It’s far from the most important aspect in all this deeply corrupt mess, but the way in which Trump supercharges all the negative stereotypes about America and Americans across the rest of the world is… well, it’s yet another form of self-sabotage for this country. What a farce.
As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.
According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
May 13, 2025 17:10Professor, maybe he will pick up a shift there, at the minimum wage of, let’s say $20 million USD a minute?
“The Saudi King welcomed the American President with unlimited hamburgers” is the kind of thing that historians 500 years from now will characterize as “almost certainly apocryphal” and “likely written by contemporary anti-US forces perpetuating insulting stereotypes”
“It seems unlikely that at such a momentously historic time that a foreign leader would be swayed by free hamburgers,” says historian Chxyytlz Zvvnbdz of Alpha Centauri
It’s so deeply embarrassing. The Saudis absolutely know how this looks to the rest of the world and they also know the president absolutely doesn’t.
