Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mcdonalds-doordash-white-house-b2956815.html
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 274 pts · 137d
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 · 63 pts · 137d
well, under normal circumstances... but wtf is even happening there anymore?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 33 pts · 137d
right, all bets are off. Perhaps they're feeling overconfident from their warmongering, you know, buffed up, thus getting sloppy
homes@piefed.world · 30 pts · 137d
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 pts · 137d
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 pts · 137d
I'd totally take that job.
good luck!
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 137d
Good luck!
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 136d
Befriend good customers and start (keep?) selling grey market on the side, only way to get paid as a weed barista
mbp@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 136d
Good fuckin luck!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Here's my thing.....if Polymarket is just being used to pay bets that are obvious scams, eventually (read: real fuckin quick) Polymarket would shut that shit down. The mob don't let cheaters into their casinos and win big every week. They break the guys thumbs, kneecaps, or maybe just off the guy.
So it makes me think that Polymarket isn't so much a legit betting rig, as it is a money washing service probably set up by trumps people. They pump the money into Polymarket behind the scenes, win big every week, and Polymarket funnels the money right back into their accounts. With a traceable paper trail to them free and clear from the IRS.
I have no proof of this. It just doesn't pass the smell test. Then again, trump in person probably smells awful too.
homes@piefed.world · 10 pts · 137d
It’s really not that simple
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/11/polymarket-gamblers-betting-iran-war-ukraine-news-truth
Polymarket is an unregulated insider trading platform, primarily profiting from insider bets surrounding the Iran war originating from the unprecedentedly corrupt White House
Any attempt to defend it would inextricably link you to the unquestionably criminal corruption of the White House.
Do you have anything to say?
On the record?
CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
What I don't get is where does all the money they win come from? Somebody has to take the bets and lose right? Seems like an awful lot of money to just be fleecing random rubes.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
It's bribes / pay to play. People lose as a way to funnel funds without traceability.
protist@retrofed.com · 51 pts · 137d
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 · 52 pts · 137d
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 pts · 136d
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 pts · 136d
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 pts · 137d
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 pts · 136d
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.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
It'll be good enough for his base, who is willing to believe anything to rationalize his behavior.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 136d
That's what it is. It doesn't have to be a plausible story, just a story, something they can repeat with confidence, and just scream "TDR!" at anyone who tries to mock them.
redlemace@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 137d
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 actinginability to act and non existing sense of humor nor reality, Yet still he could not help himself .....hemmes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 137d
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.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 136d
how long has it been since he was Weekend at Bernies’ed?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 46 pts · 136d
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 136d
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 · 17 pts · 136d
looks at bill ... why_ is your face on this $100 bill?
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 136d
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 · 40 pts · 137d
Full text of Melania Trump statement denying links to Epstein
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 pts · 137d
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 pts · 137d
Not that I really doubt it, but where is this documentation about her being a whore?
homes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 137d
the Epstein files.
"whore" is, admittedly, and overstatement. "slutty" would have been a more appropriate word.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 137d
Wasn't she semi-nude in some of the pics already released? That would make her a sex worker, maybe? She probably was trafficked at a young age. She seems like she probably was a sex worker at the very least. Whore seems harsh for anyone.
Mihies@programming.dev · 7 pts · 136d
She was officially a model, so semi nude might still fit her work. Even full nude might be just art or legit money income 🤷
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 34 pts · 136d
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 pts · 136d
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 pts · 136d
no AI could make the crazy bullshit up. it's too insane to be fake
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 136d
only possible utilizing GOP mind virus
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 136d
homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 136d
don't forget "Masturbating to Netflix while overdosing on antidepressants and weed"
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 136d
Why? Did they ban porn sites in your state?
vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 136d
i'm pretty sure our president hates weed. true ultrapatriot hardline conservatives despise it because it opens up your mind or, in their view, makes you lazy
also it's impossible to overdose on it lol
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 136d
Fr why they actually hate it. Pleasure without consequences.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
Overdoses dont have to be deadly. You can definitely overdose on weed. Source: I have done it many times.
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 136d
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
homes@piefed.world · 21 pts · 137d
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 pts · 137d
Even their propaganda is stupid...
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 137d
It’d be hilarious if he weren’t president.
Great satire.
The problem is, it’s not satire and he is president.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 136d
worst fake prez ever
homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 137d
I think part of the brilliance of it is that it still gets a lot of traction because of how absurd and entertaining it is
Jhex@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
I don't think it's entertaining at all bud.
This guy is literally responsible for the direct slaughter of thousands.
homes@piefed.world · 7 pts · 137d
The President of the United States is a monster
null@lemmy.org · 18 pts · 137d
There is a non-zero chance Trump has a sponsorship deal with McDonald's.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 136d
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.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 136d
I wish they'd come out and denounce him. You just know he'd have a tantrum and swear off McDonalds forever. But it would deprive him of something he truly enjoys in life, which he deserves, because he's a cunt.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 136d
Running around so much, I used to get a McChicken as a snack once every other week. But since that shamelessly staged video of him serving fries to 3 people I haven't been back.
I know I'm not hurting the billion dollar corporation, but I'll sooner go a little hungry then give them a dime.
1D10@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d
Probably not, if he did he would definitely talk about, and just like most other companies they don't mind him saying good things but do not want any real ties.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 136d
This is just absolutely too much cringe for me. I had to just skim it and navigate away, but I appreciate the notification.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 136d
You guys get Lemmy notifications?
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 136d
Via email
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 136d
This feels questionable that a delivery person would ever have such direct contact with a president.
More ai news slop
TheOgreChef@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 136d
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 pts · 136d
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.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 11 pts · 136d
Great opportunity for a fresh Luigi Mangione, just sayin.
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 136d
IIRC, I saw somewhere that this was an entirely staged event and the Doordash driver was flown in from Arkansas.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 9 pts · 137d
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 pts · 137d
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.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 136d
Yea, of course
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 136d
Well, I’m glad you get it, but a shockingly large amount of others don’t
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 136d
I just didn't want to compare Trump to anybody even remotely nice, it's just... the absurdity of it all... it could have been a comedy is what I'm saying. In another timeline
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 136d
in another timeline, they'd have set it on fire and run away screaming
there's nothing funny about any of this
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 136d
I'm not following, set what on fire ?
Almacca@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 136d
"I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue."
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 136d
I watched it yesterday night after posting this comment 😂 Some of the jokes aged like milk but overall it was coooool. Especially while high
quack@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 137d
Does anyone actually buy this kind of thing? Like I know his base is irredeemably stupid, but still.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
Our dementia grandfather is running the country.
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 137d
I already have to take medications, plus a weed prescription for an anxiety disorder. I don't need you reminding me of that bullshit.
I'm here aren't I?
Oy gayvalt
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 137d
He's just marketing to the lowest form of sucker.
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 137d
and he'd be lucky to get even that at this point
Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 136d
Only because it's such a massive demographic, and the only one that will buy his bullshit. It's been working magnificently for him.
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 137d
Fixed that for you. 😝
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 136d
She's a retiree who's working to pay for her husband's cancer treatment.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 136d
Wait this actually happened.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-doordash-mcdonalds-tax-tips-iran-pope-cdec935afd68b86b264ed1b0de772e1d
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 136d
The DOJ closed the Epstein files so we could focus on pressing issues this.
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 136d
yeah, it sure did!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Real missed opportunity there, Doordash driver.
hitstun@feddit.online · 3 pts · 137d
Indeed, she could've been a national hero.
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 137d
I dunno. they really work for tips, and Trump seems like a real cunt. In their place, I'd do my best to just avoid their ire.
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
If I were flippin that day, I be spittin that day.
homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 137d
no idea what that means, but I'm willing to learn!
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
If I cooked his burger, I’d spit in it. Might even swap that pee for an h.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
Hey. Question.
What would it take to get him an all -he-he-can-eat subscription to more burgers and fires?
Don’t look at me like that. Cholesterol is a bitch and I don’t think we can get blamed for that.
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 137d
ah, got it. :P
Blackout@fedia.io · 5 pts · 137d
Lol he's probably hurting McDonald's business. Like a shit Midas
baronvonj@piefed.social · 5 pts · 137d
Mierdas.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
I've been boycotting them since 2024 when he did that stupid drive thru stunt and McDs corporate was silent about it.
I don't miss it. It's barely classified as food anyway, not to mention getting more expensive... Bye Felicia
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 136d
https://youtu.be/Pl0FD29-mIs
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 136d
lol, it's not treason if the government is fascist :)
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
I'll bet the driver was asking to get his trade strategy set
CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Blander_Rurton@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 136d
I'm not one to defend this orange man baby, however there is no way this image can be real. I don't even think it's AI, looks like good old fashioned photoshop.
GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 136d
There is a video. Its a PR OP from Trump. Its just staged.
Blander_Rurton@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 136d
Interesting. Guess him ordering doordash is supposed to distract us from the fact he is a pedophile somehow?
jj4211@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 136d
It was a stunt to try to remind people that he pushed for no taxes on tips, which was a part of both his and Harris' platforms.
Since inflation is again going up and particularly gas prices are up and he has nearly zero good news, he has to try to milk his tip tax policy as much as he can.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 136d
Naw, It's real, It was set up by a PR agency with a real photographer.
This is propaganda.
Furbag@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d
It's real, but 1000% staged. No way secret service would have let an unvetted Doordash driver approach the front door of the White House, let alone meet the President in person. It's a publicity stunt.
Despite this, some people still believe it's an organic moment, as if any Doordash driver would be comfortable just standing there as a political prop for two hours instead of running more deliveries.