*Spy *magazine nailed it thirty years ago. Trump is a short-fingered vulgarian.
Why did this event happen at all? With the government shut down and only “essential” services continuing, I can’t think of anything less essential than inviting a college sports team to dinner.
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.)
You’ve managed to find the one thing worse than this! 
I like well-done steaks with ketchup for breakfast. When all of the items are available and I’m feeling like eating heartily, I’d do a triple-sauce swap and have steak with ketchup, chicken fried chicken with A1 sauce, and fried potatoes with Frank’s hot sauce.
He said 300 on a video salivating in front of them, then tweeted 1,000, so it was probably 75, but if you wait just another day or two it will be 20,000
Hell no, that’s below the lukewarm hamburguers.
No, it was hamberders, please keep up.
This might make a nice change, if the NCAA says it’s ok-
“Alinea owner Nick Kokonas invites Clemson Tigers to Chicago dinner, trumping White House fast-food meal”
“Everything has to be folded…”
Don’t forget the cost of the cofveve that comes with those hamburgers.
Friggin’ auto-correct.
One weird thing about this that I haven’t seen talked about much is that these championship team visits usually take place months after the big win. For example, last year’s NCAA champs (Alabama) had their White House visit in April. Why was there a big rush to get Clemson in there less than two weeks after their win, especially if White House staff is furloughed?
It was a cute stunt. With a more popular president, the press would be making goo-goo eyes. But of course a stunt can usually not paper the simple dislike most Americans feel for this President.
Or maybe it was all he could afford.
Yeah, I’ve defended Trump here before, and I am far from a snob or a food critic. I’ll grab a Big Mac sometimes when I am out somewhere and cheat on my diet a little bit.
But, if I get invited to the White House, I’m going to be excited about what kind of food I get. I don’t expect blini and caviar or foie gras, but if I saw a table full of Big Macs, I think I would feel, not slighted or insulted, but somewhat underwhelmed.
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.
I know these guys are college kids, but that is the shit they eat on campus, not what you would expect at the White House. Trump gets no props from me on this.
I agree with that, and I think Paul in Qatar is wrong to suggest that the media’s dislike for Trump is why they criticized this event. I think they would have criticized it no matter which president did it.
But I don’t think other presidents would have done this. They could have simply waited until after the shutdown to host the winning team, or they could have catered the event or done anything other than just serve fast food in the White House.
I don’t think it was done out of any sort of animus. Remember, Trump is a guy who is over 70 years old, and at that age, even the people I have known, start to get a little kooky in their social thinking.
It is easy for me to imagine any 70 year old I know to think that a bunch of young kids would LOVE to munch down on burgers and fries, without realizing the next step that while that may be what those kids normally like to do, this is a special event where they would like something at least different if not better.
I mean, sure, your wife might like to go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast on the weekends, but that doesn’t mean you take her there for her birthday or your anniversary.
This is something President Comancho would’ve done. Except it would have been Carl’s Jr. and Brawndo on the menu.
Yeah, but Carl’s Jr is like a 3 Michelin star restaurant on 2505.