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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Clemson Tigers to be Treated Like Kings

Clemson Tigers to be Treated Like Kings

by John Cole|  January 14, 20196:50 pm| 282 Comments

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Burger Kings, that is:

The Clemson Tigers, fresh from their Jan. 7 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff national championship game, arrived Monday for a White House visit with President Trump. The team was served a variety of fast-food items, for which the White House said Trump paid out of his own pocket.

“I think we are going to serve McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King with some pizza. I really mean it,” Trump had said earlier in the day. “It will be interesting. I would think that’s their favorite food. So we’ll see what happens.”

Like I said elsewhere, this is the tackiest most white trash shit I have ever seen in my entire life and I live in West Virginia and just read a story about a lady being kicked out of the Walmart parking lot for riding a scooter while drinking wine out of a Pringles can.

nigga they got candles with a fast food dinner.

omg I take back all my slander to every one of my broke ass ex's. https://t.co/40dfpqPlLm

— Lady T (@VicTORIousGable) January 14, 2019

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  1. 1.

    Burnspbesq

    January 14, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    Even Clemson deserves better.

  2. 2.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    January 14, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    I hope those young men walk in, politely decline every item offered them, refuse to shake hands, and leave early.

  3. 3.

    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    Pathetic, just pathetic.

  4. 4.

    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 6:55 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    I doubt they will, but I would bet they are disappointed in the offerings.

  5. 5.

    Burnspbesq

    January 14, 2019 at 6:56 pm

    Seriously, D1 athletes are strongly encouraged to eat healthy, and have access to nutritionists and instruction in healthy cooking.

  6. 6.

    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 6:56 pm

    Jesus, fast crap food on the nation’s silver service!

  7. 7.

    lgerard

    January 14, 2019 at 6:56 pm

    jeez

    Why didn’t he send Sarah Sanders Huckabee into the kitchen to fry up some squirrel?

  8. 8.

    trollhattan

    January 14, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    It’s not even his money! Suppose he got his two scoops in full view of them.

  9. 9.

    geg6

    January 14, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    College students are notorious for bad eating habits, but D1 football players generally eat better than this in the campus dining halls. What a joke.

  10. 10.

    cckids

    January 14, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    Jesus, that stuff is ok when fresh & hot; we’ve all been there. Ordered/made Christ only knows how far in advance, sitting around getting cold? Urgh, just disgusting. What an embarrassment, again, this creep is.

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    January 14, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    “I would think that’s their favorite food.”

    Pretty stilted way to dish out (heh) an insult if you ask me.

  12. 12.

    TS (the original)

    January 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    When you think he can’t go any lower …

    And the attacks on Michelle Obama for encouraging children to eat good food …

  13. 13.

    Misterforkbeard

    January 14, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    Even better: Necessarily this stuff will have been sitting and cooling for awhile, even if they make it on site.

    So who’s up for COLD wendy’s and quarter pounders? Christ, what a clusterfuck.

  14. 14.

    plato

    January 14, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    The uncouth dumbshit is overseeing the dinner table settings?

    Trump paid out of his own pocket.

    LIE.

  15. 15.

    JoyceH

    January 14, 2019 at 7:02 pm

    Geez, the WH kitchen staff must feel so humiliated working for this classless clown.

  16. 16.

    Anthony Cooper

    January 14, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    I suppose that’s one of many reasons champions have been skipping the White House.

  17. 17.

    delk

    January 14, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    Those bottom two Wendy’s on the left look like McCartney and Lennon .

  18. 18.

    Misterforkbeard

    January 14, 2019 at 7:03 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Pretty stilted way to dish out (heh) an insult if you ask me.

    I see what you did there.

    But yeah, this sounds a lot like an insult. If an accidental and carefully couched one.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 7:05 pm

    It’s the furlough. OMG, LOL, but poor Tigers.

    According to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (via The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey), Trump was “personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods,” because the government shutdown meant that some of the White House staff that might have handled the catering of this type of event are on furlough.

  20. 20.

    hueyplong

    January 14, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    The Warriors are laughing their asses off right now.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    January 14, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    @Misterforkbeard:

    an insult. If an accidental and carefully couched one

    If this was an accident, I’m Ivanka Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if they serve watermelon for dessert.

  22. 22.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    …for which the White House said Trump paid out of his own pocket.

    So what we’re seeing here is that Trump the “Billionaire” can only afford fast food.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    More from the WaPost story in John’s link:

    “The president wanted to host a fun event to celebrate the College Football National Champion Clemson Tigers,” deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement to CNN, adding that Trump’s gesture came about because “the Democrats refuse to negotiate on border security.”

    Describing the fare as “great American food,” per a pool report, Trump said, “If it’s American, I like it. It’s all American stuff.”

  24. 24.

    MJS

    January 14, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    Not sure why these players went in the first place. It would be interesting to know if there were any threats made, overt or implied, to those considering a boycott.

  25. 25.

    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 7:11 pm

    From my favorite UGA Football Blog

    Yeah I bet a lot of folks are. We reported yesterday UGA lost its nutritionist. Now the coaches are tweeting at Collier Perno, the coordinator of sports nutrition at Florida, to come back home to Georgia. https://twitter.com/iWilburr/status/1084276549015293953 …

    104
    9:35 PM – Jan 12, 2019

  26. 26.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:11 pm

    OT: CNN…

    House GOP leader: ‘Action will be taken’ after King’s white supremacy comment

    Well, yes, I suppose sternly furrowing a brow does qualify as an action.

  27. 27.

    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 7:11 pm

    @MJS: Dabo is a bible thumper and Clemson is in the heart of Trumpville.

  28. 28.

    oatler.

    January 14, 2019 at 7:12 pm

    Cold french fries.
    “By their acts shall ye know them”

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    January 14, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    The White House has professional chefs on staff, and Trump orders in commercial fast food? I have to say, that sounds like an intentional gesture of contempt toward his guests.

  30. 30.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    @lgerard:
    That earned a hardy LOL.

  31. 31.

    MJS

    January 14, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    @raven: Yes, which makes me think there were at least implied threats of retaliation involved.

  32. 32.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    @Amir Khalid: You’re overthinking it: he orders food he knows the guests won’t eat, and that means more for him!

  33. 33.

    lollipopguild

    January 14, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    @MJS: Coming from a very conservative state(South Carolina) I doubt that there was any serious thought given to not going to the White House. Some on the right will play this as trump “owning the libs” by serving “all american’ fast food. Maybe we can convince them that the best way to “own the libs” is to drink bleach.

  34. 34.

    feebog

    January 14, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    So Alabama lost the game but won the war?

  35. 35.

    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    I’m sure I’ve seen this dinner party in a movie, but can’t remember which. Not Rocky Horror, not (quite) Texas Chainsaw Massacre….

  36. 36.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    Maybe we can convince them that the best way to “own the libs” is to drink bleach.

    Look, not too long ago we had to do PSAs to convince kids not to eat laundry detergent, so how hard could it be?

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    I’m not sure he has the ability to plan an intentional gesture of contempt. An off the cuff one sure, but intentional? No, I think he believes this is exactly what he says it is. Which is all the worse, this really is who he is. He has no pretense, he’s really this awful.

  38. 38.

    MJS

    January 14, 2019 at 7:20 pm

    @lollipopguild: I have no doubt the team going to the White House was a given. But I also expect there are a number of players who would prefer not to be in the presence of a racist president* , but for whom a boycott was not in the cards for fear of reprisal.

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    January 14, 2019 at 7:20 pm

    Tacky as a muthaphucka ?

  40. 40.

    cope

    January 14, 2019 at 7:21 pm

    Looks like Emeril’s stunt double lighting the candles. And why is the president* wearing an overcoat? No colliers in the cellar because of the shut down?

  41. 41.

    Chyron HR

    January 14, 2019 at 7:22 pm

    Has anyone ever tried explaining to him that you’re supposed to eat fast food when it’s fresh still hot?

  42. 42.

    delk

    January 14, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    Clemson has a culinary coach.

  43. 43.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    Jesus Christ. This is just another example of him being a cheapskate, if he’s even paying for this out of his own pocket. This is only cost maybe a few hundred dollars if that. This wouldn’t have happened if Obama were still president.

    According to this MSNBC tweet, this is why he’s serving fast food:

    White House says President Trump “is personally paying for” event with National Champions Clemson tonight “to be catered with some of everyone’s favorite fast foods,” because “much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed” due to the ongoing government shutdown.

  44. 44.

    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    In a way, the team lucked out. He might have served them a steak dinner, prepared the way he likes it.

    ETA: Actually that was never on the cards, if he was paying for it – unless he still has a warehouse of unsold Trump Steaks (TM).

  45. 45.

    West of the Rockies

    January 14, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    @lollipopguild:

    Maybe for shits and giggles, we should all start talking about “owning the wingers,” you know, throwing the stupid phrase back at them and effectively neutering it?

  46. 46.

    PaulWartenberg

    January 14, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    I hope the next President re-invites the Clemson team back to a proper White House dinner.

    This is the tackiest fucking thing I have ever seen, and I’ve done enough high school reunions and two-bit sales meetings with questionable catering to say so.

  47. 47.

    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 7:25 pm

    @Burnspbesq:
    But Alabama wouldn’t.

    I hope the White House chefs made something wonderful for the staff to eat while this shit gets doled out.

  48. 48.

    Duane

    January 14, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    Invited to the White House as honored guests and this idiot president serves cold fast food. Again, Trumpov and his clowns can’t handle the simplest of tasks. The incompetence is unbelievable. Time after time, complete fail.

  49. 49.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:
    Unfortunately much of that staff has been furloughed because of the shutdown. Trump basically fucked himself over and this humiliation is completely on him. So another Monday night.

  50. 50.

    rikyrah

    January 14, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    The Trace (@teamtrace) Tweeted:
    Armed “1st Amendment auditors” have been livestreaming their visits to police precincts and govt. buildings and calling out any perceived mistreatment, frightening public employees. Critics fear they could incite violence.

    https://t.co/CaHUAo5T2z https://twitter.com/teamtrace/status/1084933254392762374?s=17

  51. 51.

    Roger Moore

    January 14, 2019 at 7:29 pm

    @Ken:

    I’m sure I’ve seen this dinner party in a movie, but can’t remember which. Not Rocky Horror, not (quite) Texas Chainsaw Massacre….

    The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover?

  52. 52.

    Keith P

    January 14, 2019 at 7:30 pm

    It’s official – Trump is the villain from “Statesman”

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 7:30 pm

    Paul Krugman is shrill. Illustrated with a photo of Trump and Sean Hannity at a rally for white people in November. I think he might have outsourced the writing of this column to Kay.

    Donald Trump and His Team of Morons
    Nobody left besides those with no reputation to lose.

    … It’s hard, however, to think of a calamity as gratuitous, an error as unforced, as the current federal shutdown.

    Nor can I think of another disaster as thoroughly personal, as completely owned by one man.

    Still, no man is an island, although Trump comes closer than most. You can’t fully make sense of his policy pratfalls without acknowledging the extraordinary quality of the people with whom he has surrounded himself. And by “extraordinary,” of course, I mean extraordinarily low quality. Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons.

    … What’s striking, instead, is the inability of [Trump’s associates] to stay on script; they can’t even get their right-wing mendacity right.

    He discusses Kevin Hassett, Chair of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors, who has said on TV that it’s great federal employees get to take a rest without using vacation time. He discusses Sean Hannity, who said earlier this month that taxing the rich more heavily would mean the wealthy are not buying as many expensive boats and taking luxury vacays.

    WRT Hannity:

    Then consider what Sean Hannity had to say about taxing the rich. What’s that? You say that Hannity isn’t a member of the Trump administration? But surely he is in every sense that matters. In fact, Fox News isn’t just state TV, its hosts clearly have better access to the president, more input into his decisions, than any of the so-called experts at places like the State Department or the Department of Defense.

    … So what’s wrong with Trump’s people? Why can’t they serve up even some fake populism?

    There are, I think, two answers, one generic to modern conservatism, one specific to Trump.

    On the generic point: To be a modern conservative is to spend your life inside what amounts to a cult, barely exposed to outside ideas or even ways of speaking. Inside that cult, contempt for ordinary working Americans is widespread — remember Eric Cantor, the then-House majority leader, celebrating Labor Day by praising business owners. So is worship of wealth. And it can be hard for cult members to remember that you don’t talk that way to outsiders.

    Then there’s the Trump effect. Normally working for the president of the United States is a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé. Trump’s presidency, however, is so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted …

    Yeah, pretty much.

  54. 54.

    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    @delk: Every big time program does.

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    there was some event at Maralago early in the regime, IIRC some business summit or some such, the buffet was cold cuts and white bread rolls and bowls of mayonnaise and mustard, almost exactly what my legendarily cheap and lazy aunt used to serve when it was her turn to host family parties. The only thing missing was the generic cans of “Cola” and “Lemon-Lime Soda”

  56. 56.

    Matthew Smith

    January 14, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    No matter who’s furloughed, Trump certainly has the money to have an event catered on his own dime. Announcing that he paid for it out of his own pocket, as though it’s a generous gesture? It would be a generous gesture coming from me, on my budget. From him? Not so much.

  57. 57.

    plato

    January 14, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    The idiot is actually proud of his burgers.

  58. 58.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    I’ll just leave this here.
    KS State Rep. Steve Alford, a 75-year-old Republican from Ulysses, Kansas,  on legalizing marijuana: “What you really need to do is go back in the ’30s, when they outlawed all types of drugs in Kansas (and) across the United States. What was the reason why they did that? One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, was that the African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics, and that.”
    https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/01/gop-lawmaker-blacks-cant-handle-marijuana-genetics/#A01AFmOuo3zgQdM5.01

  59. 59.

    hells littlest angel

    January 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    “Paid for” out of his own pocket.

    “It tasted like shit! I’ll give you ten cents on the dollar, or you can sue me.”

  60. 60.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    @Elizabelle: I thought I’d read that Chump claimed he was paying for it himself…isn’t he supposedly a fuq’n billionaire? I mean mofo couldnt’ shoot for some actual catered food? Hell Subway caters, so does Chic-Fil-A, and sooo many others restaurants, I’m sure.

    SMH…and as for the Clemson…ugh…

    @hunterw
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    Some of the Clemson players are singing Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA” as they wait for Trump.

    5:47 PM – 14 Jan 2019 from Washington, DC

    Gawd…

  61. 61.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    @Matthew Smith:

    Trump certainly has the money to have an event catered on his own dime.

    Or does he?

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    Republicans, rightwingers, Fox News jackasses, tried to call any damn thing the Obamas did in the WH “ghetto” and here ya got this mofo serving fuq’n McDonald’s and Wendys to a winning team, and fuq’n nugget sauce and dressing packets in WH silverware and plates…smh

    https://twitter.com/GRYKING/status/1084967824173551617

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    @insanityreport
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    bruh…they didn’t even take the burgers out of the boxes to even PRETEND that it wasn’t just regular fast food.

    i’m crying

  64. 64.

    trollhattan

    January 14, 2019 at 7:34 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    That or “Eating Raoul.”

  65. 65.

    dmsilev

    January 14, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    No Happy Meals?

    That seems appropriate somehow. Also, I guess it’s safe to assume that Trump ate all of the KFC buckets (yes, including the buckets themselves).

  66. 66.

    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    @Quinerly:

    One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, was that the African Americans, they were basically users…

    Oh, you were SO CLOSE to an epiphany there…

  67. 67.

    Misterforkbeard

    January 14, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    @Chyron HR: Yeah. That was my first response. “These are going to be lukewarm at best.”

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    January 14, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    “I think we are going to serve McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King with some pizza. I really mean it,” Trump had said earlier in the day.

    To be fair, Don Jr offered to shoot and serve some actual tigers.

  69. 69.

    Salty Sam

    January 14, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Maybe for shits and giggles, we should all start talking about “owning the wingers,” you know, throwing the stupid phrase back at them and effectively neutering it?

    Hard to pwn the wingnuts any harder than they self-pwn their own sorry asses…

  70. 70.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    @Brachiator: you win the thread. ?

  71. 71.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 7:38 pm

    @lamh36: Some of the Clemson players are singing Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA”

    “some” eh, Hunter?

  72. 72.

    Hoodie

    January 14, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    I hate Clemson with the heat of a thousand suns, but that’s downright insulting. That’s a multimillion dollar program with a dozen or more future NFL starters. They probably spent thousands to travel too see his flabby white ass. That cheapskate couldn’t order decent catering?

  73. 73.

    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 7:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The draft dodger who would “gladly stand up and defend her STILL today”?

  74. 74.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 7:43 pm

    @lamh36:

    Some of the Clemson players are singing Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA” as they wait for Trump.

    Yeah, somehow I don’t think any student boycott was ever going to be in the cards.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    Nate Silver needs to stick to stats…

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    If I were a college student I’d think it was pretty sweet to eat McDonald’s in the White House.

    5:48 PM – 14 Jan 2019

    https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1084960394555338754

  76. 76.

    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The only thing missing was the generic cans of “Cola” and “Lemon-Lime Soda”

    You can get those at the soda machine Trump had trucked in, 75 cents a can. Usually the contract gives the site 10%, but Trump used his bargaining skillz and is getting a dollar a case.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    Hunter Walker @ hunterw
    Trump says he got Wendys, McDonalds, and Burger King. He described it as “everything I like that you like.”

    I won’t pretend I don’t sometimes– when I’m feeling really lazy, too lazy even to microwave a frozen thing– crave a bag of greasy fast food handed to me through the car window, but as so many others have said, it’s so gross if it gets cold. I quit going to the Wendy’s nearest my house cause the french fries were always cold

    the little plastic things of dipping sauce– did he get nuggets?— being served in silver dishes and trays.

  78. 78.

    Brachiator

    January 14, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I’ll just leave this here.
    KS State Rep. Steve Alford, a 75-year-old Republican from Ulysses, Kansas, on legalizing marijuana

    Pretty despicable; but is the date correct? Is this a year old story?

  79. 79.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Ya’ll they are being served COLD hamburgers and shit…cause come on…aint’ no way shit from McDonald’s stay warm longer than minutes

    smh…

  80. 80.

    Honus

    January 14, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    @Burnspbesq: you non-ACC types can’t appreciate how much this means coming from a Dookie. Thanks, Burns.
    Signed Honus UVA 77

  81. 81.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: from the twitter thread, accompanying the photo of fast food sauce packets sitting in silver dishes:

    Behind the Candelabra Part II – The Trump Years

    Tomorrow, the Alabama Crimson Tide players have to eat two meals at the White House.

    Cold fast food arranged on silver trays is the distillation of DJT’s presidency to the American people.

    He’s rationing the sauces

  82. 82.

    Plato

    January 14, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    Steve King must be so confused. He's been an open white supremacist forever, that his party is suddenly pretending to care has to be disorienting.

    — Katie (@ktbobaytee) January 15, 2019

  83. 83.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 7:55 pm

    @LissandraVilla
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    NEWS: McCarthy says steering committee unanimously decided not to seat Steve King on any committee following his latest remarks.

    6:43 PM – 14 Jan 2019

    https://twitter.com/LissandraVilla/status/1084974380927598593

  84. 84.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    Rep Steve King has been removed from all committees. MSNBC reporting.

  85. 85.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    @lamh36:
    Don’t worry, Chef Mike will warm that shit right up in a jiffy.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    January 14, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    @Ken:

    Harold and Kumar Go to the White House.

    Well, maybe not Kumar.

  87. 87.

    Sebastian

    January 14, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    He is wearing his stupid coat indoors. He must be so fucking fat that not even his shitty baggy suit can hide it anymore.

  88. 88.

    Baud

    January 14, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    @lamh36:
    @Quinerly:

    Now they’ll demand that Dems meet them halfway and fund the Wall.

    Still, good thing.

  89. 89.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 14, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    I have eaten better food at departmental seminars as a grad student. What a cheap skate.

  90. 90.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    @Quinerly:
    It remains to be seen how long this will last or if he’ll be censured further. I’m sure King is pissed and confused. He said all of that white supremacist crap before and nobody gave a shit for years.

  91. 91.

    The Thin Black Duke

    January 14, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    @Quinerly: I think more than a few Republicans are beginning to see the handwriting on the wall.

  92. 92.

    Honus

    January 14, 2019 at 7:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: it’s not a gesture of contempt. He honestly believes that Wendy’s, Macdonalds and Burger King is the favorite food of your black men. It’s somehow oddly empathetic.

  93. 93.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    I don’t know how much they would help, the french fries are just a lost cause, but… there are no chafing dishes in the White House?

  94. 94.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    @Sebastian:
    I don’t think that’s his coat. He’s just that big and obese.

  95. 95.

    Punchy

    January 14, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    Im stunned its not 40% Popeyes, 40% Churchs, and 20% watermelon with Donny Douchebag in charge of this.

  96. 96.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    @Brachiator: great catch. I’m usually very careful about dates but missed the 2018 date. A KS friend sent it to me this AM. I Googled Alford. Looks like he’s still in office but resigned from all committees on 1/9/2018 after these remarks.

  97. 97.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    Me and sis lucked out this trip…our TSA experience was simple and easy going and coming from LA. Smoother than when I traveled before the shutdown.

    @doug_hanks
    At Miami International Airport, one of two TSA scanners is closed for this Concourse D checkpoint. The line is…significant.

    362
    5:01 PM – Jan 14, 2019
    https://twitter.com/doug_hanks/status/1084948560918077440

  98. 98.

    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    @lamh36:

    Truth!

  99. 99.

    JR

    January 14, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: I think once he’s stripped of his committee assignments they are gone for good

    This is more than I expected.

  100. 100.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: “confused”
    That made me smile, Goku. Thanks.

  101. 101.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    @lamh36:
    There was some speculation earlier that this was because air travel in general was way down and that’s not a good sign for the economy.

  102. 102.

    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Love that movie!

  103. 103.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 14, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    He can’t even play the ceremonial part of the presidency well. Pathetic.

  104. 104.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    @JR: Chris Matthews just said, “that’s it; he’s powerless.”

  105. 105.

    Honus

    January 14, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    @delk: just imagine if the White House had been aware of this and reached out to, I don’t know, let this woman work with the shite house chef?

    Nah, it was easier just to order some fast food for the black kids coming to the white house.

  106. 106.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: he can’t even take a Christmas call from a child without ruining Santa Claus.

  107. 107.

    tybee

    January 14, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    @trollhattan: hah!

  108. 108.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @justinjm1
    4m4 minutes ago
    More
    Mueller and SDNY investigating inauguration-related event with foreign officials, Nunes, Flynn, @ErinBanco reports

    https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1084979467964043265

  109. 109.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 14, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @Quinerly: Yes he can’t behave like a functional adult. At all. He has zero impulse control and is constantly throwing tantrums.

  110. 110.

    Roger Moore

    January 14, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Harold and Kumar Go to the White House.

    Well, maybe not Kumar.

    Kumar worked for the Obama White House. Or at least Kal Penn did.

  111. 111.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:10 pm

    @robertcyoung
    Them dudes really went all the way to the WH to get some Wendys and McDonalds.

  112. 112.

    Immanentize

    January 14, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: This

    Trump’s “let see what happens” =
    NigCLANG!

  113. 113.

    Gelfling 545

    January 14, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @debbie: Yeah. Not even a Trump steak.

  114. 114.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    @Quinerly:
    No problem. But seriously, nothing happened to King before when he said racist stuff like this. Apparently, McCarthy feels King could be a drag on the party in 2020. Elections have consequences I guess

    @JR: guess

    I thought nothing would happen again either.

  115. 115.

    Immanentize

    January 14, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    @lamh36:
    Please please type “Nunes” again to make my heart go pitter-pat!

  116. 116.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    Tommy Vietor @ TVietor08
    I bet we end up learning that the Trump reelect paid for this, and maybe a pretend billionaire could spring for some decent food since he also owns a hotel with a restaurant in it?

    I’d bet that would be a campaign violation– not that trump would care but people say Emmett Flood is a real lawyer. I’m sure there’s some kind of White House foundation that Kellyanne badgered into picking up the check.

    But the big question: Did he send Chris Christie around to all those drive throughs?

  117. 117.

    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    I saw this on Twitter, raced over here to post a YALL ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT and see we’re already 114 comments deep. Way to be ON POINT, Balloon Juice!

    Also, truly, let this be the last gasp of Boomer rule in America: “Here you go, student-athletes! Have yourself some of that fine fast food I know you young kids crave!! Training regimen, schmaining regimen! EAT. UP.”

    You almost expect to see Pennywise peeking out from behind one of those curtains…yeesh…

  118. 118.

    Mike in Pasadena

    January 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    If he wanted to impress these young men, he would have let the staff serve perfectly-cooked steaks, baked potatoes with all the fixin’s, and a salad or green vegetable. THAT’S what you serve hungry athletes.

  119. 119.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    @Roger Moore: He does have some awful people of Indian origin working for him though. Seema Verma, Ajit Pai etc.

  120. 120.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:14 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: we may be crossed up in our communications here on this thread. I was praising you for using the word “confused” to describe King. It made me smile. Only smile of the day. Thanks.

  121. 121.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 14, 2019 at 8:15 pm

    If I was a Clemson player senior or close, I declare for the draft and say screw you. Speaking of Dabo. I am glad more players are skipping bowl games to concentrate on the NFL. That butthurts the Dabos and I include the 4 game and transfer rule, that Alabama QB Jalen Hurts is doing. More freedom for the players.

  122. 122.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
    Christ, imagine if they had plated giant watermelons!

  123. 123.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:17 pm

    @Quinerly:
    I understood what you meant and you’re welcome : )

    I’m just still sort of amazed that King finally faced consequences for once.

  124. 124.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    @Mike in Pasadena:
    That and maybe pasta dinners.

  125. 125.

    Immanentize

    January 14, 2019 at 8:18 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    more than a few Republicans are beginning to see the handwriting on the wall.

    And that handwriting says what I actually saw scrawled in a tube station in London:
    “White Man Can’t Fuck.”

  126. 126.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: I still think Trump’s first choice for this little gathering was buckets of KFC. Kellyann nipped that in the bud when she heard Steven Miller getting the order together. ?

  127. 127.

    Roger Moore

    January 14, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    He can’t even play the ceremonial part of the presidency well.

    The point of a lot of the ceremonial parts of the job is that the president is congratulating other people for the great stuff they’ve done. When done well, the president can pick up a bit of reflected glory, but that concept is way too subtle for Trump to grasp. He can’t stand to see someone else getting more attention than him, so he messes it up as a way of winning back that attention. It doesn’t seem to matter to him that the attention he’s getting is negative; he just wants to be the center of attention, good or bad.

  128. 128.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    @lamh36:

    Chic-Fil-A

    And they are about as right wing as fast food gets. The owners are deep end RWMJs.
    The guys at work go there every once in a while. I walk over to the taqueria a block away. Foods better and I’m not supporting a RWMJ family.

  129. 129.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: and he’s still confused. ?

  130. 130.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 14, 2019 at 8:20 pm

    Just when you think Donald can’t be more embarrassing, this shit comes along.

  131. 131.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 14, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    @lamh36: T is their ( the ones who voted for T) revenge against the rest of America for Obama.

  132. 132.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:21 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Josh Barro @ jbarro
    You can tell the president speaks Republican as a second language because he didn’t get Chick-fil-A.

  133. 133.

    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    @Quinerly: Colorado is embarrassed to share a border with Kansas. What a bunch of book banging nazis.

  134. 134.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 8:22 pm

    From NY TImes article on Steve King losing his committee assignments: SMH:

    Mr. [Mitch] McConnell said Monday that Mr. King’s remarks were “unwelcome and unworthy of his elected position.”

    “If he doesn’t understand why ‘white supremacy’ is offensive, he should find another line of work,” Mr. McConnell said.

    earlier in story:

    House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as the party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism and contain damage from comments Mr. King made to The New York Times questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive.

    The punishment came on a day when Mr. King’s own party leadership moved against him, with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, suggesting Mr. King find “another line of work” and Senator Mitt Romney saying he should quit. In an attempt to be proactive, the House Republicans stripped him of his committee seats in the face of multiple Democratic resolutions to censure Mr. King that are being introduced this week.

    Mr. McCarthy called a special meeting of the Republican Steering Committee to consider removing Mr. King from Judiciary — which has jurisdiction over immigration, voting rights and impeachment — and Agriculture, which is a prized committee for Iowans. Mr. King also lost his seat on the Small Business Committee. The steering committee vote was unanimous.

    GOP trying so hard to get in front of this story, although they stuck with him when he was a useful tool.

    Also, Iowa’s two Republican senators, Charles E. Grassley and Joni Ernst, along with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who had appointed Mr. King a co-chairman of his 2016 presidential campaign, all rebuked Mr. King in recent days.

    All had eagerly embraced him in the past because of his standing with the state’s most conservative voters — keys to winning statewide elections in Iowa, which holds the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest.

    Mr. Grassley had endorsed Mr. King in November for re-election, even after the chairman of the House Republican election committee denounced Mr. King as a white supremacist.

    “Iowa needs Steve King in Congress,” Mr. Grassley said in that endorsement. “I also need Steve King in Congress.”

    Ms. Ernst, who faces re-election in 2020, appeared with Mr. King at a rally in his district the Monday before Election Day last year, after he had endorsed a Toronto mayoral candidate with neo-Nazi ties.

    And what did he say?

    But in an interview with The Times published on Thursday, Mr. King said: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”

    In the interview with The Times, Mr. King also reflected on the record number of minorities and women in the new Democratic-controlled House. “You could look over there and think the Democratic Party is no country for white men,” he said.

  135. 135.

    chris

    January 14, 2019 at 8:23 pm

    @rikyrah: Holy crap! Not the weirdest thing today but still…

  136. 136.

    Immanentize

    January 14, 2019 at 8:23 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:
    Don’t forget ol’ ex-US Ambassador “Nikki” “Haley”

  137. 137.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    @different-church-lady:
    At one time he could have borrowed it from his owner, Vlad.
    Now he has to live off his salary and I understand he donated that, to probably one of his shell companies.

  138. 138.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Manu Raju @ mkraju
    Mitt Romney tells me there’s NO place in the GOP or Congress for Steve King, calling on him to resign. “I think he ought to step aside and I think Congress ought to make it very clear he has no place there.”

    Nice warm-up swing, Willard. Now do trump.

  139. 139.

    Another Scott

    January 14, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    @Jeffro: Obama is a Boomer.

    Just sayin’

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Hi OO!”)

  140. 140.

    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 8:25 pm

    @Ruckus: I have never eaten at Christ-Full-A. I may try it the next time they are open on a Sunday.

  141. 141.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    If you want some laughs, go to Jason O Gilbert’s Twitter. He’s all over the Clemson thing, but my favorite recent tweet of his is “Like her or not, Rashida Tlaib shouldn’t have referred to the President using the Secret Service code name for Mike Pence.” On the smarty pants phone, so please excuse the formatting.

  142. 142.

    Brachiator

    January 14, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    @Mike in Pasadena:

    If he wanted to impress these young men, he would have let the staff serve perfectly-cooked steaks, baked potatoes with all the fixin’s, and a salad or green vegetable. THAT’S what you serve hungry athletes.

    Throw in some prime rib and you’ve got the Lawry’s Beef Bowl.

    From a past news story.

    Every year since 1956, the prime rib fanatics at Lawry’s have been throwing their annual pre-Rose Bowl dinners (lovingly titled The Beef Bowl) at their restaurant on La Cienega. The red carpeted event actually takes place over two afternoons (one for each team), and acts as a sort of welcoming committee to incoming football players, athletic directors, and coaching staff, many of whom may have never been to Los Angeles before.

    This year, Eater tagged along as the Georgia Bulldogs took to Lawry’s to carve up and enjoy some 500 pounds of prime rib.

  143. 143.

    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 8:27 pm

    @Elizabelle: GOP better run harder and faster away from Steve King’s crap…we have them all on video, multiple times, loving them some Steve King, stalwart defender of “American values”.

    a LITTLE LOUDER if you please, GOP-officials-now-trying-to-distance-themselves-from-King-craziness…we can’t hear you…

  144. 144.

    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    @Immanentize: cue the scene in Ghostbusters where Patty and Abby are describing Erin’s ex-whatever.

  145. 145.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    Dan Pfeiffer @ danpfeiffer
    In so many ways, Trump is a racist, angry version of Michael Scott

  146. 146.

    Geoduck

    January 14, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    @Ken: The first Kingsman movie had a scene in which Samuel Jackson’s supervillain character had McDonalds food served on fine china. It was intended as a joke.

  147. 147.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    @TylerRickyTynes
    39m39 minutes ago
    More
    Them boys put on they best suits and got on a plane to eat Big Macs by candlelight

  148. 148.

    Mandalay

    January 14, 2019 at 8:28 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    Apparently, McCarthy feels King could be a drag on the party in 2020.

    Not just McCarthy. The other Mc delivered this burn:

    “If he doesn’t understand why ‘white supremacy’ is offensive, he should find another line of work,” Mr. McConnell said.

    Steve King has become the emperor with no clothes. He’s completely fucked now. I suspect if he goes rogue and opens his pie hole again he’s gone.

    Fuck him.

  149. 149.

    Another Scott

    January 14, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    @Elizabelle: Of course, it’s easy for McConnell to say that since Rep. Steve King is in “the other body”.

    Let’s see him do that to a Senator.

    Grr…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  150. 150.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 14, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    Ewww. I was thinking, even in a furlough, there has to be some minions. Cant they at least send out for deli food? and if its Kroger deli food, they serve hot chicken and sandwiches. Certainly someone could have been sent out with a shopping list of good food. But then this is the crowd that couldn’t find the light switches for the first week. Better not trust them around chafing dishes, ovens and hot plates. I mean the White House has already had one fire….

  151. 151.

    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    @Another Scott: Yeah but he’s already out of office…I’m ready to hand this whole thing over to the Millennials. Most definitely need to skip (my) Gen Xers and go straight to the Millenials.

    No Boomers, no Gen Xers, just turn it over to the (30-year-old) kids.

  152. 152.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @Quinerly:
    I think the KFC would have been a little too on the nose. I don’t know the racial composition of Clemson’s football team but that could have been a disaster. Well, more than it already is. I’m sure Sanders would have tried to spin it as typical “southern” fare.

    @Quinerly:
    I can’t wait to read his reaction to being removed from the House Agriculture committee, which is apparently a big deal for Iowan politicians.

  153. 153.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    @lamh36: It breaks my heart. It really does.

  154. 154.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: What’s going to be interesting is Trump’s answer when the press asks him about King’s removal from the committees.

  155. 155.

    TS (the original)

    January 14, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    @lamh36:

    Chump claimed he was paying for it himself

    Much more likely he asked for a “campaign donation” from the outlets. Told them all about the great publicity having their food in the White House.

  156. 156.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 14, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    @Another Scott:

    It’s not hard to see his caucus actually turning on him if he tried it.

    @Mandalay:

    He is fucked. I don’t what suddenly changed though. 2020 maybe?

  157. 157.

    Roger Moore

    January 14, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    @Geoduck:
    I served a fast food burger on fine china once when I was working as a waiter. I was working the head table at a wedding reception that was apparently planned by the bride’s mother without bothering to consult with her daughter and son-in-law-to-be. The happy couple were not at all happy with the food, and one of them commented that they’d be happier with a Double-Double. The best man, proving his right to the title, hopped in his car, drove to the nearest In-N-Out, and bought them burgers and fries. He gave them to me, and I served them on our finest dishes. It was one of my happiest moments at that job; the bride and groom were obviously thrilled- and completely surprised- to get something they preferred to the planned menu.

  158. 158.

    JMG

    January 14, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    Clemson’s football media guide has a picture of the team’s “executive dietary coach” (chef) and her staff. Their job one is to keep the players away from the stuff Trump’s serving them. I mean, undoubtedly the staff at Trump’s hotel, five blocks away, could’ve sent over a team to whip up a passel of steaks or pasta or whatever. This is just weird.

  159. 159.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Yes he can’t behave like a functional adult.

    Well, that’s because he isn’t a functional adult. Not in any normal sense of the word. People get mad that I say he acts like a toddler, but remember I said he acts like a spoiled rotten toddler, not your average every day toddler. And I still say he’s acting somewhat like a person with Alzheimers, which is like infancy in reverse.

  160. 160.

    The Midnight Lurker

    January 14, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Five. Five FULL-TIME chefs work at the White House.

    Did they ALL get furloughed?

  161. 161.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 8:42 pm

    WaPost story on King losing his committee assignments:

    “We will not be seating Steve King on any committees in the 116th Congress,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said after a GOP Steering Committee meeting Monday night. The decision of the panel was unanimous, but it must be ratified by all House Republicans.

    I wonder if that is going to be an issue.

  162. 162.

    Another Scott

    January 14, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    @Jeffro: Generation-ism is stupid.

    Lots of us point to the start of the long decline that we’re (in many ways) living through as being when Reagan took office. Reagan wasn’t a Boomer.

    Stephen Miller isn’t a Boomer.

    Kellyanne Conway isn’t a Boomer.

    Brett Kavanaugh isn’t a Boomer.

    Ragging on Boomer’s is stupid.

    There is value in having sensible people with experience in national government. Turning everything over to 30-somethings would be stupid, too.

    “You mean there were operating systems [before] Windows??!? And there were national labor strikes in America??!?!”

    My $0.02.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“Who is also a Boomer.”)

  163. 163.

    Kay

    January 14, 2019 at 8:44 pm

    The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations.

    Finally. Devin Nunes. Who was basically waving “hey! over here! I have been captured by foreign agents!” for two years

    I was waiting until it spread to the GOP Congress. It was absolutely inevitable some of them would be implicated, right? There had to be congressional cooperation for this to happen.

  164. 164.

    jackmac

    January 14, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Have the White House pastry chefs learned how to make Twinkies yet? Or does Trump just send the Secret Service to the store for a couple of cases.

  165. 165.

    jl

    January 14, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    OK, the WH fast food feast is weird. Sure it’s not an Onion article?

    ” riding a scooter while drinking wine out of a Pringles can. ”
    Maybe that is an activity Trump could throw to attract the pro teams?

  166. 166.

    Mandalay

    January 14, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Of course, it’s easy for McConnell to say that since Rep. Steve King is in “the other body”.

    True, but he didn’t have to say anything, and I’m sure he worked the whole thing out with McCarthy in advance.

    McConnell has now raised the stakes. If King doesn’t stay in his lane now, McConnell and McCarthy will be expected to go after him even more aggressively, and I can’t imagine anyone in Congress siding with King (the White House being a separate matter). King is screwed now. He has been publicly warned about his behavior, and his ability to say what’s on his mind are over if he wants to keep his job.

  167. 167.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:
    Smart ass.
    Good one.

  168. 168.

    The Midnight Lurker

    January 14, 2019 at 8:46 pm

    @Kay: Oh, noes! Not Agent Uber!

  169. 169.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    Just…the pictures are just sad..

    https://twitter.com/Natural_OneDurr/status/1084980521279672321

  170. 170.

    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    @Another Scott: I remain unconvinced despite the insults. It’s kind of my M.O.

  171. 171.

    Kay

    January 14, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    The problem, as I see it, is fast food doesn’t hold very well. It has to be hot and fresh or it’s disgusting. It really can’t be even 20 minutes old – we have had the swim team turn their noses up at Taco Bell that is an hour old, rightfully, I might add.

    So it will be horrible and insulting, like all Trump events, because they’re not smart or practical people. They don’t know how real things work because none of them ever had normal jobs.

  172. 172.

    chris

    January 14, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    @Kay: I’m still waiting for Mueller to land on Jason Chaffetz. Remember him, the guy who left in a sudden hurry?

  173. 173.

    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    @misslaneym
    You can hear one of the Clemson Tigers players say “I thought it was a joke”. ?
    https://twitter.com/misslaneym/status/1084988794087067650

  174. 174.

    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 8:52 pm

    @jl: there’s been an update on scooter chick with her Pringles can.
    https://thetakeout.com/woman-drinking-wine-out-of-pringles-can-at-walmart-warm-1831735388

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    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    Someone said…ya know Wendy’s and McDonald’s PR team have got to be pissed!!!!

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    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 8:53 pm

    it is kind of funny to read Steve King’s statement about how he was ONLY referencing/defending “western civilization” and not all the other terms he used in the very same sentence.

    Which is funny because now the RWNJs won’t – in theory – even be able to use “western civilization” as a dog whistle for “white supremacy”. What’s next, complaining about “conditions here on planet Earth”? There’s a point at which even your own followers, STEVE, are gonna ask you to just use plain ol’ racial pejoratives ’cause you’re too hard for them to follow…

    “I WUZ JUST TALKIN’ ABOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, WHYZ EVERYONE SO UPSET?” My ass.

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    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 8:54 pm

    @Another Scott: I’m in the middle of the boomers, and based on my sample size, most boomers are selfish, book banging cletuses with a real spite problem. YMMV.

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    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 8:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Once in a great while, only an Egg McMuffin will do.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    @lamh36: Yeah, there’s your Lee Greenwood singer-alonger right there, then he sees a cold filet-o-fish

    @lamh36: that kid looks decidedly non-plussed, is that a Taco Bell thing he picks up and puts down?

    @Kay: I don’t even quality sandwiches last more than twenty minutes or so, bread gets soggy and gross fast

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    Duane

    January 14, 2019 at 8:57 pm

    The Trumpov team is always a target-rich field but this is just too laughable. Smh, Krugman’s shrill, twitter aflame. I can’t keep up. Maybe this way he doesn’t do any damage except to his guest’s stomachs.

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    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 8:57 pm

    Lordt…I didn’t even think about this…

    @rodimusprime
    The worst part is that Trump ordered all the food so you know it’s got spit in it.

    97
    7:12 PM – Jan 14, 2019

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 8:58 pm

    @debbie: they’re not good for me, and at my age they remind me of that pretty damn quick, but yeah McD’s breakfast sandwiches are good. and the hash browns.

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    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    @lamh36: At best, spit.

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    Another Scott

    January 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: Most people, of any generation, don’t run for public office.

    Generalizations about a generation are just as stupid as generalizations about hair color or eye color or detached ear lobes or webbed toes.

    I don’t know why it seems to come up every few months here.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“But don’t get me started on PG County drivers!!!1”)

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    Kay

    January 14, 2019 at 8:59 pm

    @chris:

    I feel like “contagion” to congress is an important marker. But as a practical matter, the truth is Trump couldn’t pull this Russian thing off without help. He can’t even host a dinner – he’s going to give them limp, soggy lukewarm fast food – you simply can’t hold it. Fast food fries are gross unless you eat them in literally 10 minutes. The buns! They’re hard as rocks when they cool.

    I;m sure they’re polite and gracious so no one will say anything. To the idiot who is just showing off again.

    Everything is all about him. He can’t even do the simplest ceremonial duties without INJECTING his horrible personality.

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    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: My Gen Xers (‘Reagan babies’) are worse, imho. VERY high ratio of air quote “libertarians”. They’re just flat-out convinced that “government is the problem”, as if Somalia is some sort of paradise on earth.

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    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 9:02 pm

    @debbie: I’m sneaking up on age 58. Never, ever been to a McDonald’s. Never, ever had any food item from McDonald’s. I have heard good things about the French fries and have been tempted.

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    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @Sebastian:

    Perhaps he is just back from picking up the food.

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    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: but wiat…also didn’t think about this…

    @TheKitchenista
    21m21 minutes ago
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    I’m dying at the thought of how many of the Clemson players already ate McDonald’s on their trip TO the White House.

    https://twitter.com/TheKitchenista/status/1084988793541804034

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    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @Another Scott:
    I agree. I’m only 4 yrs into boomerville and I believe that I’m at least reasonably liberal. OK sometimes I’m unreasonable. OTOH I know people younger than boomers (one just over old enough to drink) and they voted for drumpf and have a copy of Atlas Shrugged in their living room, prominently displayed.

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    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    @Jeffro: Libertarians just exchanged their goatherder manuals for “Atlas Shrugged”. Still deluded assholes.

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    Adrift

    January 14, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    Describing the fare as “great American food,” per a pool report, Trump said, “If it’s American, I like it. It’s all American stuff.”

    I’m still up in the top of the comments, but if it hasn’t been mentioned yet I would like to point out that Burger King is *ahem* a Canadian corporation since their inversion a couple of years back.

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    debbie

    January 14, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I’ve had them very rarely (usually pilfered from a niece’s or nephew’s bag). Not too bad, but there are better fries to be had elsewhere.

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    lamh36

    January 14, 2019 at 9:06 pm

    This is just…

    @leahmcelrath
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    White House staff put the french fries in paper cups with the presidential seal.

    Such a touching gesture.

    I cannot imagine what it is like for the people who take such pride in working at the WH and have worked there for years to have to deal with its current occupant.

    #ALLIN

    https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1084990387306016768

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    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 9:08 pm

    @Adrift: What struck me is that Trump is all about everything American. Two days after the story is out that he has been investigated by the FBI as a possible Russian asset.

    Forgot about Burger King. But yes, it was an inversion. Tax policy. I remember that now. Was very disappointed with them.

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    Barbara

    January 14, 2019 at 9:09 pm

    @Jeffro: As if Trump supporters (or many of us) sit around debating whether Beethoven or Bach is the first true modern composer in between reading Plato and Aristotle in the original Greek. And don’t get me started on all that crowing about the glories of western technology by people out of one side of their mouth while using the other half to viilify scientific inquiry and the Enlightenment.

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    trollhattan

    January 14, 2019 at 9:10 pm

    @Quinerly:
    Spouse’s grandfather, a gen-you-wine California Okie, stashed stale beer in orange juice concentrate cans in the fridge. MIL was not amused but that did not change this proud habit. And as we know, Texas=Baja Oklahoma.

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    chris

    January 14, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    JFC

    I should note that, at one point tonight, President Trump said he bought 300 hamburgers. Later, he claimed he bought 1,000 hamburgers.— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) 15 January 2019

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    MomSense

    January 14, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    He is just so fucking tacky and disgusting.

    He couldn’t hire a caterer to make some decent food?

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    Brachiator

    January 14, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I’m sneaking up on age 58. Never, ever been to a McDonald’s. Never, ever had any food item from McDonald’s. I have heard good things about the French fries and have been tempted.

    The fries were better when the frying oil contained beef tallow.

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    TS (the original)

    January 14, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    @lamh36: Cold French Fries in paper cups. Did trump have to do the washing up?

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    Jinchi

    January 14, 2019 at 9:13 pm

    Considering that McDonald’s is Trump’s favorite food, this may be the most sincere gesture that he’s made in the 2 years he’s been president.

    On the other hand, he apparently likes fast food because he assumes that anyone who knew he was coming to dinner would try to poison him.

    Probably not a bad bet.

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    Barbara

    January 14, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    @Quinerly: Wow. An honest to God fast food virgin. You might be able to make a small fortune as a modern day freak show.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 9:14 pm

    @Ruckus: my soon-to-be 90 year old father is a member of what is sometimes rated the ‘worst’ generation, politically, the Silents. He has never voted for a Republican for president in his life, casting his first vote for Stevenson from Korea in 1952. In 1974, one of my uncles came up to him at a party and said, “I’ll be damned, you were right about Nixon.” (he went right back to voting R, of course). At a business lunch after the ’76 election, one of his partners said “Well, we’ll run Reagan in four years.” My father looked up to laugh at what he was sure was a joke and saw that his partner was dead serious and the third guy at the table agreed. He quit donating to the Salvation Army last year when I told him about their stance on gay rights.

    and this whole “Boomers vote like this” “Gen X votes like that” … it’s a very white/male slanted discussion. I think white men under thirty went pretty heavily for McCain, and then Romney. They and trump all won white women, I’m pretty sure.

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    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @debbie:
    I’ve gotten massive food poisoning at McDs. Twice. While traveling. Only place open in the morning nearby and I had to work. No longer. If McDs was the last place on earth with anything called food, I’ll volunteer to starve. It would be better for me. And yes I figured the first time was a fluke. The second time I learned. Two different McDs in two different states, with almost a year inbetween, that’s not just a local, one time issue.

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    Mary G

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    Hillary Clinton Mix tape is coming to you soon. pic.twitter.com/XFv5zfTs3p— Mr. Weeks ?? (@MrDane1982) January 15, 2019

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    Villago Delenda Est

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @Geoduck: Samuel L was obviously enjoying every minute of scenery chewing he was encouraged to engage in in that film.

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    Frankensteinbeck

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    As for Steve King: This is a perfect example of the fucked up rules about racism Reagan sold to American white.

    You know what the problem is? You know why he got in trouble this time? He used the words ‘white supremacy.’ If he’d only used ‘white nationalism’ he’d have gotten away scot free. Notice how the press bends over backwards to never, ever describe even the hardest core racists with the phrase ‘white supremacy.’ Like the n-word, the words ‘white supremacy’ are part of the code to let whites be as racist as they want and avoid the accusation. There are hardly half a dozen ways you can fuck that up, and King picked one of them.

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    Gravenstone

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    @West of the Rockies: I’m not buying any wingnuts. You can take my share if you like. They’re icky…

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    rikyrah

    January 14, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    Follow the THREAD

    ??????? ?. ??????? (@wdlindsy) Tweeted:
    So this has happened:

    1. Jan. 7: Washington Post breaks Opus Dei-McCloskey story.

    2. Jan. 8: Cardinal Burke mounts an attack on Pope Francis on German t.v., saying his response to the abuse crisis is “confusing.” /1 https://twitter.com/wdlindsy/status/1084951270312562691?s=17

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    Villago Delenda Est

    January 14, 2019 at 9:16 pm

    @chris: He didn’t buy ANY hamburgers. He put them on Sarah Slander’s Visa card.

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    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    @Barbara: To be fair, I have never debated the merits of Bach, Mozart, Plato, or Aristotle. King is simply wrapping his fascism in flowery words.

    Now, if you want to debate the best pedal-steel player, this liberal redneck has some thoughts.
    Different strokes.

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    Jinchi

    January 14, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    @Quinerly: I’m pretty sure McDonalds fries are perfectly calibrated to trigger all the pleasure sensors on a 7 year old’s tongue.

    I’m not sure it will translate to a 58-year old palate.

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    chopper

    January 14, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    alabama’s all well, maybe losing wasn’t so bad after all.

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    Mike J

    January 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @MomSense:

    He couldn’t hire a caterer to make some decent food?

    Trump owns a hotel with a restaurant. I think he could have had decent food sent in.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    January 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @Jeffro: The only problem with Somalia, in their eyes, is all the ni*CLANGS* living there.

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    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @Another Scott: Sort of like this “the South” bullshit.

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    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @rikyrah: I cannot stand the conservative side of the Catholic Church. I hope this breaks very, very badly for them. As in, some should go to jail.

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    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 9:19 pm

    @debbie: I just never have done the fast food thing. (full disclosure… Taco Bell, sometimes, when driving to NC). I have done Hardee’s many years ago. It was started by Wilbur Hardee in a neighboring small town in NC and Wilbur was a friend of my father’s. Wilbur sold Hardee’s early on in the 1960’s and ended up violating a non compete agreement contained in the sale when he started another drive in called “The Little Mint.” My dad had a Little Mint franchise for about 5 years. They never really took off, though, and Wilbur basically lost everything, became an alcoholic, got sober, got religion, and died not long ago. Well, that’s basically what I know about fast food. ?

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    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 9:20 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:

    Libertarians just exchanged their goatherder manuals for “Atlas Shrugged”. Still deluded assholes.

    LOL

    They were “Republicans” until Newt’s bomb-throwing became all the rage in GOP circles, then they were “Conservatives” until the bombs blew back into their own foxholes, then they were “Compassionate Conservatives” until W was AWOL on 9/11, dragged us into Iraq, and blew up the deficit, and then they were all “Libertarians” (2005-2008) and “Tea Partiers” (2009-2016).

    Shown graphically, it would look like that classic ‘Ascent of Man’ diagram in reverse, ending in “Trumpublicans”, orange-tinged single-celled creatures incapable of logic, reason, or even self-interest.

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    Ohio Mom

    January 14, 2019 at 9:22 pm

    Just got back from the Cincinnati Meet up, where we had American pub food — a feast compared to what’s being served in the White House. Better company and conversation too. It was a very nice time.

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    Jay

    January 14, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Burger King was the first fast food franchise to take poutine out of Quebec, all the way across Canada. Late 1990’s.

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    Mike J

    January 14, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:

    Now, if you want to debate the best pedal-steel player, this liberal redneck has some thoughts

    Tom Brumley.

    But I’m a big Buck Owens and the whole Bakersfield sound fan.

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    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    @Barbara: No Chick Filet, no KFC either. I do like Popeye ‘s (but only in Louisiana after 1:00 AM?) and I have had Wendy’s chili. I adore White Castles. ???

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    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    @trollhattan: “Who put PINEAPPLE JUICE in my pineapple juice?!?”

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    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    @Quinerly:

    I live two blocks from a McDonald’s and haven’t eaten there in probably 15 years.

    I used to go there once a year, on my birthday, and get Filet-o-Fish, fries, and a chocolate malt for lunch. Then I realized why I was always sick on the afternoon of my birthday, and the tradition ceased.

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    A Ghost To Most

    January 14, 2019 at 9:25 pm

    @Jeffro: They keep using that word “conservative”. I do not think it means what they think it means.

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    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    @A Ghost To Most:

    Now, if you want to debate the best pedal-steel player, this liberal redneck has some thoughts.

    David Gilmore, natch. [DUCKS]

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    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 9:28 pm

    @debbie: When I take the 7AM Amtrak to visit my family, I get an egg McMuffin at the station. I always eat it before boarding, though – the one time I waited, well, it’s like everyone else has said. Plus the eggs vulcanize, or some similar chemical process, as they cool.

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    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    @zhena gogolia: There is one two blocks away and we’ve never been in it. When we first moved here 20 years ago a neighbor came over and said “Your cocker spaniel Raven is standing in front of the door Mac’s begging for food”!

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    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    @Jeffro: And yet through all that they’ve always been assholes.

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    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    Thought I’d better add this in – this is not aimed at you or any person here.
    We are all guilty of generalizations of people, be it political, racial, spiritual, age, gender, sexual identity, hair color, whatever. It makes it easier to find our way or lose our way. It’s one human trait that should die a much needed death. It turns being human into a bullshit contest, my bullshit is better than your bullshit. More people voted for Hillary Clinton thab did for Donald Trump. He is president because the racist land owners known as some of the founders didn’t want people to win elections who they did not like. Well the racist wealthy got their wish this time. The far better person lost, not because of the electorate but because of the land owners/racist segment of the founders.
    It’s time to talk about fixing our national government. Not tearing it down, the republican way to fix stuff – destroy it, the real way, decide what it is that the majority want, not the wealthy land owners, not the racists.

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    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @A Ghost To Most: Yup. It was a bit of a wake-up moment for my RWNJ dad and brother back in 2016 when I told them I could better articulate actual ‘conservative’ principles than they could, and that set of arguments would be a better fit with/would be much more in support of the present-day Democratic Party than the present-day GOP.

    Needless to say, variations on Hillary-hatred and ‘ALL lives matter’ and ‘soshulism!’ were the response, instead of “really? Wow…I need to think and reflect about that. My party might really be off the rails!”

    (sigh)

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    Honus

    January 14, 2019 at 9:33 pm

    @Brachiator: that’ll go over well with the GOP trying to pretend that Steve King is an uncharacteristic anachronism.

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    chopper

    January 14, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @lamh36:

    “oh no, these are ‘steamed hams’”

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    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @Quinerly:

    As Kay says, they’re great if you eat them immediately.

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    Mnemosyne

    January 14, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    I’ve been out of the loop with a migraine all day, so I’ll just say this:

    My annual salary is probably about what Trump (allegedly) makes in a single day, and EVEN I could easily afford to buy that much fast food out of my own pocket.

    But, of course, I’m not a malignant narcissist who’s more interested in embarrassing his “enemies” than he is in welcoming guests to the White House. Because you know that every single convervative is denouncing the Democrats for “forcing” Trump to be a cheap bastard and spend at best $300.

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    Jeffro

    January 14, 2019 at 9:34 pm

    @different-church-lady: So true. And yet, easily explainable as, “I want to act out and not share and not understand or change or grow, not even in my own self-interest”. Covers a lot of what it means to be an asshole.

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    Jinchi

    January 14, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    Oh my God. I just realized, Trump had to order fast food, because all “non-essential” staff are on furlough.

    As the partial government shutdown took hold over the holidays, President Trump seemed to express wonder at being alone in the White House with little but the cheeriness of heavily armed guards to keep him warm for the better part of a week.

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    lollipopguild

    January 14, 2019 at 9:37 pm

    @different-church-lady: Cindy Cashdollar.

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    Leto

    January 14, 2019 at 9:37 pm

    As an eternal Tigers fan, I just can’t. This is just… like no fucking words. Avalune read this to me, throughout tears of laughter, and I swore this was a fucking Onion piece. It’s just… words fucking fail me.

    Every team that was invited to the White House needs a do over once this fucking traitor leaves office. They didn’t get a real WH visit. They didn’t get the real experience. This is beyond Forrest Gump level of farce.

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    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 9:38 pm

    I really wonder what the Obamas think when they watch what’s going on in the White House now.

    @Jinchi:

    Considering that McDonald’s is Trump’s favorite food, this may be the most sincere gesture that he’s made in the 2 years he’s been president.

    You know, that is possible. Although the Clemson players looked so restrained in the footage we’ve seen.

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    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Do you know about this for migraines?

    The one I take is called Ajovy. It’s a once-monthly at home injection. There is also one called Amovig that is more popular but has a couple side effects, so I picked Ajovy (which has no side effects). Both of these were cleared by the FDA within the last 6 months after years of testing, and they don’t help everyone but they’ve really helped me where nothing else has. I got it prescribed by my neurologist, the manufacturer has a paper card that makes it free through Dec 2019.

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    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    EVEN I could easily afford to buy that much fast food out of my own pocket

    Especially if you just got one of those mailers with the double page of 2 for $4 coupons.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    January 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @Another Scott: “Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”

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    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I grew up in a very rural small town. I think the first McDonald’s came to a larger neighboring town in about ’74. Like I said above, we had Hardee’s in the area because of the founder’s history in the area (Wilbur also had steak houses called “The Three Steers.”) Those kind of hamburgers and fish sandwiches just were never on my radar. By the time I hit my 20’s it kinda became a novelty to say that I had never been to a McD, Burger King, etc… I did fall into the whole White Castles thing after late nights in St. Louis in the mid to late ’80’s.Now, about every two-three months, I’ll get a craving for them.

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    Mnemosyne

    January 14, 2019 at 9:39 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    So what we’re seeing here is that Trump the “Billionaire” can only afford fast food.

    Yup. “Billionaire,” my Aunt Fanny.

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    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    @raven:

    It’s hilarious, but I never even remember that it’s there. I hope Raven didn’t get his tummy upset with a Big Mac!

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 14, 2019 at 9:41 pm

    @Elizabelle: I absolutely agree with Jinchi, this was his usual projection, everyone agrees with me, and he’d probably rather have a QP than a trump hotel 75 dollar steak, well done

    also, I know bupkis about the DC pizza scene, but…

    Hunter Walker @ hunterw
    Here’s another video I shot of the White House fast food spread that includes the Domino’s

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    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 9:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: What, not Little Caesar’s?

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    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Oh, I can assure you that there are roughly a thousand places in DC where you can get better pizza than in Domino’s.

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    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    To be fair, Trump’s first suggestion when asked for menu ideas for the Clemson visit was “fried chicken and watermelon.” When an aide explained that that might be offensive, he replied, “What? Isn’t that what, you know, those kind of boys like to eat?” “Ok, fine!!” said an exasperated Trump, “How about some fucking Whoppers, then? This isn’t going to cost a lot, right?”

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    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 9:45 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Wait, I’m worried about memory issues, are you from here? Did I know that? damn

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    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 9:46 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Oh, I can assure you that there are roughly a thousand places in DC where you can get better pizza than in Domino’s.

    Public trash cans, for instance.

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    Starfish

    January 14, 2019 at 9:46 pm

    Was the White House Chef not considered an essential employee? Were they affected by the shutdown?

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    different-church-lady

    January 14, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    @jonas:

    Ok, fine!!” said an exasperated Trump, “How about some fucking Whoppers, then?

    Mr. Trump then began by reiterating his promise that Mexico would pay for the border wall…

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    Amir Khalid

    January 14, 2019 at 9:48 pm

    @jl:
    I didn’t know Pringles cans were watertight. They sure don’t look that way to me.

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    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    @raven:

    No, no, I’m in Connecticut. But there’s a McDonald’s two blocks from my house too. It’s just not the same McDonald’s.

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    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    @Duane:

    Invited to the White House as honored guests and this idiot president serves cold fast food.

    There’s always a tweet. Remember all the times he bagged on the Obama’s for supposedly not hosting classy enough WH dinners? Jeebus, the poor Clemson players are lucky he doesn’t just pitch the burgers at them like they were Puerto Rico hurricane victims. “Hey, go long!”

  260. 260.

    raven

    January 14, 2019 at 9:50 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Thank goodness!

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    lollipopguild

    January 14, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    @Elizabelle: The Obamas are two of the classiest people to ever live in the White House, if I were them I would be laughing my ass off.

  262. 262.

    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid: They’re not. That was, I’m sure, part of the whole vivid tableau.

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    Quinerly

    January 14, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    @jonas: I continue to be fascinated by this Pringles Scooting Chick. She never even made it in the store but yet was on a store scooter in the parking lot. That update I posted up thread said she had been scooting around several hrs before 6:30AM. She may be my new spirit animal. I want to know more.

  264. 264.

    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    @Jinchi:

    Oh my God. I just realized, Trump had to order fast food, because all “non-essential” staff are on furlough.

    I don’t know if the WH cooking staff are furloughed or not, but you’d think a “billionaire” president — with an ounce of class or decency — would say, “you know, this week, I’m paying the salaries of all food service staff so we can have this celebration,” and host an actual damn decent luncheon instead of serving some of our nation’s most talented young athletes….cold french fries and soggy cheeseburgers.

    But Michelle Obama said to eat your vegetables and get exercise, so there are war crimes on the other side to answer for, I suppose.

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    Gravenstone

    January 14, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    @Ken: I think you mean Papa Johns? //

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    sgrAstar

    January 14, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    @Jeffro: what the hell does this have to do with “boomer rule”? FAIL.

  267. 267.

    Elizabelle

    January 14, 2019 at 10:03 pm

    I kid you not, this is in the LA Times at the moment! Full story, in their sports roundup.

    If you ever hoped to be invited to dinner at the White House, you may want to put that on hold for a while.

    Clemson’s national championship football team went to the White House to be honored for winning the title, and President Trump had an elaborate feast ready for them:

    “The Clemson national championship team will be coming tonight. It will be exciting,” Trump said. “Very great team. An unbelievable team. I think we’re going to serve McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger Kings with some pizza. I really mean it. It will be interesting. I would think that’s their favorite food.”

    With much of the government shut down, the President paid for the food himself.

    Rumor has it that Trump wanted to serve churros for dessert, but couldn’t get funding for a wall to surround the churros to keep them confined to their part of the table.

    Whoa. I wonder if that was meant to make it to the website.

  268. 268.

    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 10:09 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    he’d probably rather have a QP than a trump hotel 75 dollar steak, well done

    Don’t forget the ketchup.

    I would really like him to host a bunch of stockmen from Nebraska or Texas for a big cookout at the WH and serve them all cheap-ass, over-done steaks, just like he likes ’em. I would want them on camera, of course, singing the praises of dear leader’s wonderful appreciation of their great commodity as they worked through each bite of shoe leather.

    But Obama once ordered a “fancy” kind of mustard on a sandwich, so there are war crimes to account for on both sides, amirite?

  269. 269.

    Mike in NC

    January 14, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    @jonas: The country has still yet to recover from that time Obama violated the Constitution by wearing a tan suit.

  270. 270.

    jonas

    January 14, 2019 at 10:20 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    “I would think that’s their favorite food.”

    God, what a dickhead. If a group of Olympic gymnasts came to the WH is he going to offer them all a can of TaB soda?

  271. 271.

    zhena gogolia

    January 14, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    I saw someone refer to that as “wearing a tan suit to a funeral.” No, it was TO A PRESS CONFERENCE. And it was covered more extensively than Trump eating the notes of his meeting with Putin.

  272. 272.

    Ken

    January 14, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    @jonas:

    I would really like him to host a bunch of stockmen from Nebraska or Texas for a big cookout at the WH and serve them all cheap-ass, over-done steaks

    Extra points if it later turns out the beef was imported from Argentina.

    I suppose that could be a thing with the fast food – don’t some of those chains promise that, although they buy beef from Central and South America, it’s not raised on (former) tropical forests?

  273. 273.

    Ruckus

    January 14, 2019 at 10:23 pm

    @raven:
    I take magnesium oxide and B2 every day for migraines. That and staying far away from triggers as possible limits my migraines. Like anything else it doesn’t work for everyone but it has made a huge difference for me.

  274. 274.

    Jinchi

    January 14, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    @jonas:

    you know, this week, I’m paying the salaries of all food service staff so we can have this celebration

    That would be illegal. He can’t simply choose to pay some federal employees to do their job out of his own pocket. If they’re furloughed they can’t work. He could probably hire a completely different group of caterers on his own dime, though.

    It’s like the clod who tried to run a GoFundMe for the Wall. Even if he had raised the full amount, it wouldn’t be legal for him to simply hand it over and demand it be spent on Trump’s pet project.

  275. 275.

    Suzanne

    January 14, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    @Honus:

    it’s not a gesture of contempt. He honestly believes that Wendy’s, Macdonalds and Burger King is the favorite food of your black men. It’s somehow oddly empathetic.

    Remember that Trump loves this stuff. Apparently he has Big Macs and fried chicken served to him on domed platters. His love of fast food was one of those semiotic clues to the deplorables. “A poor man’s idea of a rich man,” for sure.

    OTOH, Obama ate arugula and that how we all knew that he was an uppity foreigner.

  276. 276.

    Duane

    January 14, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    @different-church-lady: It’s what criminals do. After awhile you need a new alias. They’ll need another one after the Trumpov scandal. Maybe be honest for once and call themselves assholes. Everyone else does.

  277. 277.

    Mnemosyne

    January 14, 2019 at 10:47 pm

    @lamh36:

    You know, there actually would have been ways to serve fast food and make it cool and fun. Here in So Cal, people will have the In N Out Burger truck come to their wedding and cook everything fresh, and I can’t imagine that no chain in DC has something similar.

    The very least he could have done was have his frickin’ hotel cater burgers and fries. But, nope, he had to be a cheap asshole and blame his cheapness on everyone else.

  278. 278.

    Mnemosyne

    January 14, 2019 at 11:08 pm

    @raven:

    I keep meaning to do the magnesium supplements that Ruckus keeps talking about, but I haven’t gotten around to it.

    I’m annoyed because I started feeling weird yesterday afternoon but didn’t realize what it was until around 1 am. I might have been able to nip it in the bud if I’d taken my Excedrin earlier.

  279. 279.

    Mnemosyne

    January 14, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    The LA Times doesn’t give a fuck about Trump, especially now that they’re locally owned again.

    I keep telling all of yinz, out here in Hell-Lay even old white guys are vocally contemptuous of Trump. Young white male assholes who want to pick fights are way more likely to declare themselves Trumpers.

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    VOR

    January 14, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    @Mnemosyne: One of my son’s friends worked for a Culvers franchise where they would send a team to cater parties. Subway or Jimmy John’s could do cold sandwiches which could at least sit for a little while, unlike fast food burgers. A colleague brought in a food truck for a work event serving over 100 people. There have to be a lot of caterers in the DC area who would be thrilled to cater a White House event.

  281. 281.

    Joseph A. Miller

    January 15, 2019 at 12:51 am

    @Jeffro: Oh, enough of this stupid “Boomer” crap. It’s a pathetic stereotype and a way to generalize about millions of people you don’t know. I’m really tired of it, and I’m equally tired of cliches about “Millennials” and “Gen Xers”. Seriously, can we stop with these labels?

  282. 282.

    Death Panel Truck

    January 15, 2019 at 5:32 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The only thing missing was the generic cans of “Cola” and “Lemon-Lime Soda”

    We kids sat at the card table on the back porch and sipped warm store-brand ginger ale poured from glass bottles into wax cups. It was 1968. One of my brothers killed a horsefly and dropped it into my cup. I swallowed it, and gagged trying to cough it up. I still haven’t forgiven the fucking bastard, and he’s been dead for 39 years.

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