As if the junk food weren't bad enough, Trump walked out on the athletes right after speaking.

[tblue37]

He didn't chat, shake hands, or mingle, as a host normally does.

Considering that the dinner (blech!) was supposedly to honor them for their accomplishments, just walking out like that was even more of an insult than serving them cold, stale, nasty junk food.

[uponit7771]

1. He's a millionaire that can swing for better than cold hamburgers?! Damn, like school on the weekend

.... no class

[KPN]

8. You really think he sprung for this?

I don’t think so. We would be naive to believe this. The truth is we, the taxpayers, bought all those hamberders.

[uponit7771]

11. +1, damn ... just a grifter bastard... broke ass'd mentality

[Wellstone ruled]

2. That is the most insulting thing

anyone can do. You just do not f--up any honorarium like that. This will stay will these young people their whole lives. What a snub.

[CincyDem]

3. You think for a moment he could "mingle" and make small talk...

...in a room that is 50%+ minorities. I don't know for sure but I have to believe the Clemson team is a diverse group of young people who have, together, accomplished something great? What could Trump possibly have in common with them.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

4. The RW Talking Points On This Must Have Just Been Issued

Because I saw in 2 different Facebook posts from 2 different people, the SAME argument (from 2 different responders) almost verbatim. The response was: 1) That's what the athletes wanted/asked for, and they cheered when they got it, and 2) Had he served them lobster (one poster said "lobster and steak," the other one just said lobster), he would have been criticized for being too lavish while the government was shut down.

I'll bet you a shiny new dime that when you start scanning the comments about this in many different sites, there will be some version of the above in every one of them. Republicans are not so hot at thinking for themselves (or thinking in general, really), but they sure know how to parrot back what they've been told to believe.

[tblue37]

5. +1. nt

[gratuitous]

7. Also, what was the big fat hurry?

The championship game was just last Monday; when Alabama won last year, the team went to the White House in April, not on a January weeknight in snowbound DC.

[Canoe52]

12. He needs all the distractions he can create. The little orange snot new that

half of the news coverage afterwards was going to be that he served fast food at the event.
And he was right.

[marlakay]

6. Actually i would find that a blessing

Soon as he left dump food in garbage.

[CrispyQ]

9. I thought it was extremely rude.

He is inappropriate ALL OF THE TIME.

[Hekate]

10. It was just a photo op to show that despite being alllll aloooone in the WH he could still feed ...

...those hungry young men with burgers despite the furloughs among the staff. That was all it was: just a photo of Generous Donny and a roomful of rapidly cooling burgers.

Of course he had plenty of other options. Too many to count. But it is always and only about him.

Godsdamn he is an embarrassment.

[Sneederbunk]

13. Distraction Accomplished.