... So... what's been going on? Government shutdown? Still on, but sorta tiresome. Sports? No one cares except me. My personal life? Ditto. Food? Maybe, I like food.
Oh I know.
Yessss.
For those of you who don't live on the internet like I do, that is a fairly obscure person called the president of the United States of America up there, and on the table in front of him is a spread of hundreds of burgers and other things from fast food chains. behind him, as always, a picture of Abraham Lincoln surveys the room.
What's the occasion you ask? Well today the Clemson football team visited the White House, I don't follow college sports but they won a championship and that is what you do apparently. I guess the White House kitchen staff is furloughed due tot he shutdown, which seemed dubious to me but apparently is actually true so our president made the magnanimous gesture of buying lunch for the victors out of pocket.
And he chose a spread from Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, and Domino's.
I just- I don't-, hmm.
First things first I guess, if Obama had done it I wouldn't have had much of a problem. If you have ever seen me you would know I don't skeeve fast food, it's a problem actually, and the young folks visiting the WH probably got a little bit of a kick out of it, additionally the team employs a dietitian who's specific purpose is to keep them from eating this kind of stuff, so it might even have been a little bit of a treat. The Orange One claims that all the food was eaten so maybe that's a wash.
But here's the thing, if Obama had done it, it would have been after doing some research on the team, taking opinions and so on, he(or rather his staff) would have made sure it was something they actually wanted before going ahead with the plan, and even then he would have caught no end of shit from the media for it, and rightfully so! You get an invite to the White House from the President maybe once in your life and this is what you eat? In the seat of our nation's power? It makes the country look cheap at best.
Put it in today's context, a billionaire bought you lunch at the White House after winning the highest honor possible at your profession's current level. Remember, the president owns a hotel literally just down the street, it's staff aren't furloughed. Remember, the president is a literal billionaire, he could have handed each of those football players a million bucks when they walked through the doors and it wouldn't have hurt him appreciably and this is what he comes up with? Fucking Burger King? Now don't get me wrong I love me a Whopper, had one the other day in fact, but I am poor as hell and if I was hosting friends from out of town I would make sure they had better, in fact, I did host friends from out of town and I did make sure they had better! I made chicken wings, they were great. Yes we went to Taco Bell the next day, but that isn't the point. I'm not the president.
This goes back to the image of the office I've talked about before, Obama got shit for not saluting a member of his marine honor guard once, and for wearing a tan suit in public. Both incredibly minor things that his enemies dumped on him endlessly for, he knew they were minor, those events didn't hurt his agenda even a little bit, but you know what? He didn't fucking do it again. Because he was the president and he knows that his image is not under his complete control, even know he makes very few statements and his public appearances are still impeccably vetted for that same reason.
Meanwhile this yahoo is serving hours old fast food hamburgers in the White House and still refuses to get his suit properly tailored.
It just shows how little thought he puts into the image of the office, it is no secret that he likes fast food from major chains, apparently it is due to the fact that quality is consistent and the anonymity of take out means people are less likely to be able to mess with his food on purpose. That's fine, there is no shame in that, but as the president you don't get to do what you like all the time.
Fuck me the image control on this administration is so bad. Like, you could easily have hired someone to make good burgers and sides to serve at the White House, fuck man, I don't know what the weather is like in DC right now but I imagine one could even set up a full on cookout. Can you imagine a better way to show you are a president in touch with the people than that? Fucking get behind the grill with a spatula and an apron saying "Kiss the president" or some shit for a photo op. have some good burgers, maybe some ribs or whatever. Clemson is in South Carolina, fuckin' get some recipes from the area, hell call some team moms/dads for it. Publicity fuckin' gold there.
PUT SOME EFFORT INTO IT.
That's the problem, there was no effort, here's the thing. The visit was scheduled, and either no one told Trump that they needed to feed the team, or he forgot that there was no staff, and so everyone panicked and he decided that everyone gets to share his lunch(clearly they ordered more than usual, this isn't a fat joke), in a properly run organization this would have been planned out weeks ago, yes weeks, there would have been contingency plans depending on who won, and all he would have had to do would be sign off on it.
That's the story of this whole administration though isn't it, lack of effort? I mean they could have passed the most hard right, fascist agenda they could have imagined, if anyone had been willing to put even the smallest amount of effort into getting it done instead of this namby pamby, partial shutdown bullcrap.
For which I guess we should all be grateful.
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