• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    24 小时前

    Pete Strzok, now podcast cohost of Cleanup On Aisle 45 commented that seeing RFKjr in this pic reminded him of the old drug-cartel vetting practice of getting the new guy to sample the product (by nose or freebase, usually) to show that they’re true undergrounders and not a law-enforcement plant.

  • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
    1·
    1 天前

    So does he have a mini McDonald’s on his plane? Because that shot doesn’t have the best heat retention, so if he doesn’t have one then that’s some cold as or horribly reheated McDonald’s.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    6 天前

    The White House has one of the best chefs and kitchens in the world, and this dumbass will be ordering McD’s and KFC for 4 years.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      129·
      6 天前

      I hope so. Less cost to the taxpayer, and the high calorie and sodium count will send Trump to an early grave.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          5 天前

          Lol Trump doesn’t pay his bills. He still owes several cities from campaign rallies he held in like 2015. He’s infamous for not paying his bills, and was so for decades before he became president.

          There is no chance that Trump paid for this.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
          3·
          5 天前

          White House chefs who prepare the president’s meals are paid by the government.

          I am confused by this. He pays his meals, but the chefs are paid by the government? So he only pays for the ingredients?

          • Fermion@feddit.nl
            21·
            5 天前

            Would he? I’m terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.

            As bad as Trump is, I’m almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either “I have got to get in on this” or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "

            • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
              111·
              5 天前

              I’d at least be fairly confident Vance wouldn’t seriously suggest nuking a hurricane.

            • Ænima@lemm.ee
              6·
              5 天前

              In 4 years, though, I can bet Vance would leave if he lost the election. He doesn’t have the spine or charisma to do any showboating and grandstanding like tRump.

      • zephorah@lemm.ee
        8·
        6 天前

        There is a cockroach effect for some people when it comes to medical matters, like cancer gets them instead of the other way around.

    • Linktank
      37·
      6 天前

      This was the exact sentiment that crossed my mind. The amount of money these dipshits have available and they’re eating that crap? I don’t even believe it. This HAD to be a photo op to make the idiots believe “Wow they eat what I eat” before they rolled in the burnt steak with ketchup and whatever else they actually prefer.

      • darkpanda@lemmy.ca
        34·
        6 天前

        Nah it’s probably legit. Trump is famous for eating like trash. His usual order is reported to be two Big Macs and a Filet-o-fish, but I only see one Big Mac on his tray so maybe he’s on a diet.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 天前

        Trump probably hates vegetables. Probably takes out the pickles and then cries about it like a little kid when Ivanka forgets to order a burger without any vegetables. So he won’t eat those tainted onions and carrots.

    • hOrni@lemmy.world
      22·
      6 天前

      Remember, this is the guy, who tried to sell steaks under his name, because “he knows steaks”, and also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 天前

        also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup

        Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that? That’s Iike if Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and the pope thanked him while personally repainting the entire thing in an awful vomit-green color.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 天前

      Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits…

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 天前

      Oh I’m sure he’ll have a nice well-done steak with ketchup every now and then.

      (I died inside a little bit just typing that)

    • index@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 天前

      The White House has one of the best chefs and kitchens in the world,

      And that’s why they are not going to eat any fast food, they are making ads

      • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 天前

        When 45 was in office, the WH kitchen staff complained that they were very under-utilized compared to other presidents.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 天前

      Wait. Why would you think that? It’s a mildly prestigious post. Sure, it’s honorable, but it’s certainly not something that anybody with any type of creative flair would ever aspire to. It’s a labor of 24/8 type love.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
    1481·
    5 天前

    This reminds me of so many comments from Americans saying how embarrassing Biden is as a president and that no one takes 🇺🇸’Murica🦅 seriously anymore under the Democrats. It was weird to read as a foreigner because I loosely remember what Trump was like. And now here we are again. Hope Americans are proud.

      • WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        5 天前

        I wish I knew someone who was disappointed. The only two people in my life that aren’t Trumpers are my daughter and her fiance. Everyone else thinks that gas will get back to $1/gallon and food prices will return to pre Covid levels on Jan 21.

        • RinseDrizzle@midwest.socialEnglish
          21·
          5 天前

          Sheeeesh, sorry to hear you’re living deep in the red. Proud of my state for being a spot of blue in a sea of red, but hot damn that election map was bleak.

          It’s so wild how absolutely bonkers the political climate has become just in my lifetime. There was some real optimism when I got to vote for Obama as an 18 year old. Would’ve never seen all this coming…

          • leadore@lemmy.world
            8·
            5 天前

            There was some real optimism when I got to vote for Obama as an 18 year old. Would’ve never seen all this coming…

            Unfortunately, all this is pretty much a backlash to that event.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              3·
              5 天前

              Yup. We elected the black guy (twice), and people lost their fucking minds.

              Dude was a moderate, center-right, President, but none of that mattered. They spent 8 years fantasizing about lynching him.

              And now this is our retribution.

            • Aceticon@lemmy.world
              2·
              5 天前

              Here’s an alternate theory:

              Back then both parties tended to use the “slimy posh salesman” kind of deceit (half lies, misleading statements, promises left unfulfilled with twisted excuses given for it) and what happened was that Republicans, almost against their will (Trump was an outsider) stumbled upon the “strongman saying what people want to hear using straight talking language” technique of deceit.

              It was a massive success because people had been fed the same kind of posh-saleman deceit (with pretty much all the media having gone along with it and turning into de facto propaganda outlets) for decades, found the new sort of discourse refreshing and comparatively trustworthy (even though it was still bullshit, just delivered differently, because it did not sound at all like the usual bullshit it seemed trustworthier to many and all the media that had chosen sides and gone along unquestionigly with the old style of deceit wasn’t trusted anymore so all their denouncing of the “other side’s lies” was ignored)

              Whilst the Republicans did adjust to that unexpected success quickly, the Democrats did not and just kept using with their usual deceit techniques spread via the media-outlets to which lots of the electorate had built a resistance to, and acting to favour the usual people when in government.

              So here we are today with a lying populist getting power for a second time in the American Two-Party system.

          • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            5 天前

            The thing is we had Obama and dem control of the legislature and we still didn’t get universal healthcare, or even basic shit like minimum wage indexed to inflation. It’s no wonder low-information voters think democrats suck at “the economy”.

          • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 天前

            I still think musk had something to do with it and not in a strictly legal way. Would explain how he has managed to stay close to the orange for so long unchecked.

        • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
          13·
          5 天前

          I think it’s revealing that apparently as long as gas and eggs are okay, the country falling completely apart is secondary (to the voting majority).

            • vividspecter@lemm.ee
              4·
              5 天前

              The whole thing is going to look fucking stupid once EVs take off. Although I bet Trump will do everything to slow that once elected (even with Musk in his ear).

              • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                3·
                5 天前

                You know that they can just stop EVs from taking off, right? We elected an autocrat.

                They can also stop infrastructure for it from being built, and perhaps even tear down existing infrastructure. Well, aside from the ones Tesla owns of course. At least until he and Elon have their falling out

              • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 天前

                My theory is that they will institute a tax on old products so that buying new items is the same or cheaper than buying new.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          23·
          5 天前

          Time to start beating your wife, she’s actively asking for it. If she’s your ex make sure to remind her that project 2025 wants to make her existence illegal.

    • vividspecter@lemm.ee
      28·
      5 天前

      It’s always projection with conservatives.

      What is actually embarrassing is that the US elected Reagan, twice, then G.W Bush, twice, and now Donald Trump, twice.

      As the great scholar Bush once said:

      There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again

    • ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world
      26·
      5 天前

      The first time I flew out of the US after Trump became president I was so embarrassed of being American because of all the questions about his crazy ass. When I landed back in the US and saw his portrait on the wall in the airport, I stared at it perplexingly trying to understand what the fuck his stupid face was doing there….then it hit me that it’s there cause he was the president. Trump is a laughing stock and him at the helm of the US makes all Americans laughing stock for allowing this country to elect an orange makeup-caked, lying, shyster.

      So glad we get to do it again!!

    • Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world
      201·
      5 天前

      Honestly, in my social circle we’re all kinda treating it like this… strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can’t even really joke about it, still. It’s like we all know it’s gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it’s going to be. There’s a lot I’m hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that’s a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.

  • NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    169·
    6 天前

    Strap the fuck in, American people of the Fediverse. This table of lunatics is about to make your lives much harder and more dangerous.

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
    1084·
    5 天前

    Musk being best buds with the President of the USA is legit friggin’ scary, speaking as a foreigner.

    Then you remember that Trump, and it becomes terrifying.

    • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
      189·
      5 天前

      Then you remember that Trump, and it becomes terrifying.

      then I remember that trump… what? I’m also “a foreigner” (meaning I don’t live in the shithole known as the US), but that’s an incomplete sentence

        • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
          24·
          5 天前

          Nope, ‘that Trump.’ That Trump still exists, that he is president again, that he’s doing what he’s doing, or everything at once, so I just remember that Trump. To me, that’s enough.

      • everett@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 天前

        Have you ever heard someone say “I can’t even” as a complete statement? Seems like the same sentiment/vibe.

  • Brega@lemmy.world
    41·
    5 天前

    Do they a) have a McDonalds Kitchen on the plane b) eat warmed up Burgers and Frys c) eat lukewarm Burgers and Frys

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      5 天前

      I wonder if Mike had to text his son when Trump brought the hookers out immediately after this photo was taken.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        4 天前

        I wonder if Mike had to text his son when Trump brought the trafficked teens hookers out immediately after this photo was taken.

        There, I fixed it for you

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    371·
    5 天前

    In fairness to him, he looks genuinely uncomfortable just holding it for this paid publicity shot. Not enough raw bear meat in it for him.

    Boycott McDonalds, sponsors of Fascism 2025.

        • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          4 天前

          I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: you can fault McD for a lot of things. You can argue that the products aren’t to your taste, or subpar in regards to nutrition. But food safety is something that the clown takes extremely serious.

          I’ve gotten sick from burger king. Once I had to decide what I’d rather wipe off the floor, because it was coming out both ways after eating Carl’s Jr. But I’ve never been poisoned by McDonald’s, nor have I talked to someone who has either.

          Last time I went on this rant, a former McDonald’s employee commented about food safety practices. They told how if you went to the bathroom and came back multiple people would ask you if you remembered to wash your hands. Not like this specific commenter, but that was just what they did to everyone. If you came in sick, you would be sent home with pay (I believe this was in the US, so it was actually extraordinary).

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        5 天前

        He’d probably be more enthused with that given he’s one of the nutty raw milk boys.

    • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      5 天前

      what, are you saying that a douchebag isn’t allowed to be proud of his fries? I’m sorry, I thought this was America

    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 天前

      ‘McDonald’s has the biggest fries, the best fries. I helped them put the fries in the box, yes, me. McDonald’s has been with me every step of the way, even when all the wrong lesbians were being mean to me… Like, comment and vote if you want to see more of this wholesome Christian content… Elon here… Elon brought his own ketchup… It has bananas in it… I don’t know about that… Bananas in the ketchup… But he knows what he’s doing… And I trust his banana ketchup… I’m not going to eat it… The banana ketchup… But I trust him and his cars.’

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 天前

      Because daddy famously loves McDonald’s and he’s hoping that if he shows sufficient brand loyalty that eventually daddy will love him.

      The sheer amount of untreated generational trauma in this photo is astounding. I can only imagine how much less fucked up the world would be if more rich fathers could be bothered to actually raise and love their kids.