@OccupyDemocrats: trump throws Door Dash Grandma under the bus. I know, I'm shocked too! [View all]
BREAKING: Trump throws the McDonald's DoorDash grandma under the bus after the mocking backlash, says that the entire stunt was "tacky" and "did not happen" for real.
Everyone gets burned by the MAGA mafia boss in the end...
"Earlier this week at the White House, I met a wonderful woman named Sharon Simmons, a grandmother driving DoorDash to help support her husband's cancer treatment," Trump said at an event in Las Vegas, reading from prepared remarks. "He's got serious cancer, he going to be okay, I think. Sharon delivered McDonald's to the Oval Office."
The PR stunt in question was a pathetic attempt to flog the section of his "big, beautiful bill" that allows some workers to deduct a portion of tipped income from their taxes. It quickly went off the rails for Trump, as Simmons refused to endorse his transphobic remarks on camera.
"It was a little bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky," Trump said of the event, looking up from his notes. "You know, they come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald's, although that was the biggest ever on Google, they say. Number one ever and the, uh, garbage truck. I mean, we do these things in politics..."
"They're a little embarrassing," Trump continued. "They're a little tiny embarrassing, but we do them and you win by landslides. You know, it's one of the... So we got to keep doing— No, we got to knock on the Oval Office door. This did not happen."
"That's the first maybe in the history of the Oval Office. And it was a very beautiful woman standing there with two big bags of McDonald's hamburgers," he went on. "And I say, is this really believable? But the point of it was she made $11,000 that she had no idea was coming. And it was really great. It turned out to be really great."
By admitting that the entire thing was staged, Trump has exposed Simmons as a willing political pawn of his fascist agenda. Not only that, but his admission that it was tacky makes her look tacky and buffoonish by extension.
More interesting than Trump's admission that the event was totally fake is what that admission reveals about his political beliefs. Trump thinks that his voters are stupid, gullible, and easily manipulated by the most transparent, bargain bin, low IQ messaging. He has nothing but disdain for this kind of political theater, but he knows that it plays well with the rubes who make up his base.
As for Trump's desperate new push to highlight the "no tax on tips" segment of his historically disastrous bill, it simply will not be enough to salvage his electoral prospects. Americans know that the real goal of the bill was to gut the social safety net, including roughly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid. The midterms are coming and with them, a massive blue wave!
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