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In the State Dining Room, we'll be serving bear urine and hamberders.
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What it means that Trump served Big Macs in the State Dining Room
(Chris Kleponis/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX)
By Maura Judkis
Reporter
January 15, 2019
Of all the bizarre images that have come from the Trump White House, this one will endure: On Monday night, as President Trump hosted Clemson’s national champion college football team, a White House worker lit the candles of a gilded candelabrum in an elegant room, which had been laid out with a banquet. The feast came in cardboard boxes, stacked in neat piles. There was Filet-O-Fish. There were Quarter Pounders, too, and Big Macs, and — perhaps the piece de resistance — a tray of silver bowls full of single-serve tubs of dipping sauce for chicken nuggets. President Trump stood proudly before it.
Everything a supporter or detractor of the Trump administration could possibly hope to see was contained within this image. It was symbolic and decadent, evocative of a baroque painting.
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By Maura Judkis
Maura Judkis is a features reporter for The Washington Post. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner. She joined The Post in 2011. Twitter https://twitter.com/MauraJudkis
What it means that Trump served Big Macs in the State Dining Room
(Chris Kleponis/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX)
By Maura Judkis
Reporter
January 15, 2019
Of all the bizarre images that have come from the Trump White House, this one will endure: On Monday night, as President Trump hosted Clemson’s national champion college football team, a White House worker lit the candles of a gilded candelabrum in an elegant room, which had been laid out with a banquet. The feast came in cardboard boxes, stacked in neat piles. There was Filet-O-Fish. There were Quarter Pounders, too, and Big Macs, and — perhaps the piece de resistance — a tray of silver bowls full of single-serve tubs of dipping sauce for chicken nuggets. President Trump stood proudly before it.
Everything a supporter or detractor of the Trump administration could possibly hope to see was contained within this image. It was symbolic and decadent, evocative of a baroque painting.
{snip}
By Maura Judkis
Maura Judkis is a features reporter for The Washington Post. She is a two-time James Beard Award winner. She joined The Post in 2011. Twitter https://twitter.com/MauraJudkis