Perspective | What it means that Trump served Big Macs in the State Dining Room

Описание: Perspective | What it means that Trump served Big Macs in the State Dining Room
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Of all the bizarre images that have come from the Trump White House, this one will endure: On Monday night, as President Trump hosted Clemson’s national champion college football team, a White House worker lit the candles of a gilded candelabrum in an elegant room, which had been laid out with a banquet. The feast came in cardboard boxes, stacked in neat piles. There was Filet-O-Fish. There were Quarter Pounders, too, and Big Macs, and — perhaps the piece de resistance — a tray of silver bowls full of single-serve tubs of dipping sauce for chicken nuggets. President Trump stood proudly before it. Everything a supporter or detractor of the Trump administration could possibly hope to see was contained within this image. It was symbolic and decadent, evocative of a baroque painting. [‘This is an emergency’: José Andrés to open relief kitchen for federal workers during shutdown] To the president’s fans, it was an example of Trump’s resourcefulness, his relatability, his rule-breaking moxie. He had ordered the McDonald’s — there was Wendy’s, Burger King and Domino’s, too — because the government shutdown had furloughed White House staff who would have otherwise prepared a meal, he said. He served the players fast food, he said earlier in the day, because he “would think that’s their favorite food.” He would think that because it’s his favorite food, too: “Great American food,” he pronounced it. “We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many french fries. All of our favorite foods.” And, according to press secretary Sarah Sanders, he had paid for the feast himself. (The Post’s Philip Bump crunched the numbers and came up with an estimated tab for the spread: $2,911.44.) There was even more for his followers to like: The juxtaposition of the White House’s elegance with the ordinary Big Macs made him seem like a man of the people. Someone who ate what regular, furloughed Americans ate — but with golden candelabras, and the wealth and success one needs to possess them. And he used the attention the food had gotten to change the topic to the reason all those Quarter Pounders were stacked up before him: They were understaffed in the White House because of the shutdown, because of the wall, because of — it was implied — the Democrats. “The Republicans are really, really sticking together. It’s great to see it because we need border security,” he said, before exiting and telling a reporter to “grab one” of the hamburgers. [‘Trump has turned the White House into a White Castle’: President roasted for serving Clemson fast food] But for those who dislike the president, the image of him and his 300 hamburgers was something altogether different. It was chintzy, boorish, brazen. It was an example of him trying to get sympathy for the shutdown when he was the one who had triggered it. It was disrespectful to the players, who had come to the White House expecting elegance and were served nothing but empty calories. “Our nutritionist must be having a fit,” one