Trump spent about $3,000 on Clemson fast food spread: analysis

[DonViejo]

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/15/19 09:44 AM EST

The White House spent roughly $2,900 on food from various fast food chains around the Washington, D.C., metro area on Monday to host Clemson University's championship football team, according to an analysis from The Washington Post.

The Post, which looked at photographs of the event that showed multiple angles of the massive spread of hamburgers, pizzas, chicken nuggets and french fries from various fast food chains, including Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's, estimated the total cost to be $2,911.44. Half of that money was spent at McDonald's alone, the Post reports, though it notes that the cost drops, to $2,437.11

A request for comment from The Hill to the White House regarding the total price was not immediately returned Tuesday morning.

Some of the costs in the Post's analysis were educated guesses, due to the unique setup of the dinner, which included McDonald's and Wendy's fries being removed from their containers and placed in White House dishes.

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. Pocket change. He should have hired a catering company.

[Grasswire2]

9. he owns a catering company two blocks away. nt

[redstatebluegirl]

10. Well those Black athletes were not worth that to him.

[gratuitous]

12. I'm surprised Trump didn't play the theme from "The Jeffersons"

That was staple bumper music for his pal Rush whenever he did a segment on the Obamas.

[Freethinker65]

2. If he actually paid, and has a receipt, I wonder if he will write it off his taxes?

[subterranean]

14. You bet he will. That's probably why he inflated the number of burgers.

So he can take a bigger tax write-off. That's the way he's always operated.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. That's counting the coupons & customer reward points?

You know he used 'em.

[SharonClark]

4. Doesn't the Post have better things to do?

[irisblue]

11. They can/do multi task.

They report the news, post columns and recipes.

So I'm not clear about your point.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Trump didn't spend a dime. Dimes to donuts says the money will come out of his reelection campaign

The orange anus NEVER uses his own money

[lame54]

6. The headline should read...

Trump Feeds Clemson His Leftovers

[niyad]

8. you nearly owed me a keyboard

[niyad]

7. I will only believe (not sure even then) that the tangerine tyrant paid out of his own pocket, when

I see the cancelled checks with HIS name on them, and the receipts.

[world wide wally]

13. I remember being in line at a White Castile's at about midnight one time,

the guy in front of me ordered 400 hamburgers!
Luckily they dedicated one grill to him and kept the other one for people in line.
My usual order was for 6 because they are pretty small (but like 12 cents apiece)

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Could have provided a pretty nice sit-down dinner for the team for that price,

and it would have been more fitting for champions.

Once again, a tRump FAIL.

[cannabis_flower]

16. Ain't that the truth

Even having something catered by Olive Garden or Chili's would have been better than this.

[hedda_foil]

17. He could at least have ordered the burgers from Five Guys.