DoorDash PR chief hammered after company accused of staging pro-Trump stunt: 'Crash out'

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/doordash-trump-pr-chief-crash/

DoorDash PR chief hammered after company accused of staging pro-Trump stunt: 'Crash out'

Alexander Willis
April 14, 2026 12:19PM ET

Julian Crowley, the head of public affairs for the online food delivery service DoorDash, made dozens of social media posts Monday after critics accused the company of staging a pro-Trump stunt with the delivery of McDonald’s food to the White House, a posting spree that MeidasTouch’s co-founder Brett Meiselas described as a “crash out.”

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“It’s kinda hilarious that he thought DoorDash could do a photoshoot with a deeply unpopular president for a stupid policy with a fake employee ‘plant’ and that nobody would notice,” they wrote in a social media post on X to their nearly 60,000 followers.

And Brendan Keefe, the chief investigator for Atlanta News First, questioned why DoorDash felt compelled to use Simmons – who lives in Arkansas – over a local delivery driver.

“They flew her in from Arkansas. By her own account, it was her first time in DC. Put her in a marked DoorDash car with no license plate,” Keefe wrote to his more than 44,000 followers on X. “It was clearly a staged photo op – and an ad for a business – but why not use a real door-dasher from the area?”

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(Were there really hamburgers in the bag?)

[AnotherMother4Peace]

1. Papa John's is now filing for bankruptcy. It took a dump after endorsing tRump. nt

[The Madcap]

5. Had some of their pizza lately.

Ugh...some of the worst I've had in a long time. It's obvious that they're having issues.

[Omnipresent]

26. I can't eat their pizza.

It’s the only pizza made that gives me acid reflux.

[MurrayDelph]

29. I'm not sure if I can

say I was boycotting Papa John's because of his politics when it's already boycotted them for having a lousy product.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

7. I've never had their pizza but

i really love that for them.

[onenote]

28. Can't find anything on line about Papa Johns declaring bankruptcy. Got a link?

[dweller]

2. Who is Simmons ?

😑



✌🏻

[GiqueCee]

10. EEEuuuw!

She looks like she bites the heads offa rattlesnakes for breakfast!

[GenThePerservering]

23. She gets a break for that

lots of people are very unphotogenic.

That does not, however, excuse her brainless participation in this.

"Thanks for throwing us peasants a few crumbs, Mr God Emperor...even though you've stripped us of medical care and I don't know how I'm going to pay for my husband's cancer treatment now."

[Conjuay]

30. Nah, just chickens.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

11. I knew something wasn't right...

... when I had seen that stunt. I have a steel trap memory when it comes to people and faces.

BTW, I totally stopped going to Chipotle a few years ago, DoorDash runners cutting in front of me, 4 at a time, in the line to order. Sounds petty but, you know...

[CrispyQ]

20. Oh crap. What did Chipotle do? I like their menu. -nt

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[not fooled]

17. Blofeld

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[MorbidButterflyTat]

22. He probably gave her

fake money with his stupid fugly face on it.

Oh, and how far is $100. gonna go to pay for "cancer treatments"? A couple aspirin?

[spooky3]

3. Local DC door dashers are primarily immigrants, that's why. Nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. Don't you love when these phoney stunts are exposed?

[RainCaster]

6. I will NEVER use Door Dash for this reason

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

12. See my #11 post in this thread...

...eom.

[tinrobot]

8. Maybe because the "real" Door-dashers in DC all hate Trump?

[GiqueCee]

9. Hard to imagine, I know...

... but everything – I mean EVERYTHING – a Republican, and Trump especially, does is performative, cheesy, and tasteless. They're human holograms, transparent and totally devoid of substance.
Prezzadint Psychopants can only think in terms of ratings. His are in the toilet, and ain't nobody fishin' 'em out.

[Marcuse]

14. Make that "two businesses".

It was clearly a staged photo op – and an ad for a business

[clevergrrrl]

15. Just like Joe the Plumber

She'll be tossed aside and under that Door Dash car. Ill bet she did nothing other than show up in a Door Dash shirt, was handed some McDonald's in a Door Dash bag and handed it to Barron Von Shitzenpantz

[Justice matters.]

25. With his gold-plated bullshit on the door (wassssh) and walls

behind, like "look at how rich I am once more" handing "generously" a $100 tax-free tip to that peasant while she doesn't earn enough to even pay any taxes and has to help her hubby she loves survive cancer...

How much more pathetic is that supposed "richest country in the world" must become to these mafia bosses!!

[hatrack]

16. It's not just that they think that there's no problem that can't be solved with marketing and photo-ops . . .

It's that their marketing and photo-ops are so fucking cringe.

[kimbutgar]

18. Never used door dash never will especially now knowing the ceo is a maga

[Grim Chieftain]

19. Boycott DoorDash

Like I needed to post that here.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. You mean after all that setup work, she didn't even agree with Trump's ad hoc question about males in women's sport?

[MLAA]

24. My guess there were burgers wrapped in $100 bills, lots of bills.

[underpants]

27. I don't live in DC but

not many of the Door dash drivers we get or whomever delivers our groceries fit the look they want at this White House. I’m just saying.

[Conjuay]

31. In what alternate reality can a DELIVERY DRIVER

walk up and knock on a door at the White House?
Even exit their vehicle without being staffed with automatic fire?