Trump brings McDonald's into the White House
Was the president’s banquet of burgers, fries and nuggets for a team of student football players a way to satisfy his own desires or to send a political message?
Donald Trump's taste for food from fast food chains had long been known. His former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski wrote that aboard his personal plane “there were four main types of food: McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza and Diet Coke,” and that his favorite menu at McDonald's consisted of of two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish and a chocolate milkshake, recalls The New Yorker.
Also, according to the magazine, his choice to offer the Clemson University Tigers, university champions of American football, a fast-food banquet on January 14 - presented as a consequence of the shutdown, which would slow down the kitchens of the White House - is it perhaps, more profoundly, a way of “satisfying one's authentic desires: a golden living room filled with burgers and fried foods, no more Filet-O-Fish and Royal? Cheese that anyone could eat, mountains of food in unstable balance forming quantifiable proof of his presidential power. ”
“We're going to serve them McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King, along with some pizza. […] I would bet it's their favorite food, ”he told reporters. As The New Yorker notes, this
