So my first thought upon seeing these is “Why, then, do they not eat cake?”
And then I learned the actual story behind these photos: Clemson University’s football team (the Tigers) held their national championship celebration (15-0 win this season) at the White House last night (2019/01/14), but because much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed, Trump personally payed for the event to be catered with food from Burger King, McDonald’s, and Wendy’s. [source] [source]
McD’s sauces in gravy boat
Fries served in paper cups with the PotUS seal on them.
The combination of wealth and cheapness here is extraordinary.
POTUS has to cater a meal to honour guests, and offers to pay for it out of his own pocket (because of the shutdown he engineered) and then goes for the cheapest possible option.
Hell if he’d volunteered to organise a barbecue I’d have been ore impressed, but no… fast food?
My mind feels like it’s trying to change three different gears without a clutch.
Part of Trump’s obsession with fast food is apparently he’s a major germaphobe and considers prepackaged and fast foods to be more hygienic than anything else. That might also be why he eats his steaks so cooked to death.
apparently the players thought it was a joke and were… less that excited about eating junk food (they’re serious athletes)
Guys have a year round special athletics dining hall with their own nutritionist, and they go to the WHITE HOUSE and get served lukewarm congealed fast food
You know what McDonald’s fries are like when they’re left to sit out? Now picture a whole meal of that. From THE WHITE HOUSE.
It’s truly remarkable what a failure this man is on every level.
also, like: the juxtaposition of fast food on these silver platters surrounded by gold candelabras is just the clearest image of this administration we’ll likely ever get
Let’s also not forget that, in blatant violation of the emoluments clause, he has a restaurant branded with his name very, very close to the White House. He could very easily have arranged for that food- which, while reviews say is not good, at least isn’t fast food. And it would have cost him a fraction of what normal people are charged, because he wouldn’t have to pay the mark-up.
He likes the optics of this. He thought very seriously and decided that this was the best way to present things, either as a “fuck you” (to Dems “causing” the shutdown? To football players who remind him of the professionals who exercise their free speech rights with kneeling?) or because he genuinely think this makes him look good.
bella rollin up the the cullens house knowing full well her blood smells damn near irresistible but risking it all for a chance at finally getting dicked down by the weird boy from bio
*takes off my shirt in front of my love interest so she can see all my scars like in an angsty book scene*
Her, delicately tracing them with her fingertips: what……happened to you
Me: WELL that one’s where I lied down on a lightbulb and THAT one is from running through cornstalks barefoot and THAT one is because I kept scratching a mosquito bite in my sleep and THAT one is from fighting a goose and tHIs is from when I fell through a window in a tickle fight, an-
Memes have become so heavily context-dependent that they briefly spawned a side-phenomenon of corporations mistakenly assuming that the image combinations are simply random, and that “randomness” is what the new generation finds humorous, and then deliberately creating nonsense ads in a desperate attempt to appeal to the youth, which went on for several years before they finally started hiring younger social media managers.
“Don’t use your mental illness as an excuse” means “Change your behavior, apologize, and do better next time.”
“Don’t use your mental illness as an excuse” DOES NOT mean “Your symptoms are your fault, your disorder is not even an explanation, and you are a bad person if you behave less than neurotypical”
