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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
(5,900 posts)We'll get a day off for your funeral sooner rather than later.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)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
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
tanyev
(42,564 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)Germaphobe yes but these opening in front of me bits are because hes worried about being poisoned.
Thats why he does random stops at McDonalds and some KFCs. Standard health regulations (he likes regulations) and no way anyone could anticipate which one hell stop at. He left an aid at a McDs because the aid made a special order and Trump couldnt wait any longer.
Hugin
(33,162 posts)Not germaphobia.
nclib
(1,013 posts)No vegetables or fruits at all?
Jerry2144
(2,102 posts)Didn't W's Dept of Ag rule KEtchup is a vegetable for school lunches?
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Celerity
(43,408 posts)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
(3,379 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal said he didn't wear a condom.
underpants
(182,826 posts)I went through it in post #5. Self importance? Yes. Russians? Da.
North Shore Chicago
(3,316 posts)would have worked.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)... 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
(63,221 posts)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
(5,019 posts)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
(63,221 posts)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
(31,261 posts)How people treat service workers or people that they hold power over is one of the gold standard indicators of their composite character.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)wnylib
(21,484 posts)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
(5,019 posts)he'd never tip more than 15% (or even 10%).
wnylib
(21,484 posts)wnylib
(21,484 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)Really in-depth.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)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
(34,457 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)Something else you cant buy or ever know about, Dumpy.
Goonch
(3,608 posts)drmeow
(5,019 posts)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 foodplease add this.
The [man] doth protest too much, methinks
Warpy
(111,270 posts)which means his palate was considerably more developed than his mind.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)is gone.
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)
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cwydro
(51,308 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)edhopper
(33,584 posts)he really can only feel big if he makes those around him small.
Mr. Evil
(2,845 posts)Remind me again why I hate pretentious, self-absorbed assholes.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)The well done steak was too much for Bourdain and he went off on his philistine behavior.
LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)jb5150
(1,178 posts)Ivanka has to wash her hands?
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...have anything to do with Trump for any reason.
DeeDeeNY
(3,355 posts)He had to get 2 scoops while all guests would get only one scoop.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,428 posts)Captain Zero
(6,806 posts)nt
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)Repeatedly
GusBob
(7,286 posts)How did the germaphobe know that shit was sanitary?
Also there easiest way to get the pig sick: contaminated ice