The Washington Post has analyzed the cost of the feast. My favorite nugget is contained in the comments:
The seriousness of the analysis in the Washington Post is hilarious.
I’m wondering, what do they typically serve at these receptions when they’re hosting sports teams at the White House. Do they just set out a cheese plate, crackers, cold cuts and a veggie tray with some ranch dip? Do they go a little fancier with a hot buffet setup? Or do they do an actual sitdown meal?
Back in the late '70s, my dad was channel surfing. Of course this was back when the remote control only had ON/OFF, VOLUME, and CHANNEL UP/DOWN buttons. So dad was going from one channel to the next, stopping just long enough to see what was on. I happened to be in the room at just the right time. He clicked to a religious program, and then immediately to the next channel, which had a commercial.
So the audio was this: ‘And the BANQUET was laid out on the table…’ click ‘Pup’N’Taco, Pup’N’Taco, Pup’N’Taco…’ click
Heck just one of Melania’s designer outfits would buy most of these burgers.
Must… resist… bad… joke…
Popeye’s is good. Mmm. That extra spicy chicken and some dirty rice is worth a 10 minute drive.
I heard that on a similar occasion, Obama served steak. I’ve been unable to find confirmation, and other reports are that of late, these sorts of things have been afternoon events and that the players were essentially served punch and cookies, as it wasn’t a mealtime.
It was still plenty tacky.
I read that his hotel charges around $100 per head for catering and that using his hotel would’ve cost over 25k in catering costs.
Meanwhile McDonalds has the 2 for $5 deal right now for big macs, quarter pounders, filet of fish, 10 pc mcnuggets (all of which were featured very prominently on the table). You can get 1000 of those sandwiches for $2500.
So we learned today that there is a 0% chance Trump is an actual billionaire.
HAH… this is post season so they aren’t so strict. Right after the season ends all rules get thrown out of the window for a while. Two of my kids played D1 NCAA sports and other than one or two kids on each team most would have no problem with this diet wise. They burn tons of calories even in the off season so that isn’t an issue for them.
That said, I’m sure they hoped for a big steak and lobster for the celebration.
There’s nothing tacky about hamburgers.
It’s the most basic All American food imaginable.
Gosh, grilling burgers for family gatherings has been a tradition my entire life.
I quite agree about hamburgers. But we’re talking McDonalds here, not good stuff that you grill.
I’d be surprised if Loser Donald has ever even seen a grill, much less prepared a hamberder on one.
To be fair, there were a bunch of salad plate things there as well, if the players were diet-conscious.
There is, naturally, all sorts of pointless fake crap going around. For the record, the Clemson QB did not say:
He did say:
And also:
A noticeable difference in writing style, BTW. But Trevor appears to have been fine with McD’s fare which, while failing to meet the “awesome” threshold, still warranted a rating of “good”. And it’ll be a fun story to tell the grandkids.
Still a fucking stupid, cheap and petty thing to do on Trump’s part though.
Surely one of his hotels could have put together some ground sirloin patties on brioche buns, maybe with aioli dressing. You could serve them with steamed vegetables and mashed sweet potatoes. Casual but classy.
I agree that it would have been better had Trump done this, than what he did do.
is this the first time Trump has had a fast food honor party at the White House?
A grill-out on the WH lawn would have been kind of cool (albeit not under the current weather). This wasn’t grilling out, this was grabbing cheap drive-through.
I really think the tackiest part was the dotard proudly telling everyone he’d bought that shit himself, as if he did it only to receive some fake gratitude (not that he’d know it was fake).