Friday, June 16, 2023

Can you say "Cheeto doing Cheeto-ish things"?

From Vanity Fair -

Surprise: Trump Reportedly Stiffed a Restaurant Full of His Supporters He’d Promised to Buy Lunch


Donald Trump has long been known for two things: lying all the time and being extremely cheap. (And being really weird about dogs. And making wildly bizarre claims, like that Abraham Lincoln had it easy compared to him. But right now we’re focussing on the lies and the cheapness.) Anyway, these two traits converged on Tuesday in an event that, in retrospect, we all should have all seen coming.

After pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts brought by the Justice Department, the ex-president stopped by the Miami restaurant Versailles, where patrons prayed for him and sang “Happy Birthday” one day early. It was there that the former president declared, “Food for everyone!”

Most people would take this declaration to mean Trump was saying he was going to buy food for everyone in the restaurant. But according to the Miami New Times, that was not the case:

New Times wondered, did Trump—who famously fancies his chicken from KFC and his steaks well-done and slathered with ketchup but isn’t exactly known for picking up the check—treat his fan club to a spread of croquetas, pastelitos, and cubanos chased with cafecitos? It turns out no one got anything. Not even a cafecito to-go. A knowledgeable source assures New Times that Donald Trump’s stop at Versailles totaled about ten minutes, leaving no time for anyone to eat anything, much less place an order.


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