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Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by homes@piefed.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 264 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Person wearing door dash grandma shirt.... Supposedly drives up to the white house door, and Trump supposedly answerers..

Talk about a load of faked propaganda. There is like 500+staff members at the White House. And no way would the secret service let the president take packages from a random person without screening everything.

[–] homes@piefed.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

well, under normal circumstances... but wtf is even happening there anymore?

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

right, all bets are off. Perhaps they're feeling overconfident from their warmongering, you know, buffed up, thus getting sloppy

[–] homes@piefed.world 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

well, due to Polymarket, all bets are ON... but only the privileged few know enough to make those bets.

otherwise.... enjoy the rollercoaster!

For enjoyment (not suicide) I recommend 2-3g of 20%+ cannabis and your favorite bourbon!
that's how I'm making it through my Monday!

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I just had an interview at a dispensary. I hope I get the job, not only for cheaper weed, but also cause I need a fuckin job.

[–] homes@piefed.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I'd totally take that job.

good luck!

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[–] protist@retrofed.com 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

She stated during the event she was there for a reason. Trump asked her for her opinion on trans folks in sports, and she said "I have no opinion on that. I'm here about taxes on tips." She was deadpan with it too

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, this fuck invited her to the White House to thank him on live tv for the big beautiful bill removing the requirement to be taxed on tips because she drives DoorDash to pay for her husbands cancer treatment and he fucking snubbed her to talk about himself for 30 minutes and then she invited her and her husband to the UFC fight he’s holding at the whitehouse.

What a disaster for this poor woman and for this country. Our own personal Nero.

[–] 123@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, as I read the grandma door dasher shirt, I don't think they understand how that's nothing to be proud of. The nation has failed those people that should be enjoying retirement instead of gig work for the elite class as modern slaves until they drop. Didn't even know about the husband which makes it so much more tone deaf.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's even worst than you could imagine. She has a history with being used by trump

https://www.resetera.com/threads/turns-out-%E2%80%9Cdoordash-grandma%E2%80%9D-sharon-simmons-is-a-big-trump-supporter-used-as-a-gop-prop-before.1490290/

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 21 points 3 weeks ago

If it was that easy to get to trump, I assume someone would have door-dash'd him something lethal already.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It was supposed to be a PR stunt about No Taxes on Tips, that's why the press was all hanging around to take pictures when the Door Dasher showed up.

Then Trump comes out and the press asks him about his blasphemous Easter post, and he offered his outlandish excuse that he was supposed to be a doctor, completely blowing his PR stunt.

He probably didn't even tip her, he's a proven scumbag cheapskate. Just the pleasure of serving him is tip enough.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Doordash walking up to the oval office and trump taking delivery in person........ Very plausible /s

We see straight through this due to his ~~bad acting~~ inability to act and non existing sense of humor nor reality, Yet still he could not help himself .....

Trump quipped to Simmons sarcastically: “This doesn’t look staged.”

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

What’s extra crazy is that when he asked her if she was a supporter, it wasn’t a resounding yes, she said “mmm…maybe”, lol

Like they can’t even fucking get someone to act like they like him anymore.

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[+] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Read the article the whole fucking thing waa stage and mostly likely wasn't a real dasher. Says he tip her $100 I wonder if it was also fake? She surely looked at that bill as if it was.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

looks at bill ... why_ is your face on this $100 bill?

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Just the conversations had orchestrating this. The bravado on how good of an idea it would be to stage the president getting mcds fucking gig delivered is peak. Peak what I don't know. Maybe if they were driving a cyber truck. I need to speak with the person that doesn't see right through this. They need slapped with a fish.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Full text of Melania Trump statement denying links to Epstein

I have never had any knowledge of Epstein’s abuse of his victims. I was never involved in any capacity—I was not a participant, was never on Epstein’s plane, and never visited his private island.

I have never been legally accused or convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein’s sex trafficking, abuse of minors, and other repulsive behavior.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/09/melania-trump-epstein-statement-transcript-white-house/89538207007/

https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/first-lady-melania-trump-makes-statement-on-jeffrey-epstein/677083

[–] homes@piefed.world 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

For context:

Decades of photographic and testimonial evidence repudiate every word of her statement other that the technical fact that she has never been convicted of any crimes related to Jeffery Epstein... yet...

There are decades of videographer, photographic, textual, and testimonial evidence that she absolutely and without a doubt both know and was very close with Jeffrey Epstein _ for many, many years) before AND after meeting and marrying Trump. This is - and has long been established - in not only the Trump-Epstein Files, but in many other outside documentation.

Melania was a widely-circulated whore for almost a decade before even being introduced to Trump. Just Trump's type. And it's been widely documented.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Not that I really doubt it, but where is this documentation about her being a whore?

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No way fucking way. I first saw the photograph of the Door Dasher and Lumpty Trumpty. My first reaction was "This must be AI slop."

Then it turns out to be true!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Not slop, but definitely staged. How many old white ladies are delivering your door dash orders, especially while wearing a shirt that says Door dash on it?

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

no AI could make the crazy bullshit up. it's too insane to be fake

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[–] homes@piefed.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I couldn't make this up even if I were tripping. like, 90s, 3 hits of acid, lost in Prospect Park tripping

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Even their propaganda is stupid...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’d be hilarious if he weren’t president.

Great satire.

The problem is, it’s not satire and he is president.

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[–] null@lemmy.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There is a non-zero chance Trump has a sponsorship deal with McDonald's.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

IMO McDonald's essentially endorsed him in 2024 when they remained silent on that stupid stunt he did at one of the franchises in Pennsylvania.

I'm sure there's gotta be some deals going on.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is just absolutely too much cringe for me. I had to just skim it and navigate away, but I appreciate the notification.

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 11 points 3 weeks ago

Great opportunity for a fresh Luigi Mangione, just sayin.

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

IIRC, I saw somewhere that this was an entirely staged event and the Doordash driver was flown in from Arkansas.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This feels questionable that a delivery person would ever have such direct contact with a president.

More ai news slop

[–] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was a stunt so he could tout his tax-free tips bullshit. They roped in an old grandma and somehow thought showing her having to work to pay off her husband's medical debt in her elder years wasn’t dystopian as fuck.

But hey, $100 tip. Orphan-crushing machine for the win!

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago

I think they summed up the USA pretty nicely in this photo op: the average person has to work a precarious job until they're dead to serve the needs of rich fucks destroying the world.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

There's been such a string of madness coming the us in... the last two days, it had to be topped with something right out of a movie with Lloyd Bridges

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Lloyd Bridges had talent while being genuinely funny and entertaining.

Trump is insane, whose incompetence at destroying the world is only - occasionally - entertaining but I never thought that the world might end because Lloyd Bridges sniffed some glue and fell out of a window.

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