Adams calls it, confirmation bias. Everything the media reports about Trump has to be done in a derogatory way, even providing fast food for a bunch of college students when the regular cooking staff is not available.
Meantime Trump is focused on border security and talks about it at every opportunity. Personally I am disgusted by the garbage reporting by @hunterwalker, a Yahoo! reporter. I checked hisTwitter and it's full of garbage.
Obama treated his White House staff and Matt Lauer to Five Guys when Obama granted unprecedented access during his first month. The orders sounded like a bunch of eight-year-olds--no ketchup, no mustard, no pickles, no onions!
Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence: "It was awesome," Lawrence told us while taking pics with Clemson fans ... "We had McDonalds and everything. It was good!"
I think Trump knows more about what these guys want to eat than all the busybody progressives who are trying to control everyone's lives. Even in the off season these guys consume a lot of calories every day working out and staying in shape. If they think this meal was bad I hope they don't go visit them in the athlete's dining room back at Clemson. They would probably be appalled at how much these guys eat.
I also noted in some of the pics there were salads available. I'll make a bet there plenty of them left.
From the live video I saw on Facebook it looked like everyone had a lot of fun. Lawrence says he plans to go back a couple of more times. Given what we saw in their game against Alabama I wouldn't bet against him.
Trumpit said...So, I ask in all earnestness, what job is he suited for?
Well, he's done a damn fine job as president, so I suggest we start by keeping him there another 6 years. Then I would support a well deserved retirement. Lots of golf and hanging out in his hotel lobbies
And besides, if this kind of food is good enough for our president, then it's good enough for our football champions.
["I don’t see why you posted this, Althouse."
That's always the question, isn't it?
Discuss!]
An obscenely greedy and gluttonous man with an ostentatious display of heart-attack-on -a-plate junk food while millions of children starve worldwide. This is in extremely bad taste. Please pardon the bad pun. Starving black children -
who the f*ck cares? They come from sh*thole countries.
https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/5-worst-spots-hunger
"Infinite Monkeys said...
Food they are used to, they don't have to worry about which fork to use, and it will make a 100x better story to tell in later years. When they're older and have kids, how great will it be, every time they take the kids to McD's, to be able to say, "This reminds me of when I was invited to dinner at the White House."
Clemson, like any major college football program, has nutrition program to make sure, as best they can, that their players eats right. They are not feasting on fast food on a regular basis. This would be a treat.
Gee I wonder what Philip Bumptious consumed during his matriculation at Ohio State. And I also wonder if Philly was a bit upset the Buckeyes were left out of the big dance.
What could be more American? ;-D
And if Trump is an example of fast-food nutrition, maybe we should all indulge!
"They can't keep this bullshit up for 2 years."
They already have - 3+ years and ongoing, not counting much less intense leadups and trial runs over a decade or more, with some notable wall-to-wall campaigns - contra Sarah Palin for instance, or against the Tea Party.
As for reactions, etc. This is propaganda.
Its not substance. It is volume, ubiquity, every time you turn on the TV news or your news aggregator or your social media. Or your football game or your entertainment channels.
And if it doesn't work on you, its not meant for you.
Probably the same stuff Bama players are eating today. Trump the Egalitarian!
Where's the arugula?
I cannot tell what those boxes say? Are they any particular fast food establishment?
or are they simply boxes that make it look like fast food?
Impeach!
It is an embarrassment. It shows a lack of respect to the team. How about grilling steaks? Not enough employees? That’s right. Trump doesn’t have the executive power to bring back a few workers for his kitchen? He can do anything else.
I’m sure those cold fries tasted yummy.
Where was the kfc?
Trump's love of fast food is a connection to the deplorables.
The hack press will never get that.
@Trumpit
On a completely unrelated topic to this post I have a question. What is it like being angry all the time? Did Trump fuck your high school sweetheart? Does Trump pay rent to live full-time inside your head? what is it?
Grilling steaks? That would need to be done outside to be most effective. It is January.
I'm sure the top Dems and their aides and lobbyists who flew off to Puerto Rico to see Hamilton during the shutdown had much fancier meals.
A most entertaining President - normally I would not even pay attention to a White House visit by a championship team (not to detract from their great season - I just don't care), but now he has got all the usual suspects apoplectic.
"The Xing superstar pounds[sic] a whopping 12,000 calories per day. His diet consists of a pound of pasta, an entire pizza, three fried egg sandwiches, grits, and french toast to name a few[sic]. After going viral[sic], the Mr. Y diet sparked a the[sic] 'Mr. Y Challenge' where people attempt eat for an entire day like the Xer."
X = swim.
Y = Mark Phelps.
"Where was the kfc?"
And risk getting called racist.
[@Trumpit
On a completely unrelated topic to this post I have a question. What is it like being angry all the time? Did Trump fuck your high school sweetheart? Does Trump pay rent to live full-time inside your head? what is it?]
I don't respond to insulting comments from deplorable, janky old clowns. I won't sink to your level. We're in a life and death struggle to rid our country of a monumental ignoramus and beast of a president. I don't know why this blog is the gathering place for far right-wing, mostly retired, retarded rejects like you. Answer that question.
buwaya said... "And if it doesn't work on you, its not meant for you."
Brilliant.
I am Laslo.
"We're in a life and death struggle to rid our country of a monumental ignoramus and beast of a president."
It's almost like fighting the Nazis in World War II, ain't it? (which my sainted Grandfather from the Bronx did).
Hate causes cancer and other illnesses, deaths among well known liberals expected in the next few years.
Joseph "Joey" Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding.[1][2][3] Mellen then filmed Amanda's own self-trepanation for a documentary entitled Heartbeat in the Brain.[2]
Mellen and Feilding lived together from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding-Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding-Mellen (born 1985).[4] Rock Feilding-Mellen is a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council.[5]
In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995.[6] Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.
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In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.[2]
No porcupine?
An obscenely greedy and gluttonous man with an ostentatious display of heart-attack-on -a-plate junk food while millions of children starve worldwide.
Written by the idiot who feeds cheeseburgers to seagulls.
Trumpit said, "I don't know why this blog is the gathering place for far right-wing..."
It's official Ann. Your blog is now a hate-site. Right up there with the Daily Stormer. SPLC listing comes next.
Looks like there's no point hiding my SS uniform anymore. Time to dust that baby off and get to goose-stepping.
I’m at a meeting right now. I do 2 to 4 a week this time of year. My favorite, is a deli meats. buffet. Trying to serve a meal and maintain quality is usually a fail
Since from Trumpit's view, Stalin was right-wing, not sure it's a concern.
It is an embarrassment. It shows a lack of respect to the team.
Really? That's not what the players said. So, you know better than the people who were actually there?
Maybe he should've fed them dog. You know, like the last guy.
And if it doesn't work on you, its not meant for you.
No. It only means it didn't work on you.
"I don’t see why you posted this, Althouse"
Ann likes to post things where one side has successfully played the other side.
Trump won this exchange in a big way. He has successfully demonstrated that the media doesn't just hate him, they also hate anybody who eats fast food. To anybody that enjoys fast food in anyway he has also validated his statements that he doesn't receive fair coverage and that the media is the "enemy" of the people.
I was wondering who Hunter Walker is. He lives in Brooklyn, is 34 and has a beard. At least he doesn't use Gillette blades. See below. He probably cried the night Trump won.
"Hunter Walker (born September 10, 1984) is a reporter from Brooklyn, New York.[1] Currently, Walker is the politics editor[2] for Business Insider. Previously, he was the national affairs reporter for Talking Points Memo[3] and a senior editor at the New York Observer.
Before joining the Observer, Walker was employed by The Daily where he helped launch the gossip section with former Page Six editor Richard Johnson.[4]
Prior to working at The Daily, Walker covered television for TheWrap.com.[5] During 2008 and 2009 he worked as the Editor of Mediabistro.com's events newsletter The Press List[6] and as a Contributing Editor for the Mediabistro.com blogs WebNewser[7] and FishbowlNY.[8] From 2007-2008, he was the Assistant Editor of Gawker Media's urban travel blog Gridskipper.[9]
Walker has also contributed to the web sites of a variety of publications including; the Village Voice,[10] New York Magazine,[11] Forbes,[12] National Geographic,[13] and BlackBook Magazine.[14] Walker has also written for Gawker.com.[15] He is a 2010 graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.[16] "
"We're in a life and death struggle to rid our country of a monumental ignoramus and beast of a president."
Life and death struggle? Really?
Like Soviet gulag life or death, or just generic liberal-arts college-student coffee-shop drama-queen life or death?
And -- perhaps connected -- regarding the effects of syphilis: many of those patients had characteristics of more than one syndrome, including cognitive impairment, personality disorders, delirium, hostility, dysarthria, confusion, disruption of their sleep–wake cycle, fecal and urinary incontinence, dysphoria, paranoia, hallucinations, expansive mood, and mania.
So: what did you stick your dick in to get this crazy?
I am Laslo.
The God Emperor has the common touch. The normals understand that. The cultural elites in the media do not have a clue so they scream in a beta boy tantrum while the real Americans laugh at them.
Troll level....Grsndmaster.
...is 34 and has a beard
What's her name?
" they scream in a beta boy tantrum while the real Americans laugh at them."
The questions are -
- How many "real Americans" are left?
- And do these have enough power left to prevail against the mass of interests and institutions that want to destroy whats left of them?
Steve Uhr said "It is an embarrassment. It shows a lack of respect to the team. How about grilling steaks?"
Shut the fuck up, cunt. The players were happy, so why should anyone pay any attention to some twat bitching about it? Perhaps a bag of dicks would be more to your culinary tastes.
Discuss!
I accept the challenge! I have already ruled out that you think we need yet another reminder of how much the Post and its brain-damaged left wing lunatic commentators hate Fonald Trump. Other possibilities:
(1) You are a foodie and repelled by Big Macs and Quarter Pounders with cheese. I rate this a low probability because I remember you posting a photo of a revolting, greasy sandwich consumed by commentator Edjumaked Redneck.
(2) You graduated from Michigan, and a football player pinchd your bottom in a campus bar. Then as now Michigan was a football factory, so when you complained you were told that you should feel honored to be pinched on the butt by a football player and next time just turn the other cheek. Ever since then you have hated college football players. I rate this as a likely possibility.p
Sorry Grandmaster. I hate posting on an IPhone.
We know that Trumpit is Haitian so his intellect is at the bottom of the curve like most of the illegals that want to come into our beautiful America and infect it with their disease.
You ask the right questions but it is AIDs that Haitians bring to our shoes from their shithole country.
You know Trump has scored a touch down when the butt hurt like S Uhr come out to howl and sputter. Pee pee hasn't woken from his drunk stupor yet but he will come by soon enough to make the same butt hurt remarks.
Presumably the people who turn out this Garbage Food deserve at least $15 an hour.
Obama would NEVER have paid for this himself.
“The questions are -
- How many "real Americans" are left?
- And do these have enough power left to prevail against the mass of interests and institutions that want to destroy whats left of them?”
You will see my friend. President Trump is just the most benign manifestation of the revolt of the normals. The next incarnation will be much different and not anywhere as nice. You will see it soon... especially if the Deep State removes him from office. The Nixon template failed so I believe they will use the Kennedy model. Then the shit will hit the fan.
This doesn’t compare to what players are severed before bowl games so you can imagine how they sized up Trump—cheap.
No I've never met a Haitian as stupid as this nazgul they are diligent and conscientious to a fault.
Listen to what the actual players said and not faggot soy boys from the press. The players are the American people. These press homos are the enemy of the people. They show it every time.
" so why should anyone pay any attention to some twat bitching about it? "
Twat-Americans vote too.
Whenever I want to know what elite college athletes are thinking about their food options, I always ignore what those athletes actually say and what they actually consume and how they actually behave and instead I substitute the musings of some leftist online, like r/v.
I wonder if anyone at ESPN and the other failing rags in the sports dept. notice how politically out of step they are with their viewership? ESPN is hemorrhaging viewers since they became "woke" and they are kidding themselves if they think it's just because of cord cutting.
steve uhr: "It is an embarrassment"
All of your comments are, but why dwell on it?
If he had served wagyu beef and lobster people would be up in arms that he would splurge on such extravagance during a gov't shutdown when gov't employees are 'struggling to pay their bills' or whatever.
The man can't win, so the question becomes why bother? Why bother doing what the left wants when you will gain zip zilch nada by doing so?
The left didnt buy the players any food at all so they should just STFU. Of course, that's what they should be doing that anyway considering they haven't had a new idea since Oct 1917. They serve no purpose other than to tear down and destroy.
while millions of children starve worldwide.
Worldwide, poverty and hunger are at all time lows. There aren't millions of children starving anymore, and food scarcity is now due to politics and corruption.
“Twat-Americans vote too.“
They will never vote for President Trump or true Americans. So they should be ignored, laughed at and marginalized. You never win catering to them. They don’t care about what the normals think so why should we care about them?
Guess what happened last spring/summer ----
The Clemson team's visit is its second since Trump took office.
The Tigers last visited in June 2017 after their championship run the previous season. That day, the White House served a barbecue lunch that star wide receiver Hunter Renfrow called at the time "the best meal I've had in a year."
When you here some liberal twat opine about how the Republicans have a “female” President blended they never mention that the Liberals have a Man problem.
Increasingly the Democrats have a white problem. If they pick a far left sjw like Kamel Toe Harris or a homo like Corey Booker there will be a blowout of McGovern proportions.
Just another way the WaPo and its readership scorns the way most people live. Some of what Trump says and does really concerns me, but I can always count on the media and the coastal a-holes to remind me that there is no better alternative.
Yes R/V. One of the players said it was the best buffet ever.
Oh..yer sphincter just spasemed..so sorry.
I especially appreciated Bump's fact checking of Trump's claim that the burgers were stacked "a mile high". Who's says that journalism is dead in America?
Though..pizza served by a throng of the bethonged might trump this.
"They serve no purpose other than to tear down and destroy."
No, they also create systems. The US corporatist complex is their great achievement.
The closely interrelated system of educational, bureaucratic, political, F1000-management, high finance, consultancies, NGO's, Qangos, and legal infrastructure gives them control. Its not really "leftist" in some Marxian-Leninist sense, as so much of it is simply about making and keeping vast amounts of money. It is a ruling caste system, with its own peculiar ideology as a religion-substitute.
Dave Begley: Wow . . . so Hunter Walker is a leftist? And a walking-stereotype leftist at that? Color me shocked.
On Instapundit there's a quote from someone asking if " . . . anyone on the left react so indignantly when Bill Clinton ate conspicuously at McDonald’s when he was a candidate and then president? (And just why do you suppose he made such a public spectacle of eating Big Macs, eh? He wasn’t called “Bubba” for a deficient grasp of populism.)"
Buwaya as always brings a nice macro analysis of this daily trench warfare. Are we at the point in this country where you could draw apt parallels to Oliver Cromwell and the "round heads"? I can think of quite a few deep staters I would love to see on the chopping block.
I don’t think Cromwell is the right historical comparison.
I see Trump as Georges Danton.
I eagerly await the appearance of Robespierre.
It's not merely dead, but it's gone zombie.
God, Trump is fun. Fun!
@Althouse, does anybody know whatever happened to Edjumakated Redneck, Hoosier Daddy, Garage Mahal, and other commentators from a decade ago?
Big Mike, I always thought "garage mahal" was one of the several pseudonyms of the genius now calling himself "President Pee Pee."
This is just one more squanderment of credibility by Trump haters. If this is on your radar, it must be pretty empty otherwise.
"Where's the arugula?" she asked.
It left with Michelle
Football player: "What the hell is this crap?"
(eaglebeak)
Trumpit said: ...while millions of children starve worldwide.
Logically, by that reasoning, the only suitable approach would be to serve Clemson players nothing at all.
He's Stonewall Trump, who also knows more than one way to spell a word.
Strumpit is a performance artist, just enjoy her posts!
Strumpit is a performance artist, just enjoy her posts!
Nope. I know people like her. They fill the local editorial page with letters to the editor spewing the same nonsense.
Trump gets it. The left and the LLRs don't.
If I had a better opinion of Trump I'd suspect that this was a trap. Like one day he just said to an adviser "Hey, I bet that I can get a great photo-op, increase my goodwill with voters, and make my opponents look like snobs for just three grand".
Either way I imagine that there were dozens of lefty public relation types praying that their bosses would say nothing.
Here's the best part. The Post writer felt the necessity of fact checking Trump when he said, "It was piled a mile high."
Here is the Post fact check:
"FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high."
Really? You need to fact check that?
If only Russia would release those 30,000 emails.
i hope they saved a few Whoppers Junior for the Attorneys General
AZ Bob - Really? please say that you knew the WP fact check was a joke.
Does anyone go to the White House for the Food?
Trump's love of Fast food is a brilliant PR move.
Its astounding that the son of a millionaire, who went to an elite school, who's lived his entire life in NYC, and is now a Billionaire, comes off as an "Average Joe".
For a contrast see John Kerry. Trump is much more elite than "Jenghis Kahn Kerry" but most American see Kerry as an elitist douchbag.
Personally, I've always hated McDonald's (except for the french fries).
It’s just possible that Trump has “the common touch” and it isn’t about laying traps or outsmarting the enemy.
Blogger steve uhr said...
AZ Bob - Really? please say that you knew the WP fact check was a joke.
The ridiculous shit coming out of the WaPo, how are we supposed to know what is and isn’t a joke? It all looks like a joke to me.
How is the “mile high” joke any different than “Russia, if your listening”? They were both obvious jokes.
The New Yorker also has an article of their own which you can read from their Facebook page, "The Pure American Banality of Donald Trump’s White House Fast-Food Banquet". The article is not too bad - in fact, it is pretty bland - but then there are the comments, mostly from people that just haven't got a clue.
This is the problem of course in the 80s, Jonathan schell occasioned surrender in the cold war in the 90s they clobbered over Clinton and in 00s Jane Mayer and George packer painted chiaroscuro nightmares about the war on terror, so much so a third rate mystery novelist named Joe ide is still obsessed over Abu ghraib
They can keep this shit up 2 more years easily. Even 6 more years will not be difficult.
gahrie said...
while millions of children starve worldwide.
Worldwide, poverty and hunger are at all time lows. There aren't millions of children starving anymore, and food scarcity is now due to politics and corruption.
Food scarcity since I've been born has been due to politics and corruption. I'm now 63. Didn't know that when I was young; it wasn't- and isn't- what's taught in schools. Rhodesia was once the breadbasket of Africa and net exporter of food. Zimbabwe now imports food and a large percentage of it's people starve. But hey- at least they can be proud of not being named after Cecil Rhodes anymore! That'll teach those evil white people a lesson! And Venezuela- used to be, if not rich, a well to do country. Now the people kill zoo animals for meat and flee to other nations for jobs. Or in the case of many of their women, to sell or rent their bodies. But healthcare in Venezuela is FREE! Proof that socialism works!
"The Pure American Banality of Donald Trump’s White House Fast-Food Banquet".
Yes, written to recall “The banality of evil”
Anne posted this because, as so often, this attack on Trump is really an attack on Trump voters, and lower class Americans generally. The WaPo people cannot hide their disdain. That interests Althouse.
That interests Althouse.
It doesn’t interest you that the political party that for generations, since FDR at least, styled itself the party of the working man has become the party of the hyper wealthy and the party of affluent America? It seems like a pretty interesting story to me.
FDR, after all, famously offered an English king a hot dog.
Of course the pre Bezos post clobbered all over Obama on burgers in 2010, on Michelle waxing on fries in 2014.
AZ Bob - Really? please say that you knew the WP fact check was a joke.
1/15/19, 7:22 PM
So you're saying that the Post was engaging in some good-natured teasing? Maybe so the with fact check but the whole point of the story was to mock the affair. How dare they have a good time in the White House eating fast food.
Aww, how cute. Low-quality food for low-information voters. Darling.
Everyone's got their favorite fast-food joint to check out from time to time. But Puppet Trump's display is nauseating due to the self-inflicted nature of his crisis. Perhaps he can run air traffic control and TSA scanners on burger grease. This is just simplistic ineptitude of the highest order.
Besides, these displays of the "common touch" get repulsively deceptive and old. If he were such a salt of the earth he'd be cutting costs by living in a trailer, or log cabin. (One of our presidents did that). Not showing off all the crap he can foot the bill for in a state house that's still being staffed by umpteen butlers and whatnot.
The idiocy of the entire thing.
OK. Ran across a joke on this that was actually funny. (and you can just imagine Johnny Carson doing it in his monolog)
"He served McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's, and got Taco Bell to pay for it."
If he were such a salt of the earth he'd be cutting costs by living in a trailer, or log cabin. (One of our presidents did that).
I presume you're referring to Bill Clinton.
As the father of two competitive swimmers and having to feed them during swim season, I'm wondering if 300 burgers was enough food.
PPPT is still so upset that Hillary lost that he can’t think straight. It’s sad, really.
Ha, ha. Ha^1000.
not that Ann would care, but the Clemson quarterback has denied making the remarks he was quoted as making:
https://apnews.com/f50d30aa3c944d1fbb46c91486c7fd23
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