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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

If I just won a national championship and was invited to the White House, I wouldn't think, "I hope this is a casual affair."

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well you probably never accomplished anything but most people, especially athletes who have had to be on a strict diet all season would rather party and just joke amongst themselves

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

So you think Trump saying, "there's a partial government shutdown, so we can't give you a fancy catered dinner full of the fanciest food you're ever likely to eat in your life because it is literally made for the world's royalty, but instead I've dug deep into my rich man pockets and spent $3000 on some room temperature Big Macs and Chick-Fil-A" is something that would appeal to them? Yeah, I guess you're right. I mean it's not like you'd want to be treated like a king after winning a national championship. Much better to have to travel to DC at the team's expense and have the president buy them the worst possible burger he could have bought them.

But sure, it's because I've never accomplished anything that I wouldn't understand why someone would be honored to eat a Big Mac paid for out of Trump's generous pockets when he could have had lobster flown in fresh from Maine. Or, I don't know, catered well-made burgers from a good burger place. I'm guessing D.C. has one or two local places that might just possibly taste a little better than what they've got at McDonald's.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago

Much better would be drinking all night and not going at all

how did you get “honoured to eat a burger” from “not as big a deal as people make it”

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's not even that it's a burger. It's that he put it on display as a banquet, talked about how he paid for it personally, and he acted like they should be honored to eat the burger.

And, again, maybe it's because I've "never accomplished anything" that I would hope that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would spring for more than a cold Big Mac after inviting me to the WHITE HOUSE.

I'd do what I could to offer those guys more than a cold Big Mac if I invited them to my house and I'm by no means someone who brags about his fabulous wealth.

I think they deserved to be treated better regardless of you think what they would have wanted because of all of your amazing accomplishments. I'm sorry, but your Nobel Prize doesn't mean they aren't entitled to be treated with at least the modicum of dignity as a visiting head of state.

I mean at the absolute very least keep them warm instead of taking them all out for a photo op where they'll get cold! Is that making too big a deal out of it? Saying they were entitled to a warm Big Mac when visiting the President of the United States at the White House who brags to you about paying for it with his own money?

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago

I thought by now you would have deleted this since it illustrates how people blow it way out of proportion

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, expecting someone to get warm food when they get invited to the White House is an embarrassing position and I don't know why I haven't deleted it yet. Maybe it's my lack of accomplishments.

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