Nothing like being the national champions in college football, and being served McDonald’s at the White House.
But this the Trump era, and fast food is king.
President Trump says he nearly fed hungry Clemson football players salads but decided to purchase them fast food, instead, for a White House event celebrating their national title.
Trump paid for the food smorgasbord his White House served to the Clemson Tigers when the 2018 College Football Playoff champions visited the White House tonight rather than push the event that the partial government shutdown complicated.
“We ordered American fast food. Paid for by me. Lots of hamburgers, lots of pizza, I think they’d like it better than anything we could give,” Trump told reporters.
“We have some very large people that like eating, so I think we’re gonna have a little fun.”
Trump said in remarks to the team that he had ‘1,000 hamburgers’ delivered for the East Room event, where chicken nuggets and pizza were also served, after telling reporters that he’d had 300 burgers delivered an hour prior.
“I had a choice: do we have no food for you, because we have a shutdown, or do we give you some little quick salads that the first lady will make along with the second lady, they’ll make some salads,” Trump said. “And I said, you guys aren’t into salads.”
He opted for Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and other fast-food.
“We have everything that I like, that you like,” he told players. “And I know no matter what we did, there’s nothing that you could have that’s better than that.”
“I wanted to see, so it was piled up a mile high, I just wanted to see what was left. I saw it at the beginning. How much he is left back there? How much?” he asked.
‘None,’ a woman in the audience informed him.
Trump later teased in his remarks that the players ‘wiped out more food than any human has ever seen before’ after revealing that he first considered having his wife Melania ‘along with the second lady make some salads’ for the youth.
Assistant Athletic Director for Football Communications Ross Taylor said that two-thirds of the team attended this year and that none boycotted that he is aware of.
Some missing players had tests and others were seniors who have moved on to the NFL.
Also attending the event were the two GOP Sens from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott.