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DonViejo

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Tue Jan 15, 2019, 02:25 PM Jan 2019

Trump spent about $3,000 on Clemson fast food spread: analysis [View all]

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/15/19 09:44 AM EST

The White House spent roughly $2,900 on food from various fast food chains around the Washington, D.C., metro area on Monday to host Clemson University's championship football team, according to an analysis from The Washington Post.

The Post, which looked at photographs of the event that showed multiple angles of the massive spread of hamburgers, pizzas, chicken nuggets and french fries from various fast food chains, including Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's, estimated the total cost to be $2,911.44. Half of that money was spent at McDonald's alone, the Post reports, though it notes that the cost drops, to $2,437.11

A request for comment from The Hill to the White House regarding the total price was not immediately returned Tuesday morning.

Some of the costs in the Post's analysis were educated guesses, due to the unique setup of the dinner, which included McDonald's and Wendy's fries being removed from their containers and placed in White House dishes.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425376-trump-spent-about-3000-on-clemson-fast-food-spread-analysis

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Pocket change. He should have hired a catering company. redstatebluegirl Jan 2019 #1
he owns a catering company two blocks away. nt Grasswire2 Jan 2019 #9
Well those Black athletes were not worth that to him. redstatebluegirl Jan 2019 #10
I'm surprised Trump didn't play the theme from "The Jeffersons" gratuitous Jan 2019 #12
If he actually paid, and has a receipt, I wonder if he will write it off his taxes? Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #2
You bet he will. That's probably why he inflated the number of burgers. subterranean Jan 2019 #14
That's counting the coupons & customer reward points? Cirque du So-What Jan 2019 #3
Doesn't the Post have better things to do? SharonClark Jan 2019 #4
They can/do multi task. irisblue Jan 2019 #11
Trump didn't spend a dime. Dimes to donuts says the money will come out of his reelection campaign Brother Buzz Jan 2019 #5
The headline should read... lame54 Jan 2019 #6
you nearly owed me a keyboard niyad Jan 2019 #8
I will only believe (not sure even then) that the tangerine tyrant paid out of his own pocket, when niyad Jan 2019 #7
I remember being in line at a White Castile's at about midnight one time, world wide wally Jan 2019 #13
Could have provided a pretty nice sit-down dinner for the team for that price, Totally Tunsie Jan 2019 #15
Ain't that the truth cannabis_flower Jan 2019 #16
He could at least have ordered the burgers from Five Guys. hedda_foil Jan 2019 #17
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