We're gonna build a fence. It will be a big fence. It will be YUUUGE!
And we're gonna get the cows to pay for it!
Posted on 03/09/2016 7:59:10 AM PST by justlittleoleme
Donald Trump’s meat was the topic of social media chatter on Tuesday after his overwhelming victory in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries.
During a press conference held at his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., the GOP front-runner spent time touting what he said were his his name-brand line of Trump Steaks. The billionaire started the gourmet steak line in 2007 and sold it through Sharper Image.
But as some observers pointed out on Twitter, the filets Trump was serving up at the event came wrapped in packaging from a company not affiliated with the his business empire.
“Trump steaks. Where are the steaks? Do we have steak? We have Trump Steaks,” Trump said during a 30-minute victory speech given to a crowd made up largely of members of his golf club and the press.
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Close-up photos of the steaks, however, show that they were wrapped in plastic bearing a non-Trump logo. The meat appeared to come from a West Palm Beach meat company called, ironically, Bush Brothers Provisional Company.
Sharper Image still features Trump Steaks on its online catalogue but notes that the meat line has been discontinued.
“Like Mr. Trump himself, ‘Trump Steaks’ were in a league of their own — USDA Prime Certified Angus Beef, flash frozen and shipped in a deluxe ‘presentation box,'” the Sharper Image entry reads, noting that “Unfortunately, Trump Steaks are no longer available, but their legacy endures.”
The Trump campaign did not return a request for comment about the meat mix-up. An Associated Press reporter on the ground in Jupiter wrote on Twitter that a campaign aide said that the steaks were from the Trump line. A photo from that reporter shows what appears to be Bush Brothers wrapping.
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You know, it just doesn’t matter anymore what people are talking about....how stupid of an article, really people, get real...
He did this to throw this back in Romney’s face and I’m dang glad he did, it’s been so long since we have had someone with a back bone to stand up for the American People and all you people and the press can do is whine...’
Well to dang bad, it’s life, go on, get over it, go hide under your rock!!!
Trump is about to win that Trump U issue.
A person who is their “star” is a chronic liar and political fraud.
ROFL ROFL
Surely anyone with a brain knows that Trump knew those labels were on the steaks when he put them out there. So why did he do it?
Because it gets the conversation going all over again. He wins on the bigger point e.g. that he’s a successful businessman who has been smeared, and for those who demand an explanation about the steak labels, he once again will have a chance to tell the entire story in front of the prime-time cameras yet again. If he’s slapped on a “Trump Steaks” label that would have been the end of it...but now, it’s just another piece of clever stagecraft.
He comes from the “ee cummings” school of spelling and punctuation.
CC
That's it. I'm out.
Kasich 2016!
As I posted above, here for a change of pace is a classic example of dry American humor, that Edgar Allan Poe loved, written by Virginia General Longstreet's uncle in the 1830s: The Debating Society.
The idea of course, then and now (180 years later), is to have a laugh at those who take themselves more seriously than their intelligence warrants.
A really great stroke.
If this is a nonissue, not a big deal, picky...minutia even, then WHY did Trump bring out these products?
Two reasons:
1. He’s petty.
2. He knows his supporters will gladly suck up his lies.
The steaks were at a Trump event, paid for by Trump money, I would assume, in Trump's possession. Therefore, they were Trump steaks. Idiots in the media be damned.
I’ll support either Trump or Cruz as the nominee. I’m just laughing at the idiocy on this thread and many others in recent weeks.
Demonstrating, ONCE AGAIN, that TRUMP IS A FRAUD AND A CON ARTIST.
If you miss a joke, do not impugn the wit who made it.
Understand dry American humor. It has played an useful role, keeping our spirits up throughout our history.
Would Trump have left the labels on these steaks, if he intended what you suggest? Let's face it, the joke is on you, if you failed to get it.
That's alright. The whole point of dry humor is to broaden the mental play.
I stayed up all night wondering if Trump steaks were real...
Where do they get people who circulate this crap?
The ADA reject rumor college?
Is that part of Acorn? or the Clinton Criminal Enterprises, Inc?
That’s funny :-)
-JT
You might be happier if you learned to understand humor. It can really pick you up, when you need a pick up.
Trump relieves the stress of the campaign by having a bit of innocent fun. Of does the label on a steak have political significance in your world?
Loosen up. Would it bother you, if Mark Twain, for an analogy had been elected President?
Ok they want to debate steaks.
How about spending as much time on Hillys bogus use of the word “ classified” by citing Judge Napolitanos clear explanation that they term does exist.
If you want proof of it see his video, and then watch Lanny Davis get all tied up when Bill Hemmer confronts him with it.
Hillary is using the Clintonesque “ depends on what is / is defense” and the MSM, including Bret Baier on the town hall lets her get away with it.
Good to see Hemmer pick up the challenge the next day with Davis.
I’d love to try some Trump meat. According to Marla Maples, he’s the best sex she ever had.
"I could stand in the middle of a press conference and lie through my teeth,
and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's like incredible."
--Lying Don
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