Chump couldn't find a catering company to cater the event?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/25762856/white-house-offers-clemson-tigers-fast-food-feast-championship-celebration

SMFH

[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. I am a multi-billionaire but I need to tell you that I paid for these hamburgers!

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Knew he was paying personally and didn't want to get stiffed.

[TwistOneUp]

31. Bingo! nt

[DemInBuckhead]

3. Probably not

Not that I imagine he would have tried very hard, but it would be some horrible publicity here for the catering company if people found out they did a job for Trump during the middle of a gov't shutdown.

Of course he could have had food brought over from his hotel, but that actually would have cost him some coin.

[renate]

18. OMG that never occurred to me, but of course you're right!

I've been trying to give him the benefit of the doubt in thinking that he might have had good but misguided intentions in giving young men fast food in the White House (because I think it's rude to criticize a gift, even a shitty one, if the giver meant well), but you are absolutely right... he could totally have had his hotel cater it and paid for it himself. But he did not. And that says a lot about him.

[leftieNanner]

27. His hotel would probably charge $25

for a Big Mac and fries! And he wasn't gonna spend that much on the Clemson players.



(I wish the admins would put the puke smilie on the first page - with all the crap going on in the White House, I use it most of all.)

[Hekate]

4. Just a staged photo op.Poor old guy all alone in the WH with no staff had to send out for burgers...

...for the crowd. Awwwww. Don't we feel sympathetic for his plight? Don't we love how generous he is to those hungry young men?

Remember the tax-returns photo op? Tables piled high with folders to show how much work it was to get it done, which is why he wasn't sharing the info with us? The folders were filled with reams of blank paper.

[shanny]

9. Problem is he is known to eat junk food all the time

so the "poor me" schtick doesn't fly.

[Hekate]

11. Of course not. But apparently what's left of his base is parroting memes about steak and lobster...

...being inappropriate in these troubled times, so what did we expect.

He had other options, too many to count, and he chose to go with a low-class insulting photo op with burgers so he could look generous to FOX viewers.

[shanny]

12. You don't have to explain that to me.

One wonders why you would.

I just wonder why the World's Greatest Businessman and self-made billionaire who is paying out of his own pocket can only afford Mickey D's. And why even a Fux viewer couldn't put 2 and 2 together to ask the same question.

[exboyfil]

5. Couldn't his hotel have catered it

Seems really strange. Maybe he should have gone with those Super Long subs that are popular on Superbowl Sunday. I still can't believe Chik Fil A was left off. I hate to admit it but those Dominionists make a mean spicy chicken sandwich. Maybe eating one every so often will spare me from the fires.of hell.

[brooklynite]

10. Are you kidding? Trump properties hire undocumented aliens...

You can't allow people like that to prepare food for the White House...

[Grasswire2]

6. The catering menu from his hotel was posted here last night

Just a couple of blocks away.

He could have been a hero.

Instead, he's a schlub.

[mainstreetonce]

7. The team was just invited

To a real dinner by
Michael Srehan on ABC. Lobster,caviar,steak,whatever they want. He is paying himself.

[Claritie Pixie]

8. He owns a hotel a short distance away that could have sent food.

He's a sadistic asshole though. Everything he does is a big FU to this country and it's people.

[subterranean]

16. But then he'd be using his presidency for personal profit. And that's just wrong.

Just in case:

[Delmette2.0]

13. What about the WH chef?

Or does his family and staff have order their own takeout?

[fierywoman]

15. Apparently they are some of the furloughed workers.

[Delmette2.0]

17. Really? Well that kinda explains why the shut down is still going.

it doesn't effect him. He doesn't care what he eats, but the coaches and staff care what the athletes eat. Good nutrition matters.

I know we all splurge from time to time, but the WH can and should do better than cold fast food. Even personally paying the wages for furloughed kitchen staff (and the food) shouldn't matter.

I know, I know after 2-3 years of him you would think I wouldn't have such expectations.

[fierywoman]

20. I totally agree. As mentioned above, he does have a hotel with several restaurants

like a block away from the White House. He could have easily catered the event from there. But no-o-o-o-- God forbid he should spend any real money or care at all about anyone except himself. It occurred to me this morning that the price of the fast food for the athletes was the price of one of Melania's more moderately priced dresses.

[Delmette2.0]

24. He really doesn't care about anyone else.

I like what you said "the price of the fast food for the athletes was the price of one of Melania's more moderately priced dresses." He literally fed an entire football team for one of his wife's dresses.

[jmowreader]

14. Please tell me you're kidding

The cheap bastard owns a five-star hotel that has several restaurants in it...three blocks from the White House. You are NOT going to tell me he couldn't have borrowed a few cooks from that place to make steak and shrimp for a hundred people.

I think he's probably reveling in all the bad press this has drawn.

[rsdsharp]

19. Why did he do this?

I mean, why did he feed them at all? I've never heard of a national championship team (or Super Bowl champ, or World Series winner) being given dinner at the White House. It's usually a 5-10 minute photo op in the Oval Office, or on the steps of the South Portico, and then typically 3 or 4 months after the victory. Why a "dinner" seven days after the game?

[fierywoman]

21. Aren't they one of the few athletic teams who've won who actually agreed to go to

the White House? The others keep refusing his invites.

[rsdsharp]

23. Most of the pro teams have refused (or been disinvited by Trump),

although my Cubs went shortly after the 2016 World Series when Obama was President, and again the next summer for Trump.
But Trump hosted Alabama last year in April as 2017 national champions. There was no dinner, and I can't think of one under any other President, although this type of thing has been (or was) as traditional as the turkey pardon at Thanksgiving.

[bluescribbler]

22. He actually thought he was doing them a favot.

Shows just how clueless and out of touch he is.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. He couldn't find a catering company that would give him credit.

Payment in advance only, and don't forget to tip the driver.

Who would cater this, and leave the president without payment. In cash.

[gratuitous]

30. I know I wouldn't front Trump anything

Cash on the barrel head. In advance.

It also brings up the unfortunate fact of why Trump had to have the Clemson team over to the White House so soon after they won the game. Last year, Alabama didn't get to the White House until April. What was so all-fired important that Trump had to get the Clemson team to the White House in the dead of winter on a weeknight?

[LuckyLib]

32. Distraction, distraction, distraction.

It’s his main focus as pResident.

[Zoonart]

28. I think the West Wing staff is such a shit show...

They forgot about the schedule and there was no other way they could go.

[Gothmog]

29. "Trump is...a poor man's idea of a rich man and a weak man's idea of a strong man."--Carl Sagan

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