Imagine going to the White House and being served a cold ass fast food cheeseburger.
This
Submitted 10 months ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This is high class to his voters.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 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 10 months ago
It’s crazy that the only thing photoshopped in that picture is the size of his hands.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Zing!
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 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.
Bonehead@kbin.social 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 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.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
But he looks so proud of himself. Can you really hate him for that?
Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 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.
Nightwind@lemmy.world 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 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 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 10 months ago
But also… the picture.
He basically did a McBang.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
It was a college football team. Basically a bunch of dudes in the early 20s. You think they care about fine dining?
eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Obama looked fly in the tan suit, this just looks fucking awful.
7u5k3n@lemmy.world 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
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 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?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 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 10 months ago
It’s kinda funny. And don’t you mean tan suit?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Yes, that’s what I meant.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My biggest problem with this is that he didn’t have any Taco Bell.
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Covfefe
glitch1985@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hamberders
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The painting swap doesn’t add much to this, but is otherwise fitting.
SapphironZA@lemmings.world 10 months ago
You are what you eat after all.
finestnothing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can confirm, I told my wife that I’m a pussy and she just said that I’m also an ass
badbytes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Perfect photo summing up his presidency.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m gonna be 100% honest here. I would do this if i were president.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 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.)
vox.com/…/trump-clemson-mcdonalds-burger-king-wen…
“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 months ago
Coreidan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s that? Serve a bunch of cold mediocre food? Yum!
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There is a mountain of reasons to bash this dipshit. This… this was genius.
Now if you’ll excuse me, that pile of Wendy’s on the left is calling my name…
Blyfh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“HELLO PEOPLE OF AMERICA. IN THIS MUKBANG, WE’RE GONNA TRY–”
Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He even looks like he’d smell like he just farted
get_off_the_phone@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ok, maybe I’m ignorant, maybe I found the phrase “body fart” hilarious, maybe both. But can someone please tell me what is the difference between a regular fart and a body fart?
Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Excessively smelly usually because of intolerance to foods, swallowing air or if you get constipated because of stress so your body is expelling all the air it can possibly find in the colon.
inconel@lemmy.ca 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.
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 10 months ago
Partially explains the smell.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Also explains why he needs adult diapers.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 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 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.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They went because they felt they had to
Anything that makes it more casual and less of an obligation is a good thing
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 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.”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Well you probably never accomplished anything but most people, especially kids would rather party
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The food is great. Y’all just want to be contrarian.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oh yes I’m sure all that fast food tasted great after two and a half hours of sitting around while the entire batch was cooked, then transported, then arranged carefully, then had all the eventgoers show up to room temperature food.
McDonald’s barely tastes that f I wait more than 10 minutes after getting it in the car…
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
spare me the monologue from S1E1 of Girls. No, its not a good thing that a massive corporation can make cardboard food similar across a global supply chain.
It’s wasteful, decadent, corpo-simp trash thats bad for the individual, the society and the ecosystem.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Says someone with negative 2000 karma
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lololol my views are far more represented in the general population. Being on the lemmy mob is contrarian.
Ewwwwe, this fast food that everyone loves, soooo gross!
explodicle@local106.com 10 months ago
We have total karma?
Artyom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This guy exclusively writes shitty contrarian troll comments. A great time to block a user.
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The irony.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
'MURICA! WE GOT THE BRAINS!
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How many burgers were served? Multiply that by a hundred to get an estimate of how many innocent cows were slaughtered for this circus. But sure, it being cheap food is the thing to complain about.
discostjohn@programming.dev 10 months ago
Your logic implies that a hundred cows are killed to source a single burger. That’s not how that works. Be vegan, but don’t be stupid.
archonet@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Be vegan, but don’t be stupid.
I think you found the problem there, sport.
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My math was bad admittedly - I didn’t take into account that most or all of those patties likely came from the same processing facility; so that even if 100 body parts are in one patty, 100 patties might contain the tissues of the same 100 cows that were slaughtered. In all that table might be a picture of 100, 1,000, or 10,000 body parts mutilated beyond recognition and mixed together.
My intent was not to suggest that it takes 100 cows to make one burger, that would be untrue. My intent was to point out exactly what the article was getting at, which is to recognize that when someone looks at most ground meat products, they are looking at a grotesque slurry of what used to be not just one living being, but the combined flesh of as many as a hundred or more once-living sentient beings.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder how many mice died for the bun (and forests too)
QuaffPotions@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you’re referring to crop deaths, you should know that nonsense has been so thoroughly debunked that anyone should feel embarrassed to be perpetuating that lie still.
thorbot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hot garbage president serves cold garbage food
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 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 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.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Seriously… Look at how cold that all looks!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure what your angle is here but it was reported to have been cold lol
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The salads might be ok. Might.