A Racist Feast

The picture is mesmerizing: the President of the United States of America standing in front of tables full of the worst kind of fast food from every poisoner in America, hands outstretched like he was treating the Clemson football team to the finest fare in the land.

The reason for this fast food fete, according to the White House, was that the chefs there had been furloughed in the Trump Shutdown, so Trump and his advisers came up with the fast food idea.

Wait a minute. Washington, D.C., like other national capitals, is chockablock with fine restaurants – many of whom cater – as well as high end caterers by the score. Were they all closed that snowy day and only McDonald's et all open for this White House tradition?

No. They were mostly open and ready. But somebody – noted racist Stephen Miller probably – came up with the idea to feed the Clemson champs fast food. Good gimmick, the thinking went, we'll get a lot of ink.

How about this? Most of the Clemson footballers are African Americans and despite Trump's “Look at my African American” gush at a speech, he and the Stephen Millers on his staff know that all African American eat fast food morning noon and night, washed down  with gallons of orange soda. So, yeah, fast food for the football team. They'll love it and feel right at home. 

Then how come some of the gridders were caught griping that McDonald's isn't banquet food? Didn't Trump and company know that at a football program like Clemson's, every aspect of an athlete's health is paramount and they are fed carefully healthful menus morning noon and night?

It is doubtful they thought of that, but if they had it wouldn't have mattered. “Give them some fast food for a treat then. It's what they came up on,” would have been the idiot reply. Once even a subliminally racist trope makes it to the White House it quickly becomes truth and is acted upon. So roll out the Big Macs.

Did you ever notice that many of the men and woman Trump refers to as “low IQ” are African Americans? I think “low IQ” is Trump Talk for “uppity.” 

The entire United States House of Representatives – minus one – voted to strip Steven King of his committee memberships after his latest racist tirade in the New York Times. And the one guy who voted against it was because he didn't think it was punishment enough. 

Yet there's Trump giving King the okay, just as he gave the racist rioters in Charlotte the okay and the okay to that racist pedophile clown in Georgia. Racist hate flows in Donald Trump's veins and sloshes out through his mouth on any occasion when he can either blow his racist dog whistle or out and out give racists the okay. He is the Grand Wizard of the White House.

But he did pay out of his own pocket for all that delicious fast food, all those cold fries and greasy burgers and wilted salads. All he needed was Ronald's clown costume.