Just SayingGod help us all, Donald Trump is making fast food great again
- Yonden Lhatoo is still picking his jaw up off the floor after the US president orders junk food from McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King for a candlelit banquet at the White House
It was a surreal scene, an unholy union of stately opulence with trailer-trash Epicureanism.
With forefather Abraham Lincoln looking down upon him from a 19th century portrait on the wall, the man making America great again presented a mahogany dining table piled high with boxes of Quarter Pounders, Filet-O-Fishes and McNuggets stacked on polished silver trays and flanked by gold candelabra. Ornate sterling gravy boats were overflowing with dipping sauce packs, and fries had been transferred from their original containers into paper cups sporting the presidential seal.
Fast food at room temperature is not really most people’s cup of tea, especially when invited to a banquet in their honour at the White House. But it was quintessential Trump all the way – indecent and unapologetic. “I like it all,” he said. “It’s all good stuff. Great American food.”