Just to add, this disgusting meal was perfectly in line with the “cufflinks incident” portrayed in the movie The Apprentice, which was apparently true. The opprobrious lawyer Roy Cohn had been instrumental in making Trump’s career and teaching him to become the unprincipled attack dog that he is today. When Cohn lay dying, Trump ceremoniously presented him with a gift – a pair of diamond-studded gold cufflinks from Tiffany’s adorned with Trump’s name. Except that they weren’t gold, those weren’t diamonds, and they had never even been near Tiffany’s. They were worthless knock-offs.
Trump has no ethics, no class, no taste, and absolutely no shame.
Donald Trump has been doling out diamond cuff links to unsuspecting pals as presents — but they’re actually fabulous fakes, sources say.
At least three recipients later learned that the glittery gifts were valuable only as mementos from Trump.
Actor Charlie Sheen recently called out The Donald for the ruse, saying Trump once gave him his own cuff links as a wedding present and boasted that they came from one of the city’s leading jewelers.
“He says . . . ‘I want to give you an early wedding gift as a gesture from me and Melania’ — and she doesn’t say a word, she’s very sweet and very pretty but just kinda sits there,” Sheen told the BBC, referring to a time he ran into Trump and his wife in a restaurant about five years ago.
“He says, ‘These are platinum diamond Harry Winston,’ and he pulls off his cuff links, and he gives them to me.”
The actor said he took the links to an appraiser six months later, only to learn that they were worthless.
“She took [her magnifying] loupe, spent about 4 seconds and kind of recoiled from it,” Sheen quipped. “She says, ‘In their finest moment, this is cheap pewter and bad zirconias.’ And they’re stamped ‘Trump.’”
I’m not sure “fabulous” is the right word to describe the cufflinks, maybe in the sense that their value is imaginary.
Trump is now claiming that, unlike the genius that he’s long claimed he himself possesses, Harvard students are so stupid that they literally cannot add 2+2.
Reminds me of a joke about 3 friends who each owe a dying fourth friend $100. He dies before the debts get paid. At the burial two of the guys solemnly drop Benjamins into the grave atop the coffin before the dirt goes back in the grave. The third drops in a check for $100.
The other day, I made chicken and dumplings using ingredients all acquired from Dollar Tree and the food bank. It was magnificent. I’ll take that over Trump’s plate.
What attendees may or may not have expected wasn’t really my point. It was billed as an upscale affair – the “Donald J Trump $TRUMP Gala Dinner”, and someone thought to spend at least some money on filet mignon and fresh halibut, finished, respectively, with demi-glace and citrus reductions. The pretentious wording of the menu clearly suggests they were aiming for an upscale experience. The point is, by all accounts it was badly cooked, the presentation was embarrassingly sloppy, the ingredients extremely basic, and it lacked any of the added ingredients and garnishes one would expect in something billed as a “gala” dinner. Like everything that Trump has anything to do with, it was a careless, incompetent mess that’s been justifiably ridiculed on social media. It was an insult to the guests. It was a typical Trump fiasco.
I just have to say that I occasionally make filets mignon at home. I use USDA Prime beef. I wrap it in very good bacon. I cook it to rare. (Or medium-rare, it I blow it.) It’s always good. Without even an interior shot of Trump’s beef, it looks overcooked.
I, for one, and having worked Silver Sevice in London’s prestigious Knightsbridge Millennium Hotel, so I have some familiarity with the finest of fine dining…
… am disappointed your moron-in-chief did not suppy ketchup.
(Also the plating is a train wreck, but as I am not a chef, I will let others go there.)
My wife and I are terribly spoiled re: steaks. We don’t do it very often, but we only buy from a particular butcher - Filet Mignon. And it’s the only steak I will serve friends.
It’s obscenely expensive $40/pound. A number of friends have said that it was/is the best steak they have ever had in their life. It’s worth it, and it’s that good.
Your comments are spot on. If NOTHING else, this guy is just a complete boor. Yet - knowing that - 50% of voters decided he was their guy!
ISTM that just about anyone with anywhere near his wealth and prominence, if they are as lacking in taste as he, they pay someone else to slap some facade of appropriateness on top. I’m trying to think of any other “celebrity/public figure” who is as absolutely lacking in the social graces as Trump. Unless it is someone like Roseanne Barr, where it is part of the act.
I’m not saying one needs to be all hoity toity Miss Manners. LBJ was famously down to earth/crude. But my impression is that he at least hired folk who could cook well.
Well yes. Been said before, a poor man’s caricature of what it’s like to be rich, a weak man’s caricature if what’s it like to be strong, etc. “When you’re a star you get away with it, you can grab them by the pussy.”
And that’s one of his selling points to his “base” - “The elite look down on you for being common. Just like they looked down on Dad and me for not being Old Money. Let ME show them and make them grind their teeth at having to sit there and take it from someone like me being above them.”
Trump has no self awareness whatsoever, so he has no idea that his taste is not necessarily the best, most magnificent taste there is. Therefore there is no need to ask anyone else, such as an expert.
The movie Devils Advocate used Trumps apartment in NYC as the Devils apartment (fitting). Trump did not realize they wanted the most garish, tasteless place they could find. They thought they would have to stage it with ridiculous decor.