President Trump’s extravagant, $3,000, 300-sandwich celebration of Clemson University

The Washington Post ^ | January 15, 2019 | Philip Bump

[Trump20162020]

Trump says they bought "1,000 burgers" for Clemson. "It was piled up a mile high," he said.

FACT CHECK: At two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.

[RinaseaofDs]

Only 300 sandwiches? This isn’t a soccer team POTUS!

[COBOL2Java]

Burgergate.

What did Trump know about burgers and when did he know it?

"Big Macs have Russian Dressing on them! I want a full investigation! Spare no expense!"

[COBOL2Java]

I think the Washington Compost has mile high fever of a profane kind. They need to stay out of airplanes and come home to bed with their wives.

I'm sure Philip Bump comes home every evening to the Little Mister.

[Yardstick]

My point about the satire tag was that it shows FR has an acknowledged tendency not to get the joke. It happens enough that JimRob had to start putting satire training wheels on some threads.

My comment where I said “it’s possible” was tongue in cheek! Sort of like saying “it’s possible the sun rises in the east”.

Also, I think another poster responded to my comment and agreed it was satire. The reason there weren’t more of us is probably that 1) it’s nearly futile to prove a joke to those who don’t want to get it, and 2) no one wants to rile up a crowd yelling at a joke they don’t get.

My deeper point is that when you’re ungenerous with people and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt — even people you don’t like — you wind up missing their meaning and possibly doing them an injustice. That whole thing with Rep. King is fresh on my mind. The NYT was completely unfair and ungenerous in interpreting what he said. Giving him even the tiniest iota of the benefit of the doubt makes it clear what he meant — but they *wanted* to see/portray him as a racist and so they did.

Obviously this thing with Bump isn’t on that scale, but if you grant that maybe, just maybe, a leftist is capable of humor, then it’s pretty clear his piece was tongue in cheek and actually somewhat enjoyable in its wit. Personally I just about can’t stand Philip Bump but I am willing to give him that.

[NorthMountain]

I’m currently wearing steel-toe boots. I’d like to introduce Mr. Philip Bump, and his “fact checkers”, to my steel-toe boots

[Clutch Martin]

Did a restore run with a friend of mine who needed my truck. Afterwards he said “I’ll take you to lunch” and so we went to probably one of the better places around where we were, which just so happened to be at Golden Corral. I’m not a big Golden Corral guy this one is actually very clean and well staffed and I had a steak burger with cheese, fried mushrooms peppers and onions, a couple strips of bacon mustard and a pickle on a Kaiser. You know what? It was great. And the tater tots were actually done right. I had ketchup on the tater tots.

[9YearLurker]

There’s not a human in America who would have taken that phrase literally!

[blueunicorn6]

This sounded really good until you wrote that you ate the Kaiser.

I try not to be too old fashioned about dining, but digging up an old German leader to munch on him seemed a bit much.

Then I remembered that it’s also a bun.