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- "Some of the players whooped as they saw the food spread," according to reporters at the event.
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Trump had rarely used it, and had put on the market and rented it out at different times.[1] In June 2019, he quietly sold the property, off-market, for $13.5 million. Biden also joked about Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert being booted from a "Beetlejuice" musical in September. "We're here as a reminder that folks think what's going on in Congress is political theater. That’s not true. If Congress were theater, they would've thrown out Lauren Boebert a long time ago," he said.
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"I would be very surprised if we have a turnout rate like we saw in 2020," McDonald said. "And the people who would most likely then not participate ... are going to be these lower-education voters. And so it's going to pose a real challenge to the Trump campaign, to energize these folks yet again to vote in 2020." While North Carolina was also close in 2020 — within 2 points — given its history of voting Republican, it begins the cycle in the Lean Republican category.
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"Because of the shutdown, as you know, we have the great Clemson team with us," Trump said. "So we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me. Lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza, I think they'd like it better than anything we could give. And so, we'll have a little fun." Clemson University’s football team on Thursday joined Donald Trump for dinner to celebrate their win over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship. However, the government shutdown has left much of the White House staff furloughed, forcing the president to set the menu, the spokesman said.
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There is a difference, however, between criticizing the industry that makes fast food inescapable and proclaiming one’s own moral superiority over those who eat it (which is to say, most of us). No, there’s nothing wrong with college athletes, or the president, or anyone, really, eating fast food if they want to. But Trump’s comments that presume college athletes, who likely take great care of their bodies, would prefer a cheap buffet of burgers and fries over the kinds of food that one would expect to be served during a White House visit, have raised concern for some. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said many of the staff in the White House residence are absent because of the shutdown, “so the president is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone’s favourite fast foods”. Donald Trump ordered a feast of fast food for a White House reception as many catering staff were absent because of the ongoing government shutdown.
“He said, ‘Did you see the interview last night with Anderson Cooper and Karen McDougal? I thought you had, and we had, an agreement with Karen McDougal that she can’t give any interviews or be on any television shows,” Mr Pecker recalled Mr Trump saying at the time. But after CNN aired an interview with Ms McDougal in March 2018, more than one year after Mr Trump entered office, an outraged president Trump allegedly called Mr Pecker to complain. He also thanked him for handling Ms McDougal’s “situation,” and said the story “would be very embarrassing … to him, his family and the campaign,” according to Mr Pecker. According to Mr Pecker’s testimony in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, after taking office, Mr Trump his position in the White House to manage blowback from the scheme.
"Some of the players whooped as they saw the food spread," according to reporters at the event.
For some, Trump’s comments, particularly when he speculated to reporters prior to the event that “I would think that’s their favorite food,” referring to chains like McDonald’s and Wendy’s, rang as classist or racist. After he entered the Oval Office, Mr Trump invited Mr Pecker to the White House for a “thank you dinner” for his help in killing the stories, he testified. Mr Pecker recalled in court a time when then-president-elect asked him “how’s our girl?
Trump served McDonald’s and Burger King to the Clemson football team - Vox.com
Trump served McDonald’s and Burger King to the Clemson football team.
Posted: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT [source]
He also seems happy to pressure others to eat fast food, even when he isn't being paid. In 1995, Trump tried to force Madonna and fashion designer Donatella Versace to eat KFC with him while the pair was staying at Mar-a-Lago, Versace told Vogue. "I like it all. It's all good stuff. Great American food," the president says in the video taken by Walker. President Trump is serving McDonald's and Wendy's at the White House on Monday night — but it's far from the first time the president's enjoyment of fast food has been apparent. "Because the Democrats refuse to negotiate on border security, much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed - so the President is personally paying for the event to be catered with some of everyone's favourite fast foods." Trump told reporters ahead of the event that the meal was for "very large people that like eating."
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On Wednesday, Mr Trump walked into a McDonald’s outlet with a group of camerapersons, reporters and aides to order a “nice array” of food for himself. On Saturday (local time) President Trump tweeted the government would be "out for a long time unless the Democrats come back from their 'vacations' and get back to work". "If you went to a wedding or a fancy event and were served cold burgers you'd probably think the host was a cheap bastard," one Twitter user said. The 72-year-old is a known fan of fast food himself, often seen tucking into KFC. Speaking to media after the meal, President Trump confirmed he had paid for dinner out of his own pocket. The tendency of negative feeling to attach to small details that have nothing to do with the bigger picture is a phenomenon well known to political operatives, who of course exploit them for their own ends.
The move has been ridiculed by many on social media who say it was a bizarre choice for dinner guests at the White House. As Trump’s criminal case continues to unfold, a depressing end to the week in the form of Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for sex crimes being overturned by the New York court of appeals. Weinstein must still serve a 16-year sentence in California on separate charges, but this case, which the appellate court found to contain errors made by the judge, will have to be retried from scratch.
The protesters chanted, "Shame on you!" as attendees passed them to enter the hotel. They also yelled criticism of the media and a large sign read, "Stop media complicity in genocide." While the dinner, a tradition dating back 100 years, played out inside the ballroom, hundreds of protesters mobilized outside the venue to call for a cease-fire and criticize Biden's response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
But it was also a choice that Trump and the White House blamed on the partial government shutdown, the longest in US history. Like many other federal institutions, the White House kitchen was not operating at the time, partly a result of Trump’s refusal to support a bill that doesn’t include funding for a $5 billion wall on the Mexican border. Donald Trump’s appearance in criminal court on Monday has raised many questions, constitutional and otherwise, but on the evidence of the first day I find myself most curious about the former president’s McDonald’s order. During jury selection last week, the Daily Mail reported on a $700 (£560) McDonald’s order put in by Trump staffers that included 27 orders of fries, 27 quarter pounders, a bunch of nuggets and no drinks. A McDonald’s employee complained anonymously that they didn’t leave a tip – in line with everyone who eats at McDonald’s – but still. “Because of the shutdown, we went out and we ordered American fast food paid for by me,” he told reporters.
To better understand the landscape for the presidential election with a little more than six months to go, here is our initial Electoral Vote map of the cycle. A long list of VIP guests, including journalists and celebrities from Chris Pine to Molly Ringwald, arrived in black-tie attire as more than 100 protesters confronted attendees in front of the Washington Hilton hotel chanting "shame on you" and other slogans. Later, protesters called for the fall of Western media, chanting, "Brick by brick, wall by wall, Western media will fall." The former president's love of fast food — especially McDonald's — has been well-documented. Donald Trump bragged about his knowledge of a McDonald’s menu at one of the fast food chain’s outlets in East Palestine, Ohio.
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