That’s what I don’t understand about his obsession with fast food. At the White House, he has a chef employed by the government capable of making French fries or a hamburger or fried chicken from scratch, using better ingredients than the fast food restaurants and get the food served faster and fresher than sending someone out to buy real fast food. And when he’s at Mar-A-Lago, there is also a chef, though one paid by the club rather than the federal government.
Well, there’s this:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4239810-trump-terrified-of-being-poisoned-former-aide/
“He does have a very potent fear of being poisoned,” Hutchinson told comedian Jimmy Kimmel on his late night show. “So he uses and prefers the small Heinz glass ketchup bottles, because he likes to hear his valet or whoever’s serving him his meal, he likes to hear the ‘pop.’”
Wolff also linked the president’s deep fear of being poisoned to his apparent adoration for fast food, especially McDonald’s. It’s “one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s—nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” Wolff wrote.
Surely he can trust the White House chef (who, presumably, has been thoroughly investigated) or the Mar-A-Lago chef (someone who knows who he’s working for) not to poison or doctor his food?
Paranoia, by definition, isn’t entirely rational.
Wolff also linked the president’s deep fear of being poisoned to his apparent adoration for fast food, especially McDonald’s. It’s “one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s—nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” Wolff wrote.
Isn’t getting food from a random fast food place (or any random restaurant) somewhat normal for presidents, for exactly that reason? There’s less, if any, concern that food has been tampered with when no one knows it’s for the president.
A bribe-thru window. We could get one installed on every City, County, State, & Federal government building to make our journey to being a banana republic complete.
That’s the genius part! It’s all poisoned!
Maybe el presidente needs a food taster?
Or a couple. You can’t be too careful, maybe one has developed a resistance to iocaine powder.
I can’t remember who any more but some years ago I read the memoirs of one of the big-time reporters during WWII. He told about a few days before D-day he was invited to the White House for a background briefing about he had to sit on until the news broke. He arrived at 9pm and talked for a while with FDR. The President suddenly said, “Say, I’m hungry. Are you hungry? Let’s get something to eat,” picked up the phone and ordered a couple hamburgers be sent to the Oval Office.
In due time they arrived on a couple platters and, “It was the best damn hamburger I had in my life.” A while later the briefing was over and when he was being led out he asked if he could stop by the kitchen. There he raved to the chef who was on duty and the guy pointed to a chunk of prime rib sitting next to a grinder.
If it was made fresh from better ingredients, it wouldn’t taste the same as fast food.
It would almost certainly taste better, so who would prefer the fast food meal, especially since it would be cold by the time it got to him?
I won’t dive too deep into ultra-processed foods because I don’t know too much, but ultra-processed foods makes you want it.
As Stuart Mackenzie says in the “So I Married An Axe Murderer” documentary, “they put an addictive chemical in it that makes you crave it nightly!”.
Earlier this year, a staffer for Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) claimed that she was targeted by three men who bound her with zip ties, beat her up, and carved the words “Trump Whore” into her stomach.
Turns out she staged the entire thing, paid a scarrification artist $500 to carve the message onto her, and Googled “zip ties near me” before going out to buy them.
I had not previously heard this used towards a reporter; sorry.
I try not to listen to him as much as possible.
She wasn’t born yet when Tawana Brawley and Morton Downey Jr. claimed that similar things happened to them.
That sounds sane. 
Who could it be…? Someone who likes well-done steak with ketchup on it? Do we know anyone like that?
It amazes me that Trump, who has had money most of his life (even as a child, his family was wealthy), has such terrible taste. Heck, he even wears his neckties too long.
Aside from his never having emotionally matured beyond a grade school level, Trump suffers from an incurable case of Gatsby Syndrome. He’s New Money who wishes he was Old Money. The suits, the golfing, the obsession with gold - it’s all an attempt to affect the trappings of a social circle that wouldn’t have him because his dad made his money in the grocery business instead of inheriting it.
Since when does money equal good taste?