Junk in neat stacks
He’s doing it again.
In State Dining Room where Trump is about to present another college football team (North Dakota State University Bisons) with another of his legendary junk food feasts. Making America great, one Big Mac at a time. pic.twitter.com/7dm39ZxHCW
— Sebastian Smith (@SebastianAFP) March 4, 2019
Never mind that these college kids might prefer to have something more elegant and memorable to match the surroundings, just give them the crap they can get for a few bucks on any busy downtown corner.
It’s just such a condescending dismissive shit thing to do. It’s aimed squarely at his base though. Make him appear just like one of them.
Jesus christ, what a stinge he is.
And he doesn’t have the excuse of the government shutdown this time.
It’s more of his lack of theory of mind. He likes this garbage, so he thinks everybody will.
It’d be something else if they ported McDonald’s straight to the WH kitchens (I’m assuming they’ve got the correct facilities to replicate it), but at best lukewarm food from blocks away pleases no one.
It wouldn’t be very MUCH else though, for the reason I mentioned – it’s something anyone can buy anywhere. It’s commonplace and easy to get, and it’s cheap. It’s not special. To little kids it may be special, but to anyone else it’s just not – not visit to the White House special. Even with his crap theory of mind you’d think he’d get that much, given his taste for Highly Obvious Luxury. That pile of crap on the table there is NO ONE’S idea of luxury.
He reminds me of Dr Zoidberg barging into a gallery and demanding “one art”.
https://youtu.be/nQVnRKIpzAU
Yeah, but that doesn’t seem to extend to eating…he seems to like the worst fast food crap he can find.
I remember when Bill Clinton was in the White House, a lot of people (both left and right) made fun of him because of his fondness for McDonald’s. Bill Clinton came from a poor background, and to a poor person, McDonald’s often seems like the height of luxury (this I know from personal experience). But he still had enough sense to know how you entertain the visiting honorees who had done something worth honoring. You don’t feed them cheap, cold burgers.
What you wanta bet a lot of Trump supporters mocked Clinton, and now defend Trump?
I can see liking McDonald’s a lot more easily than I can see thinking of it as the height of luxury, poor or not. It’s not special enough for that, even if it is a rare treat because you don’t have the spare cash.
It bugs me. I hate seeing people disappointed that way. I can so easily imagine being all excited about an invitation to the White House and then being crushed to see an insulting pile of styrofoam boxes.
Yeah, I would rather have the full dinner too, even when I was poor. But trust me, it can definitely seem the height of luxury when you haven’t seen other luxuries.
McDonalds wasn’t really a thing when I was young and poor in the 70s. We had vegetable gardens and chickens, geese, ducks. We ate a lot of vegetables, various eggs and the elderly or violent fowls, mostly. I suppose there must have been McDonalds around the place but I was never aware of them. I’ve been there exactly once, with my niece, about three years ago.
It didn’t seem very presidential. At the time.
latsot, if memory serves the dominant burger chain in ’70s Britain was Wimpy. I ate in one, once, a never-to-be repeated experiment. Dry, flavourless, and expensive, and the milkshake was so thick it defied all attempts to get it through the straw.
Somebody once told me that the beauty of MacDonalds was that wherever in the world one was, it was the one place where one could get food that was familiar. My response was that if I was travelling abroad I’d take my chances with the local food rather than be disappointed before I’d even taken a seat.
AoS:
Ah yes, Wimpy was a thing that existed, I never ate at one, but I seem to remember that their gig was that they cooked your “meal” from scratch when you ordered it. So it was slow fast food, which is if nothing else very British indeed. I had thought that Wimpy died out in the late 80s, but there was one at Durham Services on the A1 in about 2013.
Although now I come to think of it, the door to Durham Services might well be a time portal to the late 70s, it all fits.
AoS, I agree. I usually look for local places when I travel, and only stop at McDonald’s if I am on the Oklahoma turnpike and need a restroom or a cup of coffee (McDonald’s managed to get the monopoly for reststops on the turnpikes in Oklahoma).
I was in London a few years ago, and looking for the bus stop. The man who sold me the ticket told me it was by the McDonald’s. There were no enormous golden arches sticking high into the air above everything else on the landscape, so I had trouble finding the McDonald’s. I was unwilling to ask anyone on the street where the McDonald’s was; with my undeniably USA accent, I would be instantly rendering myself as a stereotype. Once I broke down and asked, it turned out no one knew.
That would not happen in my town…we have trouble supporting good restaurants, and they all go out of business, but we have three McDonald’s, which stay busy around the clock (even though I have never, ever spoken to anyone who eats at McDonald’s. They seem to manage to have constant business without anyone ever actually going there!).