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BY ARIS FOLLEY - 01/15/19 11:33 AM EST
Former NFL star Reggie Bush called President Trumps decision to serve the national champion Clemson University Tigers fast food during their White House visit a "huge slap in the face" and "disrespectful on so many levels."
Just when you think youve seen it all, @ClemsonFB you guys deserve better you are world champs and this is the honor you receive from our nations leader!? Reggie said in the first of a series of tweets Tuesday criticizing Trump. This is disrespectful on so many levels, just a huge slap in the face after that kind of performance! SMH!
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Bush said in another that if he resided in Washington, he would have taken that whole team to dinner at a nice restaurant after seeing this!
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What a joke! he added.
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https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/425406-reggie-bush-calls-trumps-fast-food-celebration-for-clemson-a
niyad
(113,607 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)just another fly by *45 photo Op.
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)were furloughed.
niyad
(113,607 posts)spread.
janterry
(4,429 posts)as though football players don't know good food??
I agree, it's an insult.
RockRaven
(15,026 posts)There's a story out there from his first year in the White House that Trump angrily rejected a hand-made hamburger from the White House chef because "it didn't taste right" and sent a peon out to the nearest McDonalds to get a Big Mac (or two) instead. This 70+ year old, supposedly high-class know-everything, supposed billionaire actually prefers fast food to fresh food.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Quick and easy. Pay them, then leave.
barbtries
(28,813 posts)Trump "had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade," Wolff reports.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Last year's Alabama champions didn't get their invite until April. What was the big fat hurry to get the Clemson team there just a week later?
I have a guess about that. It starts with "defl" and ends with "ection."
Demit
(11,238 posts)And what was with wearing the overcoat indoors?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)My, Mr. pResident, have you lost weight?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,291 posts)Maybe 325
tblue37
(65,490 posts)LisaM
(27,843 posts)of course it was a way to talk about the shutdown! Very perceptive.
FakeNoose
(32,817 posts)He couldn't hang around at the White House after those kids were finished eating.
Somebody might expect him to help clean up the mess.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)back at the burgers ! Hahahahaha
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,908 posts)there, probably a couple of hours at best, and how inedible it would have been.
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)I read a story about how someone found a 3 month old cheeseburger in a drawer at home and it tasted the same as they always taste. Just kind of cold.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,908 posts)ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)But Reggie Bush could honestly afford to fly to DC even though he doesn't live there.
athena
(4,187 posts)not just the fact that they were served cheap fast food, but also that Trump bragged about how he paid. If someone invited me to dinner and then tweeted that he paid, I would regret ever having accepted the invitation. When you pay for someones dinner, you make as small a deal of it as possible. You try to make the person forget about who paid, and you focus on what a good time you had.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)" I PAID for it!" Who would say that? Oh, wait.
catbyte
(34,483 posts)But I hear they're not accepting requests for funds these days. Sad!
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)Lars39
(26,117 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)he charged the $8 fee for Barron to be in Boy Scouts to his "charitable" foundation. Yes, he is that effing cheap.
Salviati
(6,009 posts)Everything is transactional to him. That's all his relationships with people consist of to him, what he has done for them, and what they can do for him.
Ohioboy
(3,248 posts)Seriously, I thought the whole thing was a joke complete with photo shopped picture, but then I found out it was real.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)To join them in such fine repast.
3catwoman3
(24,065 posts)...there were golden candelabra and silver trays - doesn't that class things up!
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)underpants
(182,947 posts)He has actually gawdied up the White House.
Notice the table with a gold tablecloth but nothin on it.
thinkingagain
(906 posts)If it was everyones favorite why didnt they?
Because it was cold and gross and they knew it.
Pizza might have been fine but cold burgers and fries yuck.
Is that salads in the clear containers? Maybe ok?
I dont see no Taco Bell just Big Macs ( I heard also wendys And Burger King )
To bad the players didnt say after his speech yes and after this meal we know who we are going to support leaving trump to think him when they would mean Dems.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)I can't believe there is no one in there who can tell this buffoon how stupid the idea of serving McDonalds is...what the hell is wrong with people? This is not only an insult on the team, this is an insult on the country. He may poo in a golden water closet, but he has the same class as what he deposits in it.
OMGWTF
(3,980 posts)Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)As in IMPEACH???
watoos
(7,142 posts)he is reverting back to his childhood days. Right now he's at the Happy Meal stage, when Clemson wins again next year they can expect to get pablum.
LiberalFighter
(51,166 posts)bullsnarfle
(254 posts)to something you never left...
LisaM
(27,843 posts)And, college football is revered in the South - if Trump disses the teams like this, he's going to lose more than a few of the fervent fan base.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)he'd have ordered Chick Fil A.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I guess we should be glad he didn't serve watermelon. I'm serious. Trump's knowledge and familiarity with people of color (of which the group has a large membership) is minimal and restricted to what he's heard from his white nationalist pals.
Remember when O'Lielly was surprised that blacks used utensils, when he had gone to a primarily black restaurant once? I kid you not.
OMGWTF
(3,980 posts)at the black restaurant. JFC these really are the mole people.
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)Botany
(70,613 posts)... 2 hour old Whoopers? Yum.
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)Other presidents have been fans of college football and would have a lot to say and ask.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)The Figment
(494 posts)What an insult
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)What a cheap ignorant fuck.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)They are American college football champs.
LIke in baisbol.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,312 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,231 posts)That's more like him.
Cha
(297,795 posts)calimary
(81,527 posts)The championship team? And the best he can do to honor them is this??? At the White House? Like he couldnt afford anything nicer. I would have viewed that as a slap in the face.
Just another of about 100-thousand stupid, gauche, miserly, and thoughtless things Hillary wouldnt have done.