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A Fast Food Feast at the White House
This is the picture making the rounds on Twitter over the last twelve hours:
This is the greatest photo of the Trump era, hands down. pic.twitter.com/1kvj9Ox6eo
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 15, 2019
Due to the government shutdown, the White House is short-staffed, leading President Trump to order a feast of fast food. The Washington Post reported,
When the Clemson football players entered the White House’s opulent State Dining Room during their visit with President Trump on Monday, they were greeted by a sight many had likely never laid eyes on before.
In the center of the historic room that has hosted royalty, foreign dignitaries and celebrities, a long mahogany table gleamed under the glow of an enormous golden chandelier. A pair of ornate candelabras holding tapered white candles sat on the table amid numerous silver serving platters piled high with what Trump described as “Great American food.”
Funny enough, while the Post described Trump as “roasted” for the move, Cleveland.com reported the Internet was “loving it.”
I was recently in that room for the White House Hanukkah party, and saw the opulence the room is capable of. The sight of boxed burgers on our nation’s finest china makes me uncomfortable, no matter how funny the moment. Guests of the White House shouldn’t have to eat McDonald’s.
But what was the alternative? If Trump had managed to serve a banquet, if he had fed them better food, the headlines would have read “DONALD TRUMP HOSTS FANCY PARTIES WHILE FEDERAL WORKERS ARE LITERALLY IN BREAD LINES.”
It still hasn’t been reported (that I’ve seen, anyway) what Democrats are eating while on a “work trip” to Puerto Rican beaches. Just saying.
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You know, he owns a hotel right there in Washington DC. It has a resturaunt. He could have had food sent over from there. And he’s a billionaire (he says), so he could have paid for it himself.
Do you know that he didn’t?
How you know they hate fast-food-eating regular Americans:
“At Home with the Hillbillies and Hamberder’s”
Nice. Keep it up lefties (and Trump haters)! Keep reminding us we’re knuckle dragging hillbillies who would never vote for AOC or Beto or “I’m gonna get me a beer” Fauxcahontas. See you in 2020.
And, yes, he did pay for it according to his tweet.
No offense but I think this is a little silly. Food is food and I don’t think we should get too high and mighty about it. After all, an American president once fed the king and queen of England hot dogs. I think this was a fun and inventive way to handle a problem.
I’m a little disappointed with Trump for this. He had the opportunity to bring in Chik-Fil-A (a.k.a. Hate Chicken) and melt down the internet.
This could be entry #1 in a new publication, The Daily Kerfuffle, based on trivial activities of the Prez that make the left’s collective heads explode.
I think this is fantastic. It is wonderful to see the left melt down over everything President Trump does.
I think it was fun. These aren’t heads of state, they are college kids. Football players, no less. They eat a lot. If you tried to give these guys an arugula salad and roast spring lamb, you might have a riot on your hands.
When my Dad received the National Medal of Technology at the Whote House in 2006, we had finger foods. Granted it was only late morning by the time the ceremony was over, but the Clemson player were treated to a feast compared to what we had.
Donald Trump doesn’t have highbrow taste in food.
This is the 2 scoops of ice cream thing all over again.
Betcha not even the Queen of England has ever drank Coca Cola from a cut-glass goblet in the State Dining Room.
I would rather eat a MacDonald’s hamburger and fries than a fancy-shmanzy meal of litttle over-prepared and precious dollops on a piece of china.
Perhaps that’s why I voted for Trump. He’s my kind of guy.
You think they wouldn’t like lamb? Why? Roast lamb is delicious.
My worry about the fast food feast is that it would end up being served cold. And cold fast food isnt that good. Most fast food places dont have the capacity to make so much food at once. Now if they had it catered and made on site that could work. The judgement of this hangs on this one question was the food warm? If it wasn’t this was a lazy ploy. If it was warm then it was a fine feast.
Fair.
The Washington Post has what looks like a serious analysis, with charts and diagrams, trying to estimate the cost of the meal. I can’t quite tell if there are trying to be funny or if they think this is important. They even had a fact check. Burgers were not stacked an entire mile high (that has to be an attempt at humor, right?)
Put me in the “it was endearing” camp, as well. And at least twitter was reporting that Trump footed the bill. I’m semi-reliably informed that this is a thing rich people do (it was done in the movie Kingsmen: The Secret Service, and in the discussion of that movie it came up as an actual thing).
Every time I think Trump can’t exceed himself at trolling his enemies, he surprises me.
I know In-N-Out Burger has at least one food truck that can do this. When I was stationed at Los Angeles Air Force Base, a colonel catered In-N-Out for his promotion ceremony to brigadier general. They brought a truck onto base and served us that way. Cold fries are the worst.
I hear about In-n-out from my California friends. My impression was that they were a bit swankier than McDonald’s like the Panera of Burgers. Like I said. You can do fast food feast right, and you can do it wrong. If you do it right I think it is perfectly good. I happen to really like McDonald’s, and fast food made right is better than fancy food made wrong. I’ve been to catered events where I would much rather have had a Big Mac.
Lincoln in the back saying what the **** did you people do to my party?
Not sure if swankier is the right adjective. In-N-Out has a simple menu with fresh ingredients. Cheeseburgers, fries, shakes, and drinks. That is all. The fries are cut in house; you get to hear the SWANK as potatoes are ran through the cutter.
I agree with you about fast food done right being better than fancy food done wrong. It can’t be cold.
I’m beginning to think this Trump fellow is not like other Presidents.
I wonder how many times in the last 2 years an exchange like this has taken place:
“But… But… Sir, this simply isn’t done!“
“Yeah? We’re doing it.”
Ronald McDonald has the country exactly where he wants us!!! First he got his man in the oval office and now he has burgers in the state dining room!!!
Here we have clear, incontrovertible evidence of the President meeting with a high-ranking McDonaldland official and what’s the response from the Mueller investigation? Crickets, and some nonsense about a farcical Russian dossier.
I wonder how many of you would be reacting this way if Obama did the same thing.
Who?
I’d pay cash money to watch Michelle eat a Filet-o-Fish.
It’s a bunch of football players I don’t think anyone really cares.
Maybe they should start catering the White House press conferences. Reporters are suckers for free chow.
”Here is your Happy Meal, Mr. Acosta.”
You voted for Trump so he could invite champion athletes to the White House, serve them cold garbage food, and make the event all about himself?