# Trump serving fast food to Clemson players during White House visit **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783 "2019-01-15T05:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783/81 "2019-01-21T00:57:05Z")
Big Macs have electrolytes. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783/82 "2019-01-21T10:46:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Have you looked up Clemson on a map? Fried chicken and watermelon are two of the primary food groups. (I know this–I live around 20 miles away from the campus.) My wife went to USC (Gamecocks, not that west coast school) during the 1980s. The athletes had their own dorm and dining hall. They ate a lot of steak, courtesy of the boosters. Now I doubt that the IPTAY crowd were going to be outdone by their main rivals, so I’m guessing that the Clemson football team ate at least as well, and still does. So my WAG is that lukewarm fast food berders is a step down from their everyday eats. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783/83 "2019-01-21T10:53:13Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I mean, if your buddy who is not rich, invited you over to his house for dinner and he served McDonald’s take out, you would think that he was socially awkward at least. My friends tend to be the definition of socially awkward, but precisely because of that would never serve McD takeout. Chinese, Indian, italian… yes. But not stuff that you need to eat between “oh shit it burns” and “you sure this ain’t rubber?” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783/84 "2019-01-21T11:01:30Z")
At any rate, _are you fucking kidding me?!_ Forget whether burgers _per se_ were tacky. He couldn’t have hired a crew to grill burgers on the spot, so they could have been served hot, thick, and juicy? And with trays of fresh lettuce, sliced tomato, pickles, onions, and condiments so that everyone could have fixed their burger the way they wanted, rather than just having to take it however it came out of the box?? Same idea, but about ten times better. I bet he was too much of a cheapskate to pay for catering. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783/85 "2019-01-21T14:28:58Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > _Someone_ got billed for it, but I’m waiting for a suspicious entry to show up on the financial records of his campaign or some other entity full of other people’s money. If he hadn’t had his charity taken away, I’d assume that paid for the food. Of course he had the campaign pay for it. And BTW has he not agreed, in a court order, to never operate another “charity”, or is that just his kids who are so bound? > [@JohnT](#): > > Clemson athlete: “I thought it was a joke” > [@Jophiel](#): > > From Sarah Sanders:… > > It also feels disrespectful to the athletes who will probably be at a White House event once in their lives and are greeted with the least possible amount of effort but you’ve got Trump looking for praise because “I like burgers” and “I paid for it myself!” > [@RTFirefly](#): > > At any rate, _are you fucking kidding me?!_ > > I bet he was too much of a cheapskate to pay for catering. Of course he was. Even though he was stealing the money from his campaign fund anyway. Remember: This is the “billionaire” who needed a charity to pay his kid’s $7 Boy Scouts fee. He’s running some sort of GoFundMe for _The Wall_. Is it a safe guess that most of that money is actually routed to his campaign fund? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-serving-fast-food-to-clemson-players-during-white-house-visit/827783.md?page=4)