Trump's pissed because there's just nowhere in this one-horse town where a fella can get a decent Big Mac.

There’s a McDonald’s within walking distance of Buckingham Palace.

The food is less packed with preservatives and chemical crap.

Speaking from experience, McD's is better over-seas.

(topped with egg and teriyaki sauce)
my taste buds: chef's kiss
my heart: melodramatic death scene

My town has approximately three thousand Chinese restaurants and I'd trade 'em all for one Hokka Hokka Tei or Hotto Motto bento store.

Like he's gonna walk?

He can get his Big Mac anytime he wants one.

I was struck when I visited London at all the US fast food available there.

I had flown the red-eye from Boston to Heathrow, arriving at about 6:30am. I got to my hotel around 8am and was not able to check-in so I left my luggage there and took the tube to Piccadilly Circus. I walked up the stairs to the street and directly in front of me was a Starbucks.....ugh...I traveled from San Diego to London just to be greeted by Starbucks! And just down the way, KFC on one side of the street and McDonald's on the other.

and other countries in the 1980s. I was part of the orchestra that accompanied the group. I can't tell you how many times the tour bus let people off at a MacDonald's store for lunch. WTF? I either ate from a street vendor or went into a bar or pub and had my lunch. Why on Earth would anyone travel to another country and eat at Micky Ds? Amazing.

I frankly don’t consider myself incurious or fearful of food from other places, but I can and will get sick of it if I’m in a country for a long period of time.

But don’t bother clarifying. I’m not that interested.

I like to experience and sample the local cuisine when I"m traveling. I don't want to eat what I can get at home!

On another note: What do you play MineralMan?

I"m a woodwind player myself, focusing on Flute and Piccolo. I don't play double reeds and my clarinet playing leaves a whole lot to be desired but I'm pretty good on sax (have played them all at some point).

to play with orchestras on a pick-up basis. That Euro tour was one such instance. Now, mind you, I had to pay for the trip, about $2500 for a two-week 7-country performing tour, but it was more than worth it. The vocal group was world-class, so we had great audiences and got to play in cathedrals and large halls in major cities. In fact, taking the orchestra with them was my idea, introduced at their annual Messiah performance and rehearsals. I was always principal oboe for that orchestra for those performances.

So, it ended up being a popular idea and the other orchestra members were eager to go, so we went. Great fun, although in our 14 days, we played 13 different venues, so we spent an awful lot of time on the tour buses, traveling to the next city. Still, I got to see a lot of places I hadn't visited before, so, it was all good.

I never ate in any American fast food place, either. Why would I, with local restaurants, pubs, and cafes everywhere?

the oboe player was voted most neurotic by other members of the Orchestra....must be all that back pressure....LOL!

Check out this take on the different players in the orchestra.....apparently I'm supposed to be over-sexed!

https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/the-truth-about-orchestral-players

An oboe burns faster.

Always have loved that joke.

After I parked and walked about a block, I remembered that the car window was down. I rushed back but was too late. Someone had already left another bagpipe.

I'm far from neurotic. I took up the oboe in high school, because nobody else wanted to play the instrument. I soon discovered that playing a relatively rare instrument meant lots more opportunities to play. I laid off of it for a couple of decades, and then took it up again in my 30s. After individual practice to get myself up to a standard that would pass muster in most casual groups, I let it be known that I was available on a pick-up basis. I also played with a woodwind quintet that worked very hard to build a solid repertory and found itself playing all over the place and actually being paid to do so.

I was never a professional level player, though. I was more of an advanced amateur who could play musically and who could learn just about any music with some practice. I could hold my own, but often found myself sitting next to someone who was miles better at the oboe than I was. But, in those situations, I was filling in for a missing player and could handle the second oboe parts well enough not to be noticed as an amateur.

Fortunately, I lived in a place with lots of opportunities to play. There were many smaller orchestras and pick-up groups that assembled for some particular purpose. I also got to play in pit orchestras for musical theater groups, one of my favorite things. In those, I was the woodwind player, taking up whatever instruments that the score called for. I remember one performance where I played everything from a piccolo to a baritone saxophone. Enormous fun. As long as I had time to learn the score, I could do just fine.

I had to give up the oboe, though, when my doctor cautioned me about my high blood pressure, which was not made lower by playing that instrument. Oh, well...it was great fun while it lasted.

There are several reasons for this. I find British food, by and large, to be quite vile. Particularly pub fare and “Sunday roasts”. Also, when on a 2-3 week trip a little taste of home is nice. We were recently in Italy for a couple of weeks and about halfway through, when we were beginning to tire of Italian food, we stopped in for some McDonald’s. It hit the spot.

So no, I wouldn’t travel to Europe just to eat at McDonalds, but it can be a nice change of pace on long trips.

you can count on finding Indian restaurants and restaurants serving French cuisine. I'm also a big fan of traditional English breakfast, and actually enjoy some pub foods.

Frankly, I can't imagine resorting to American fast food anywhere in the world except in the USA.

You have not really visited England until you try fish and chips.

Apparently, that location is doing gangbusters business for the company...
London and Paris both have ample supplies of American junk food purveyors!
Luckily both cities are also stuffed full of far better local fare and usually in the same block or neighborhood!

Shockingly, I also found this article from 2016 about the same restaurant location:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/03/mcdonalds-on-paris-champs-elysees-gets-an-upscale-makeover.html

Whether the French or the annual hordes of Paris tourists are to blame, the McDonald’s flagship on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is the fast food company’s most successful location in the world. It reopened in late February after a renovation that included an upscale, industrial-inspired makeover by French designer Patrick Norguet.

at the Tower of London....in case anyone might be taken into custody for something.....

He probably doesn't want to answer questions about the House resuming hearings today.

"Nooooooo!! Nooooooo!!!
They're all gonna laugh at you!!!"

Trump is the Butt of the World's Joke.

Looking at ways he can use abuse his powers to hurt them with, and threaten revenge for their making fun of him publicly. They're all laughing at him now. The fool will go after them hurting our country because he made a fool of himself, again. His trips abroad keep showing how stupid he really is.

But Trumpy is truly batshit crazy and has no interest in any kind of self-assessment. He only shows raw, infantile emotion. He may or may not be "stupid", but he sure is nuts. And mean. This is why the GOP is terrified of him. Trumpy has no emotional buffers. He's constantly starving for adoration from and subservience of others.

You’re thinking about things from the perspective of a not-stupid person. Let John Cleese explain why stupid people must double down on their stupid:

I only have 3 words to say about that, Bwaaaa Ha Ha

of trumpetiers clogging that thread (on USA Todays twitter) brings not only amazement to me but shame. "Our Leader" this and "Our Leader" that...… sounds like well, you know what it sounds like I don't even have to say it.

When a Trumpie uses the words “Our President”, it’s a dead giveaway.

I know not the same because he's a tyrannical monster and our leaders are very fine people. But we do say the word a lot.

Or even "my leader". I don't have a leader and never will. Even in the military I never called anyone "our or my leader" ever.

I guess you can call me leaderless. And even "our" or "my" president I rarely use. Even with Obama, it was usually "the" president not "our or my."

I don't need a leader and the president is of the US. The president is Not president of me.

It just always sounds so monarchy-like.

I don't call anyone my leader,or my betters because I do not want to be lead ,and secondly equality is the truth and having self sovereignty is vitally important to me. An inner locus of control is the way to go. But it comes with consequences you learn from. If you want to be independent,learn stuff,become courageous,be a free thinker and grow more twords being better person than You were yesterday
practice self sovereignty.

We are all absolute kings of our self,whether you give away your own power to a "leader" or other things ,or not .

In THOSE words? "Our Leader"?! I have never called Ms. Pelosi "our leader" or any other of our truly elected leaders by that phrasing. "Our Leader" sounds more cultish and authoritarian than anything I've seen in here. Our leaders are one thing "Our Leader" is something quite different imo.

He's suffering from withdrawal.

Also, he's surrounded by intelligent leaders who don't slobber over every incoherent syllable and childish nickname.

What trump sees:
https://m.

About 20 times. Thanks.

Laugh at his ignorance and his braying about all his nonexistent accomplishments. European leaders have essentially written off the US, and they’re forming alliances without us. The US has been a world leader my whole life. It’s hard to imagine how things will change as we continue to lose our status. It isn’t just Trump—it’s the Republican Party too as they have shown their willingness to support unlawful actions that damage other countries. World leaders can no longer trust either the president or half of Congress. And they do not trust US citizens because we are the people (not us personally) who continue to elect representatives who have shown that they care more about their own power than preserving traditional alliances and the rule of law.

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Watch. It's just a matter of time before he's back on the Defunding NATO train.

He likes to talk big when around people to get props, but once he leaves, he'll stab them in the back.

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He declares things publicly, then as soon as Stephen Miller, and the rest of his ear whisperers get hold of him he does a 180. Your last line is dead on.

I have been saying for 3 years., all you have to do is laugh in his face at his ignorance. He WILL stroke, end game. Same with Jordan, same with Nunez, same with all his besties. Arrogant high strung assholes ready to blow. So..........pop goes the weasels.❤️💥💔

but booing works too.

We should laugh, boo, and blow the hell out of whistles, at all of them every time they are in public.

for me anyway.

Such an embarrassment for our country.

but he's had extremely bad hair days since he reached England. I don't know if his team of hair wranglers wasn't allowed to suck up taxpayer dollars to make the trip this time or what, but his hair has been off-the-charts unmanageable, even for him. Imagine looking like a laughable, ridiculous fool and acting like a risible dip-shit too! Even more than normal, I mean.

Trump needs to focus on hurting the correct people, not just America as a whole.

When your wife sleeps on another floor and makes googly eyes at your arch nemesis, you'd have issues as well.

I wonder if she cheats on the grown boy she's married to?

I wonder if the first nude lady does?

The Don is passed his prime by a long shot and Jared is gone a whole lot. Both women already have plenty of money so there are probably lots of men making passes at them constantly.
Let's face it--morals are not big with them.

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I’m willing to bet those three knew exactly what they were doing. Making the orange one mad was intentional to watch him throw a tantrum. They probably even placed bets on whether he would stay or not. Lol. Playing him like a fiddle.

We fought like hell!

And we’re not stopping now.

You are no longer afraid of him.

Trumpy Dumpy probably trying to get to shorty Putin on the phone right now to sooth his fat ego....and get his orders.

There is nothing he hates more than being ridiculed and laughed at. It means you don't take him seriously and don't fear him and you can see right through his bullshit "strong man" facade. He must be furious and humiliated right now. I can just imagine what he was like on the flight back home. Probably trying to strike the fear of god into everyone around him.

Baby! Baby!! Waaah!!! WAAAH!!!

His insults and vulgar comments accumulate daily, but let anyone say anything, no matter how trivial, and he behaves like a petulant child.

We can hope and pray he doesn’t decide to take out the world along with him.

Fuck RepubliCONs.

Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) Tweeted:
The president boarding Marine One in London to leave NATO earlier than planned l. https://t.co/WrJNKqzMdM

Link to tweet

n/t