staff requirements for serving Trump diet coke... 7 steps illustrated with 4 photos

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/02/19/trump-hotel-employees-tell-all-what-it-was-really-like-serving-right-wing-elite/

Donald Trump needed his Diet Coke opened in front of his eyes and had to hear the pop of the new ketchup bottle being unsealed reveal his hotel staff as they lift the lid on life serving the MAGA elite

Trump's requirements, as outlined by the magazine:

As soon as Trump was seated, the server was to 'discreetly present' a mini bottle of Purell hand sanitizer - even pre-COVID. Trump is a known germaphobe.

Then, the server had to say: 'Good (time of day) Mr. President. Would you like your Diet Coke with or without ice?'

The details on pouring the soda were seven steps long and illustrated with four photos.

The diet coke had to be opened in front of Trump and 'never beforehand.'

The server was to hold a longneck-bottle opener by the lower third of the handle in one hand and the Diet Coke, also by the lower third, in the other.

The drink was to be placed at Trump's right-hand side: 'Repeat until POTUS departs.'

Trump always had the same thing to eat: shrimp cocktail, well-done steak, and fries (plus sometimes apple pie or chocolate cake for dessert).

Popovers - a double serving - had to be served within two minutes and the crustaceans 'immediately.'

The server had to open mini glass bottles of Heinz ketchup in front of Trump, taking care to ensure he could hear the seal make the 'pop' sound.

Additionally, a tray of junk food needed to be available for every Trump visit.

It was to contain: Lay's potato chips (specifically, sour cream and onion), Milky Way, Snickers, Nature Valley Granola Bars, Tic Tacs, gummy bears, Chips Ahoy, Oreos, Nutter Butters, Tootsie Rolls, chocolate-covered raisins, and Pop-Secret.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9279757/Donald-Trump-needed-Diet-Coke-opened-DC-hotel-staff-reveal-expose.html

[COL Mustard]

1. Keep Eatin' That Way, Don

We'll get a day off for your funeral sooner rather than later.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Oh boy! He's going to LOVE it in prison. nt

[SCantiGOP]

33. Hope they put him in with Qanon Shaman

and make him eat organic food. He might get down to the weight he always claimed if all he got was kale and chickpeas.

[Laelth]

3. Yuck! n/t

-Laelth

[tanyev]

4. Here's hoping he gets to experience the staff serving procedures in a jail facility.

[underpants]

5. Riddle me this - who would you deal with that you might worry about being poisoned?

Germaphobe yes but these “opening in front of me” bits are because he’s worried about being poisoned.

That’s why he does random stops at McDonalds and some KFC’s. Standard health regulations (he likes regulations) and no way anyone could anticipate which one he’ll stop at. He left an aid at a McD’s because the aid made a special order and Trump couldn’t wait any longer.

[Hugin]

47. Yep, poison.

Not germaphobia.

[nclib]

6. How is he still alive?

No vegetables or fruits at all?

[Jerry2144]

28. Didn't W's

Didn't W's Dept of Ag rule KEtchup is a vegetable for school lunches?

[SeattleVet]

30. No - that was early in that S.O.B. Reagan's first abysmal term.

[Celerity]

31. Ketchup as a vegetable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, reduced the Federal School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs budget by approximately eight percent. Building upon these reductions, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 (passed as the Gramm-Latta Budget) made further spending cuts to the Federal School Lunch Program decreasing its fiscal year 1982 budget by 25 percent. To administer the requirements made by both Omnibus Reconciliation Acts of 1980 and 1981, the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) was tasked with proposing ways to implement the regulations while maintaining nutritional requirements for school lunches despite the lower funding. Among the recommendations made by the Food and Nutrition Service's September 3, 1981 Regulations was a proposal to give local school lunch administrators flexibility in accrediting substitute food items that met FNS nutritional requirements and regulations. The report stated an item could not be counted as a bread that was not enriched or whole-grain, "but could credit a condiment such as pickle relish as a vegetable."

While ketchup was not specifically mentioned as a potential substitute, critics demonstrated outrage in Congress and in the media against the Ronald Reagan administration for cutting school lunch budgets and allowing ketchup and other condiments to count as vegetables. According to New York Times reporter Benjamin Weinraub, "the opposition had a Dickensian field day of outrage and mockery that contrasted school children's shrinking meal subsidies with the Pentagon generals' groaning board of budget increases."

[Hassler]

7. What a pompous jackass. And a junk food addict too.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. I still don't buy the germaphobe thing.

Both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal said he didn't wear a condom.

[underpants]

15. He's scared of being poisoned

I went through it in post #5. Self importance? Yes. Russians? Da.

[North Shore Chicago]

51. A thimble

would have worked.

[mwooldri]

9. And to think that President Biden...

... is more likely to go to the darned fridge and grab his own drink...

I prefer people who aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty and doing stuff themselves.

[smirkymonkey]

10. What a vulgar, gluttonous pig!

He is so disgusting in every way. I can't believe he has been eating like that his entire life and he still isn't dead yet. I am beginning to believe he really has made some kind of bargain with the devil.

And who treats people like that? It's like Trump and his entourage get off on watching other people grovel before them because they know their livlihoods are at stake and they can get away with it. Republicans are the worst. At least the Trump kids were relatively polite compared to the rest of them, to their credit.

Also, I am just curious as to what Melania has against garnishes? A bit of parsley and chives? What could be so offensive about that? Was she forced to graze in a meadow as a child? It's so bizarre. They are such freaks.

[drmeow]

16. The way people treat wait staff tells you a lot about them

I use it as a bit of a tell when getting friendly with new people. I remember going out to happy hour with a group from work once and one of the guys came in late with his wife - and proceeded to be a demanding prick to the waitress. He got crossed off my "get to know better" list immediately.

[smirkymonkey]

18. That is the acid test for determining a person's character.

When people treat service people like dirt, I immediately want nothing to do with them anymore. It turns my stomach and I won't put up with it.

Or if they treat anyone who can't "advance" them as if they were "less than", it tells me who they are. It's strange, but I find that as I cut people like that out of my life, I encounter such types less and less. I just want nothing to do with people like that. And I no longer care what they can do for me. It's not worth it. I used to be afraid to offend them. Not anymore.

[Blue_true]

26. Yes.

How people treat service workers or people that they hold power over is one of the gold standard indicators of their composite character.

[relayerbob]

27. 100% true

[wnylib]

39. I hated going out to dinner with my in laws.

FIL always complained to the waitress - every single time - about something. He also made a game out of stringing out requests so she would have to go back and forth several times. Then he'd grin at us and say that she needed to earn her.tip.

[drmeow]

40. Ugh - and let me guess

he'd never tip more than 15% (or even 10%).

[wnylib]

41. 10%, calculated down to the penny.

[drmeow]

42. Pre-tax nt

[wnylib]

43. He was a very self-important jerk.

[underpants]

11. Excellent article In the Washingtonian

Really in-depth.

[trueblue2007]

12. no wonder he is a FAT pg

[Generic Brad]

19. How is he not fatter?

I meticulously watch what I eat, yet if I so much as look at something delicious I seem to add five pounds. There is no way I could eat the things he does and still be walking.

[spooky3]

36. Ditto Nt

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Such class.

Something else you can’t buy or ever know about, Dumpy.

[Goonch]

14. ;-{)

[drmeow]

17. Atlas comment

“That NEVER happened,” Atlas tells Washingtonian in an email. “I literally ALWAYS wore a mask there, 100 percent of the time unless I was seated at a table to eat or drink. That is yet another outrageous lie fabricated only to impugn me. Does the media ever get tired of lying?? You must really be desperate for a story, might be more interesting saying they have good food—please add this.”

The [man] doth protest too much, methinks

[Warpy]

20. Sounds like he has the palate of a ten year old

which means his palate was considerably more developed than his mind.

[Blue_true]

21. I am glad that nonsense is over. The servers must be over the moon now that he

is gone.

[paulkienitz]

22. a lot of those rules seem to be anti-poisoning steps... rumor has it he's paranoid of poison

[cwydro]

48. So many adjectives to describe this scum, but you have to use a gendered slur?

[MineralMan]

49. Hmm...offensive on several levels.

[edhopper]

50. I agree, it does describe him

he really can only feel big if he makes those around him small.

[Mr. Evil]

24. Good god almighty!

Remind me again why I hate pretentious, self-absorbed assholes.

[monkeyman1]

25. airforce 1 alot lighter now day's. below load limits of fat ass !!!

[BigmanPigman]

29. I recall Anthony Bourdain commenting on tRump's diet.

The well done steak was too much for Bourdain and he went off on his philistine behavior.

[LuckyCharms]

32. Imagine his rules for receiving a handjob. n/t

[jb5150]

38. I'm guessing step 1 is ...

Ivanka has to wash her hands?

[3catwoman3]

34. I would scrub toilets before I would...

...have anything to do with Trump for any reason.

[DeeDeeNY]

35. An important rule when ice cream was served

He had to get 2 scoops while all guests would get only one scoop.

[Demovictory9]

44. story at link says they keep special supply of extra big shrimp just for trump

[Joinfortmill]

37. Won't get this in the Big House.

[Captain Zero]

45. Nutter Butters has a whole nother meaning there.

nt

[Blue Owl]

46. I'd like to smash that goddamned bottle over his fucking bloated, ugly head

Repeatedly

[GusBob]

52. Yet he regularly ate McD and KFC?

How did the germaphobe know that shit was sanitary?

Also there easiest way to get the pig sick: contaminated ice