'Trump's McDonald's photo-op shows he has run out of answers on the economy' [View all]

(MS NOW) "You may have seen images of the moment when a delivery driver showed up at the door of the Oval Office with the president’s McDonald’s order and praised him for the no-tax-on-tips policy that passed as part of his budget bill last year."

"The White House clearly wanted to portray the scene as a chance encounter, as if Trump was just a regular guy waiting for his french fries — never mind the armed Secret Service agents or guarded gates this delivery driver somehow skipped through....But, as you probably suspected, the whole thing was an attempt at a PR stunt."

"The woman who showed up at the door of the Oval Office was not your average DoorDash driver — she was actually flown in from Arkansas. And prior to making that 900-mile delivery order, she appeared as a witness at Republican field hearings touting the president’s big, ugly bill. She also appeared in promotional videos put out by congressional Republicans supporting that bill."

"But even though this entire event was staged, Trump still somehow found a way to make it incredibly awkward...After the woman delivered Trump his food, he asked if she would like to 'do a little news conference' with him, during which he asked her what she thought about men playing women’s sports. The delivery driver told the president, 'I really don’t have an opinion on that'...In another bizarre moment, Trump also asked her if she voted for him, to which she replied, 'Uh, maybe.' "

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