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| As shutdown bites, Trump foots bill for fast food feast |
| 2019-01-16 |
| [DAWN] With White House residence staff among those hit by the United States government shutdown, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... personally ordered in an "all American" feast of burgers and pizza on Monday for a visiting football team. "Because of the shutdown, as you know ... we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me," the president quipped, as he prepared to host the Clemson Tigers university players to celebrate their national championship win. "I think they'd like it better than anything we could give," said Trump, after landing back at the White House following a day trip to New Orleans. "We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many French fries, all of our favourite foods ‐ I want to see what's here when we leave, because I don't think it's going to be much," the president mused. Asked to name his own favourite fast food ‐ as he stood smiling behind the gargantuan spread ‐ Trump demurred, insisting: "I like them all." "If it's American, I like it. It's all American stuff." "The reason we did this is because of the shutdown," he added. "We want to make sure that everything is right, so we sent out, we got this." Around 800,000 federal employees ‐ including much of the White House residence staff ‐ have been on mandatory leave or working without pay for 24 days as Donald Trump and Congress wrangle over funding for a wall on the southern border. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Hamburgers, French fries, Pizzas All American stuff? Oh, yeah. We done culturally appropriated the hell out of that stuff. One more reason why America totally rocks. We do thank y'all for creating it, though. Sharing is caring! /me recalls a story his high school German teacher told about taking a visiting German buddy to an American fast food restaurant. Poor dude was bemused to see to hamburgers and frankfurters on the menu. "What, you are eating people from Franfurt?" And let us not forget the immortal words of President Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner." (I am a jelly donut) |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-01-16 16:55 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Beavis 2019-01-16 16:05 |
| #3 They get back paid when Congress comes to its senses. Take out a loan. |
| Posted by: Fat Bob Glaise8594 2019-01-16 15:26 |
| #2 Hamburgers, French fries, Pizzas All American stuff Oh? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-01-16 15:24 |
| #1 What's more important? Sitting down at a State Dinner for a College Athlete -OR- being able to say the POTUS shook his hand in the White House while he was eating a Big Macâ„¢? The second is a great story to tell to the Grand-kids. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-01-16 14:39 |