Donald Trump’s court battle over claims he inflated his property values by $2.2 billion doesn’t seem to have deflated anyone’s appetite.
A large order of McDonald’s was lugged into the Manhattan court on Monday during the lunch break in Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial.
Staff in dark suits were spotted carrying the brown paper bags into the Centre Street complex after the former president listened to prosecutors accuse him of decades of ‘lies’ over his business empire.
It’s not clear who ordered the haul of fast food, but Trump is known to enjoy an occasional meal from the Golden Arches.
His favorite meal is a Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake.
Earlier this year, he told the workers he knew the menu better than they did during a visit to a McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio.
He then gave burgers to members of the community devastated by a toxic train derailment.
One of his most famous White House events was when he gave the National Championship-winning Clemson University football team an order from his favorite fast food venue.
The court food order followed a dramatic morning session where Trump’s lawyers said he was actually worth more than amounts prosecutors claim were fraudulent.
Trump’s team also said Mar-a-Lago - which prosecutors said should be valued at as little as $18 million - is actually worth more than $ 1 billion.
In a combative defense opening statement Trump lawyer Alina Habba said: ‘There is a person out there who will buy that (Mar-A-Lago) for over $1 billion. That’s not fraud, that’s real estate.’
Earlier, Trump, 77, scowled and shook his head as prosecutors accused him of ‘lying year after year’ to exaggerate the value of his property empire by $2.2 billion to obtain favorable bank loans.
In extraordinary scenes inside New York Supreme Court the judge Arthur Engoron grinned for TV cameras as Trump sat looking sternly on, at one point muttering under his breath.
Habba told the court the amount prosecutors claimed was fraudulent was 'frankly less than what they (the Trump family) are worth’.
She said the true value of Trump’s net worth would include his personal brand from shows like The Apprentice.
‘There’s a lot of people in this room that probably don’t like that but it’s a fact,’ she said.
Habba claimed Trump’s Florida golf course Doral was also worth over $1 billion, sparking laughter in the public gallery.
She said it was ‘one of the best golf courses in the country’, and praised the Trump Organization as a ‘beautiful company’. She added: ‘Real estate is malleable but there was absolutely no intent to defraud, no conspiracy’.
The case set a ‘very dangerous precedent for all business owners in the state of New York,’ she said.
Just before entering the courtroom a combative Trump delivered an explosive tirade in which he railed against the ‘rogue’ judge and ‘racist horror show’ attorney general Letitia James, who brought the case.
Trump could face up to $250 million in fines and the potential loss of his licenses for buildings including Trump Tower in New York.
‘This is a continuation of the single greatest witch hunt of all time,’ Trump said before going into court. ‘It’s a scam. It’s a sham. There was no crime. The crime is against me.’
His favorite meal is a Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake.
Friendly reminder that when he was booked in Atlanta they listed his weight at 215lbs.
He’s 6’3", I would have assumed he was much heavier than that. He must have zero muscle mass to be that wide at that weight.
Trump’s booking record declared the former president’s height to be 6-foot-3 and his weight 215 pounds — nearly 30 pounds lighter than his disclosed weight at the time of his last official White House physical. source
Or perhaps the stress of looming inevitability is causing him to rapidly lose weight?
Yes but he could also have very little muscle mass, dude thinks working out shortens your life because you only have a finite amount of energy to spend before you die
Bill Barr is 5’9". Trump wears when 4 inch heels he’s on stage.
I’m not nearly as portly as him, I’m 5’10" 200lbs. There’s absolutely no way he’s 215
I’m watching my calories (need to drop a few pounds) and my first thought was: Do you know how many calories are in a Big Mac, Filet-of-Fish, fries, and a milkshake?!!!
Of course, I had to figure it out. Assuming a small fries and small milkshake (and let’s be honest, be probably gets the biggest ones not the smallest), it would be 1,652 calories. The average person should eat 2,200 to 3,200 calories a day. So this lunch would be Trump eating 52% to 75% of his daily calories in one meal.
That’s why homie has a dump truck of an ass
Edit - hilarious , I thought I should cite my claim, and found this jewel, I legit made my statement before finding this page
That is why trump is fat. Does anyone think he is actually in good shape?
“They got McDonald’s for lunch” is a fucking newsworthy event? FFS
“But grrr eating fast food is something I deem low class, and a therefore a former president eating it is a tragedy grr”
It is low-class and to be a good president, you do in fact have to be better than that.
Rejecting McDonald’s isn’t elitist, it’s intelligent. It’s overpriced disgusting garbage. The only way to eat it affordably is through the app which is what they use to exploit low-class people and the extreme poor – two completely separate groups. Donald Trump is not one of the extreme poor so guess which group he’s actually in (spoiler: it’s the low-class one).
People can infact like something even though it is unhealthy, how is eating McDonalds low class but not eating an expensive cake? Or fondue?
Who the fuck cares, how is this news 😂
If you read the entire article, it’s pretty clear that this is a fluff piece for Trump.
They order McDonalds to give an excuse for the story, then The Daily Mail can just repeat Trump’s propaganda. For example, they talk about how Trump served McDonalds at the WH, but not about how poorly that went over.
They say that “the prosecutor” is saying that Mar-a-Lago is worth only $18 million, but those are numbers that came from Trump’s tax filings when he was defrauding the government to pay less in taxes. Those numbers came from Trump.
They quote Trump and his lawyers over and over, but don’t bother posting quotes from people critical to Trump.
So no, this is not news. It’s propaganda.
Precisely. And this is how Trump wins. Dumb shit like this filling the news, TV, and internet every goddamned day. It’s how he beat out all the other candidates in 2016, it’s how he beat Hillary Clinton, and it’s how he’s going to win in 2024. Constant free news coverage from a fawning media that care more about ad clicks than the society we live in.
They could’ve mentioned several other food stories related to the cheeto, such as when he declared that he would buy everyone’s food in a restaurant and then promptly left without spending a dime, or the time he ate a taco bowl to try to win over hispanic voters.
The Mail continues to be a fucking rag.
This is news because one of the single biggest con men in American - perhaps world - history is trying to get away with crimes that are fully in the public record, and half of the political might of the country is willing to go along with it and shield him from repercussions because he’s a populist autocrat without whom they cannot win.
You’re making a fair point, but we have to factor in:
- This is a Daily Mail article. Daily Mail makes the New York Post look like the New York Times. You kinda need to grade on a curve.
- Despite that, the bulk of the article is about the actual case against Trump. Some editor decided on the lede, but the article as a whole isn’t sensationalist tripe about fast food.
People. People care. You’re not the only one that lives here. You would do well to understand this.
I “deadass” care that he’s making a mockery of our judicial system.
If you don’t, move on.
Nyc One of the greatest places in the world to get lunch. Every type of cuisine in the world. Chinese, japanese, italian, indian, jewish deli, He coulda gotten a pastrami sandwich from katz’s, a slice of margerita from lombardi’s The eggplant parm from parm, anything from eataly Moo shu from shun lee dynasty, the curry from brick lane, Dumplings from mr dumpling, pierogies from veselka, Sushi from nobu
But no He ordered from mcdonalds. He should be indicted for THAT.
It at the very least plays to his base, who likely have a McDonald’s in town. Where as the curry from brick Lane likely wouldn’t sit well with his followers, let alone his own digestive system.
