Oh FFS. South Korea served Trump brownies "decorated with the color of gold that President Trump favors"

[Miles Archer]

I get "diplomacy," but...

'Do you have a kids' menu?' Trump ridiculed for 'embarrassing' food choices on Asia trip

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-asia-trip/

The president's culinary preferences – fast food, well-done steaks and spaghetti – are well known, and his Asian hosts attempted to strike a balance between regional specialties and his Americanized tastes, according to the New York Times.

"The lunch he shared with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea and business leaders on Wednesday was summed up by Mr. Lee’s office as 'fusion Korean cuisine featuring regional specialties from across the nation and tailored to President Trump’s preferences,'" the Times reported.

"The White House picked up on the gesture, calling the Thousand Island dressing, tossed with South Korean shrimps, scallops and abalone, 'a nod to Trump’s New York roots,'" the report added. "It appeared to be his preferred dressing. He also had the condiment, which hails from near the border between New York and Ontario, the night before in Tokyo at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence."

The South Koreans also served braised short ribs made with U.S. beef, along with kimchi and other traditional sides, but also served beef patties with ketchup and brownies decorated with what Lee's office described as "the color of gold that President Trump favors.”

[lame54]

1. They gave him a gold crown and...

He gave them what they asked for

Foreign countries have his number

[GusBob]

2. I heard he claims to crap solid gold bricks

And is surrounded by sycophants with crap eating , salad tossing grins

[SARose]

3. Well, his Mama never told him what mine told me!

You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit!

Or better yet

Eat it - there are children starving in (pick a country)

Yeah - she was old school.

😂

[Miles Archer]

6. Yeah. For me it was "Starving kids in Korea."

But one thing is absolutely certain. Complaints regarding the menu were never encouraged nor welcome.

[GusBob]

13. The country I pick is America

NT

[Celerity]

4. the actual food

[Miles Archer]

8. Egads, he must have been FURIOUS about the PORTION SIZES.

I read the reference to "fusion" in the article and those pictures match what I envisioned.

"Fusion" has never been synonymous with "Super Size Me."

[Vinca]

18. Wonder how long it took the Big Mac order to arrive afterward?

[Solly Mack]

5. I get countries are doing what they feel they need to do to placate the corpse flower but I can't help but think

less of them for doing so.

Same goes for people and institutions that bend the knee.

I know my opinion of them matters not at all.

Still...

[Miles Archer]

9. I've heard accounts of Arab countries serving him steaks charred beyond recognition

Like I said, I do understand diplomacy.

And the brownie topped with the gold he favors is where it went from that to something else.

[Solly Mack]

12. I wonder how long before he wears the crown in public.

[Torchlight]

10. I sit copilot on that sentiment

And hold true: even if our opinion doesn’t change their actions, your perspective reflects a strong sense of principle... and that still matters.

[Solly Mack]

11. Thank you for that.

[GoCubsGo]

16. They're not doing it to placate him.

They're doing it because they know that the easiest way to manipulate him is to flatter him. Suck up to him. Make him happy. He'll give you whatever you want.

[Torchlight]

7. Gilding the little man's diapers to make him better feel like a king

His mental acuity is as lacking as is his disdain for the hungry and poor.

[leftstreet]

14. Rich people used to die from eating gold

[Celerity]

19. Crassus met a bad end via the Parthians

[GoCubsGo]

15. They know that they can manipulate him through flattery.

All he cares about is being flattered, and he's too stupid and addled to understand that they're about to manipulate him.

[Miles Archer]

17. Hugh Hefner

Unrelated, but sort of related...

...Hefner was asked, I believe in the 70s, maybe the 80s..."Do you realize that the reason most of these women want to be with you is because of your money?"

Hefner, without missing a beat: "Who CARES?"

I don't think Trump thinks past the point of BEING flattered, because he's ADDICTED to it. There can never be "balance" in his life without regularly refreshed helpings of unconditional fealty and worship.

[3catwoman3]

20. I fail to see the appeal of eating gold.

[tanyev]

21. Of course Thousand Island is his favorite dressing.

Pour enough of a sweet mixture of ketchup, mayo and sweet relish on a salad and you can hardly see or taste that nasty iceberg lettuce.

What a child.