America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues

The White House has one of the best chefs and kitchens in the world, and this dumbass will be ordering McD's and KFC for 4 years.
- I hope so. Less cost to the taxpayer, and the high calorie and sodium count will send Trump to an early grave.
  
  The taxpayer doesn't pay for his meals, actually. Came as a surprise to the Obamas they said once.
  2014 link: https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/nov/28/obama-bill-white-house-thanksgiving
  Didn't look to hard for the Obama quote, but Nancy Reagan's reaction is in that one.
  
  Oh the McD orders will be on top of everything. The kitchen will just throw away a lot more food.
  
  Do you want President Vance? This is how you get President Vance.
  
  There is a cockroach effect for some people when it comes to medical matters, like cancer gets them instead of the other way around.
  
  I'm not sure Vance is any better.
  Not sure he's any worse either. Ugh.
- This was the exact sentiment that crossed my mind. The amount of money these dipshits have available and they're eating that crap? I don't even believe it. This HAD to be a photo op to make the idiots believe "Wow they eat what I eat" before they rolled in the burnt steak with ketchup and whatever else they actually prefer.
  
  Nah it’s probably legit. Trump is famous for eating like trash. His usual order is reported to be two Big Macs and a Filet-o-fish, but I only see one Big Mac on his tray so maybe he’s on a diet.
  
  Trump actually loves McDonald's and eats it all the time.
- Hopefully the ecoli gets them all.
  
  Trump probably hates vegetables. Probably takes out the pickles and then cries about it like a little kid when Ivanka forgets to order a burger without any vegetables. So he won’t eat those tainted onions and carrots.
- Remember, this is the guy, who tried to sell steaks under his name, because "he knows steaks", and also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup.
  
  also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup
  Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that? That's Iike if Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and the pope thanked him while personally repainting the entire thing in an awful vomit-green color.
- Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits...
- Oh I'm sure he'll have a nice well-done steak with ketchup every now and then.
  (I died inside a little bit just typing that)
- The White House has one of the best chefs and kitchens in the world,
  And that's why they are not going to eat any fast food, they are making ads
  
  When 45 was in office, the WH kitchen staff complained that they were very under-utilized compared to other presidents.
- Wait. Why would you think that? It’s a mildly prestigious post. Sure, it’s honorable, but it’s certainly not something that anybody with any type of creative flair would ever aspire to. It’s a labor of 24/8 type love.
  
  Because I know that Andre Rush is a passionate chef. He's well-known. Look him up!

- Hate to say it, but the US isn’t the only country that is fucked. The impact is going to be felt worldwide and in a harsh way.
  We’ll see how long places like Ukraine and Taiwan will last.
  Ugh, the more I think about it the more I realize how bad it’s going to be.
  
  There could be (rare) upsides. If they go through with 50% or higher tarrifs, electronics prices in EU might come down due to dumping.
  
  Yeah, climate change is global.
  
  We’ll see how long places like Ukraine and Taiwan will last.
  Last before what?

This reminds me of so many comments from Americans saying how embarrassing Biden is as a president and that no one takes 🇺🇸'Murica🦅 seriously anymore under the Democrats. It was weird to read as a foreigner because I loosely remember what Trump was like. And now here we are again. Hope Americans are proud.
- Nahhh... we're pretty fucking disappointed... Least everyone I know with half a brain.
  
  I wish I knew someone who was disappointed. The only two people in my life that aren't Trumpers are my daughter and her fiance. Everyone else thinks that gas will get back to $1/gallon and food prices will return to pre Covid levels on Jan 21.
- It's always projection with conservatives.
  What is actually embarrassing is that the US elected Reagan, twice, then G.W Bush, twice, and now Donald Trump, twice.
  As the great scholar Bush once said:
  There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again
  
  Prophetic.
  
  Fool me one time, shame on you
  Fool me twice, can't put the blame on you
  Fool me three times, fuck the peace sign
  Load the chopper, let it rain on you
- The first time I flew out of the US after Trump became president I was so embarrassed of being American because of all the questions about his crazy ass. When I landed back in the US and saw his portrait on the wall in the airport, I stared at it perplexingly trying to understand what the fuck his stupid face was doing there….then it hit me that it’s there cause he was the president. Trump is a laughing stock and him at the helm of the US makes all Americans laughing stock for allowing this country to elect an orange makeup-caked, lying, shyster.
  So glad we get to do it again!!
- Honestly, in my social circle we're all kinda treating it like this... strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can't even really joke about it, still. It's like we all know it's gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it's going to be. There's a lot I'm hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that's a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.
- Those were probably fake accounts
- They are fucking wild honestly.

Musk being best buds with the President of the USA is legit friggin' scary, speaking as a foreigner.
Then you remember that Trump, and it becomes terrifying.
- Then you remember that Trump, and it becomes terrifying.
  then I remember that trump... what? I'm also "a foreigner" (meaning I don't live in the shithole known as the US), but that's an incomplete sentence
  
  Probably meant that's, or at least I read it that way
  
  Have you ever heard someone say "I can't even" as a complete statement? Seems like the same sentiment/vibe.

I hope they all have strokes.
- Given the average age (and diet), there's hope yet
- Are those quarter pounders? Listeria is on the table...
  
  make escherichia coli great again
- Where is Yagami-Light when we need him?
- Trump will be dead in a year and you guys will have president Vance to care for you 😆

Never has more divorce been captured in a single photograph
- I wonder if Mike had to text his son when Trump brought the hookers out immediately after this photo was taken.
  
  I wonder if Mike had to text his son when Trump brought the trafficked teens ~~hookers~~ out immediately after this photo was taken.
  There, I fixed it for you

- what, are you saying that a douchebag isn't allowed to be proud of his fries? I'm sorry, I thought this was America
- You gotta emphasize how normal and approachable you are. A true one of the people
  
  McDonald's is normal.
  Eating it sitting facing each other on a private jet is not normal.
- Got to show off the sponsors, it is in the contract.
  
  Brought to you by Carl's Junior
  
  HAH! That got me 👍
- Come on! Let the kiddo feel proud!!!111
- 'McDonald's has the biggest fries, the best fries. I helped them put the fries in the box, yes, me. McDonald's has been with me every step of the way, even when all the wrong lesbians were being mean to me... Like, comment and vote if you want to see more of this wholesome Christian content... Elon here... Elon brought his own ketchup... It has bananas in it... I don't know about that... Bananas in the ketchup... But he knows what he's doing... And I trust his banana ketchup... I'm not going to eat it... The banana ketchup... But I trust him and his cars.'
- Because daddy famously loves McDonald's and he's hoping that if he shows sufficient brand loyalty that eventually daddy will love him.
  The sheer amount of untreated generational trauma in this photo is astounding. I can only imagine how much less fucked up the world would be if more rich fathers could be bothered to actually raise and love their kids.
- Almost certainly because he knows it’ll “trigger the libs” and he’s a massive cunt.

Imagine having $300 billion and 12 kids and this is how you choose to spend the limited time you have.
- this is how you choose to spend the limited time you have
  My guess is that these guys saw someone like Bernie coming down the line at some point, a populist left wing politician who would have basically ended the billionaires free-for-all in america, and they said 'well we gotta take over the entire government to stop this', and people fell for it.
  
  Pretty much, I hope that by doing so they've escalated the end of Corporate America...
- You think his children would want to hang out with him?
  
  They want to hang for sure. Maybe him.

Not a single sauce opened, no bites taken, nothing removed from an annoying tray lip and placed on the table like a real person. No sign whatsoever that they are actually eating this junk. The half eaten fries are staged as eating without the ketchup that is right there on the tray is quite unlikely.
This is a staged ad. It is meant to be a message to others in corporate America, and for marketing to convenient idiots to quote the Russian term.
- It’ both. The before eating pics are always more PR friendly. Trump loves McDonald’s because he has no taste
  
  Apparently he eats so much McDonald's because he's paranoid about being poisoned and thinks sending someone there to get his food anonymously makes him more safe somehow. It makes you wonder where that paranoia came from once you also learn that this was first reported seven years ago.
  
  Apparently like Warren buffet he will eat it.
  Not sure about the rest of them
- There's no way these people are eating "peasants" food. This looks more like an ad
- Kennedy spoke openly the other day that the food they eat on the plane is absolute crap that is either big macs or KFC. So this could be a staged photo, but also it would mean another member of the photo was bitching about it being real and is lying.
- Yeah, I honesty call bullshit on a 78 year old constantly eating McDonald’s.

Fun fact: RFK jr plans to ban most of the ingredients of the junk food he is currently eating
- “The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” he said on [a] podcast, in an episode that aired Tuesday. “Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You have a choice between—you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”
  -- RFK Jr. a few days ago
  Edit: to be fair, his expression in this picture does make him look more than a little disgusted
  
  Oh my god for a second there I almost felt empathy for him. The feeling passed quickly though.
- That’s because most places don’t serve raw milk… yet.
  
  Isn't there a huge outbreak of salmonella or something because the maga sheep all dutifully followed RFKs raw milk nonsense?
- So he’s proposing banning seed oils and similar?
  
  Yes he is, he wants to ban high fructose corn syrup and a lot of other things too

Republicans: We want to get rid of the elite in power.
Republicans:

Do they a) have a McDonalds Kitchen on the plane b) eat warmed up Burgers and Frys c) eat lukewarm Burgers and Frys
- it could be all of the above
- Trump loves McDonald's. Remember the time he served it at the Whitehouse for some event?

Nightmare blunt rotation
- Kennedy is not looking forward to the cabinet mushroom trip.
  
  Kennedy did a shit ton of acid when he was young. I assume mushrooms as well. He would be the happiest of all of them to trip at the White House.
- I mean, at least there’s a bunch of fries available.

i'm comforted by the fact that everyone in this picture despises everyone else in this picture. the thought that trump probably hates elmo because of his giant hands makes me happy
- He's totally hiding his tiny hands under the table. What's he hiding under there? Very rude to not keep your hands visible while eating.
  
  I love that the genesis of that was an article calling him a "short fingered vulgarian" aka a common thief but he was too uneducated to realize that and instead thought they were making fun of his small hands. He would send the author pictures of himself with his hands circled in gold sharpie trying to prove that his hands were actually of normal size. The internet then picked up the small hands thing and ran with it.

- Who's the red dress? Don't recognize her?
  
  As far as I can tell, this is a character from The Handmaid's Tale series.
  Based on a respective book, it tells about a dystopian society in which women are put to serve as nothing but baby machines, against their will.
  
  It's from The Handmaid's Tale. Great TV show based on an amazing book that is all too relevant.
  If you haven't read or seen it, you should. Like right now. Before January 20th at least. Margaret Atwood made sure that everything that happens in the story is something that has happened (to women) at some point in history. Because she knew there would be men saying that it's sensationalist, and would never happen... turns out all of it has happened.
  Beware: it is harrowing. Very very very bad stuff. But sometimes it's necessary to not turn away from these horrifying things. Especially when they're happening again.
  It's like the authors of Project 2025 read it and used it as an instruction manual, rather than a warning.
- I knew Grimace wasn't too be trusted.

Reality is too much

In fairness to him, he looks genuinely uncomfortable just holding it for this paid publicity shot. Not enough raw bear meat in it for him.
Boycott McDonalds, sponsors of Fascism 2025.
- Yeah if RFK jr wasnt such a shitheel id feel bad for him, but he is infact a shitheel so I have only one want for him, suffering and pain.
- I boycott McDonalds because of the salmonella.
  
  I've never gotten food poisoning from them but lately it's been the prices
  
  He'd probably be more enthused with that given he's one of the nutty raw milk boys.

Wow can you imagine the inane conversations that happen sitting at a table with these assholes? That literallly sounds like torture.
It’s like Fiona Apple said about sitting in a private theater doing coke with Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson was a catalyst to never do coke again, this would be a catalyst to never breathing or living on this earth again.
- The conversations would be insane because I bet ever single one of them would be a one upper.
  RFK Jr would probably tell some story about cutting the head off a Bald Eagle then Elon would chime in about the time his personal Tesla flew to Mars with a Bald Eagle inside it, that's what was in the suit.
  Trump would try and say it was actually not a Bald Eagles in the Tesla but it was him and the Air Force launched a second rocket top secret rocket to pick him up, it was the biggest rocket.
  And lastly Don Jr or Eric which even kid that is would start to tell a story and Trump would interrupt him and talk over him telling a story about the time he sexually assaulted some random women but since he has zero self awareness he would frame it as a good time.
  
  Ugh, that sounds so fucking insufferable.
- I bet Elon and Trump are fighting to get the attention.

Has the same vibes as homelander forcing the deep to eat the octopus.
- what does that mean? who is the crappy hamburger in this comparison lol

Saving this picture, in case I ever eat something poisonous i can use it to throw up immediately.

Welcome to Walmart. I love you.
- I gave you an upvote because it is on point. I want to down vote you because I don't want to live on that planet and its looking more and more like we will be that planet.

Are they celebrating bring your kid to work day?
- Elon disowned his daughter so it's probably not bring your daughter to work day

A real meeting of the mindless.
- Elon's far from mindless. He's just a self-serving prick who would burn a country down to increase his stan- oh wait.
  Yeah. Fuck.
  He's potentially the most dangerous person at that table. He doesn't want power in the limelight - though he uses the limelight when he needs to, yes - he wants power behind the scenes. And he's very good at getting what he wants. That much should be unambiguously clear.
  And if gaining that power means helping a fascist fucking prick fuck gain dictatorial powers, well I don't think he'd think twice.
  
  Agreed that he's not mindless, but he's a far cry from "genius". He's just a lucky dipshit narcissist.
  
  IDK, I think Trump is still the most dangerous. He's the most unhinged, and the Supreme Court recently ruled that he can't be punished for any of the actions he takes as president. That combination makes him scarier than the others IMO.

Don, Jr.: My dad put these fries in the box himself! hurr durr

The man whose brain worm died of starvation.

Wow, I can say with confidence that this is the first time I've ever wished for a plane to crash. Just one patriotic pilot is all it would take.
I really don't like that these shitstains make me feel such vitriol...
- first time I’ve ever wished for a plane to crash.
  He'll go out the same way Joffery went out
  
  To thunderous applause?

Such a low IQ photo.
- wouldn't be hard to be happy for them if they weren't such terribly, terribly shitty human beings. ugh

Literally the most 'MURICA! photo ever. 🤣
- Except for the illegal from Africa
  (No one is illegal. Your family crossed hundreds of borders without papers. Borders aren’t helping me. Especially if Musks are in the United States and 2Pac’s mom is not.)
  
  Even that is incredibly "murica" - he's white and a rich guy from a rich family hence he's not getting the same treatment for overstaying his visa a non-rich non-white African.
  Racism and profound wealth discrimination are as American as it gets.
- Not enough guns and flags

I wanted to buy a Cybertruck (don't judge me, my kid loves it). We also love McDonald's.
I no longer want anything Tesla or even want to eat at McDonald's anymore.
- Your kids love it because it looks like something they could have drawn themselves.
  
  He told me that he loves it because it's unique and since he is also different from everyone else. That is why he loves it. Can't argue with that.
- Why would you want to buy a vehicle just because your kid likes it?
  
  My life revolves around my kid. So ya. If it makes him happy to be in a car he loves and it fits the families needs, then why wouldn't I?
  
  If he has to get a vehicle why not one his kid likes? What vehicle choice criteria do you find acceptable?

If there was ever a nicer place to hit with a hellfire missile...

What a proud moment for the USA

It's been so odd seeing Trump cabinet picks come in because it feels like he is just picking conservative celebrities, rather then actual politicians. Like it's still kinda crazy that fucking Elon Musk is gonna be in government.
- It's looking more and more like this term will be "Celebrity Apprentice: Washington".
  Which, as sad as that is, is still preferable to the alternative where he has a small inner circle of actually smart far right strategists, who he trusts completely and follows their recommendations to the last detail.
  I don't know that it holds true across the board, but for Trump at least, it appears that in the right wing you get smarts or charisma/a following...but not both.
  Trump is a flashy moron who appeals to the GOP base, which is comprised largely of morons. They need a moron at the top of the ticket to speak the language of their base, but in the process they're stuck with a moron at the top when they win.
  They'll still do damage, no doubt, but I feel like the biggest check on Trump's power is that he's too stupid to wield it to maximum effect.
  
  Are there many smart far right men that trump isn't angry with?

what ever happened to jd vance? rarely see that guy these days
- JD Vance is busy preparing for the implementation of Project 2025 while this clown car is busy pWnInG tHe LiBz.
  
  Yep, awaiting orders from his owner, Peter Thiel.
- What with the couch fucking joke? I don’t get it
- In this case, it’s literally illegal for him to be on the same airplane for very good reasons.

McDonald’s Unhappy Meal

Wonder if the hamburders are cold.
- One can hope. Those asshats don't deserve the comfort of warm meals.
- last i ordered mcd 3 years ago it was cold straight out the drive through. i would expect these to be room temp, not like it would harm the sawdust taste

Not shown: perfectly normal JD Vance humping the backrest from behind Trump while violently stuffing his face with a cold cheeseburger.

Air Force One is going to smell like fries forever now.
- Fries, ketchup, makeup, and butt.
  
  "why is there an adult size diaper-change station?"

Junior is posing with an empty box of fries like he never learned how to pose to capture a memory, only to sell a product.

Caravan of Fools comes to mind…
The dark and distant drumming
\ The pounding of the hooves
\ The silence of everything that moves
\ Late at night you'll see them
\ Decked out in shiny jewels
\ The coming of the caravan of fools
\
\ Like the wings of a dove
\ The waiter's white glove
\ Seems to shimmer by the light of the pool
\ Some dull, blinding winter
\ When you can't help but lose
\ You're running with the caravan of fools
\
\ Love and devotion, deep as any ocean
\ Don't play by anybody's rules
\ With your carousel of horses
\ And your unforeseen forces
\ You're running with the caravan of fools
\
\ Caravan of fools, caravan of fools
\ You're running with the caravan of fools
John Prine

Why are they doing an ad for mcdonalds?
- Left wingers should boycott McDonald's just for fun because it's Trump's favourite thing apparently. It would be interesting to see.
  
  As opposed to my current boycott because the food is terrible?
  
  McDonalds is already on the BDS list for giving free food to the IOF. Which isn't difficult because it's garbage food at the price of real food.
- To remind us of the food poisoning incident.
- Kickbacks.
- GOYA BEEEEAAANN

hahaha. Jesus what fuckin losers man. I mean they may fucking re-educate me with a bullet between my eyes but at least I'll be laughing at them as they do.

Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a family gathering with Mike Johnson smiling proudly over the family 'kids table'?
Like, exact same vibes as a bunch of random kids all shuffled away to a single kid's table, and then the one adult (and boy is that stretching the definition) watching over them, and all of them trying to smile for the picture some random auntie none of them have met before is taking.

They're just trolling at this point ..... lol .... this is what America wanted
Get ready for the ride.

What's with this guy and McDonald's? He even brought it on a plane?
- He's afraid of someone poisoning him.
  I'm not joking. He probably should be too, he makes enemies of everyone he's ever come in contact with.
  Including the people in this photo. He will use them until he has no more need for them, and then he will throw them under the bus, or ditch them, or now use one of the many arms of the federal government that will be at his whim to bury them.
  That's what he does, he uses people and then disposes of them. The ones he can't get rid of completely become his enemy.
  Unfortunately, now, he will have means to get rid of them completely in various creative ways. Because that's what autocrats do. Look out for people like Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, et. al. to start disappearing or dying mysteriously.
  If there was a "Deep State," now would be the time to step up and do something to protect the Republic... Could you imagine if they manage to take him out with poisoned McDs? lol
  
  Why doesn't he fear someone tempering with his MickyD's?

I’m sure RFK is really going to eat that.
- He has to or else it gets the hose
- The man eats road kill. What do you expect

They all look so happy, like kids having a birthday party in a giant ball pit.

Sniveling Johnson trying to fit into the picture like "hey I'm here too! Don't worry boss I'll have the house ready to do your bidding. We don't represent anyone but you!"

- I was wondering if it was Ai.

USA didn't vote for a female president for the first time but at least you now have a male first lady for the first time.

You know, that would be Epstein's plane if he was alive.

Maybe they'll forget to take their cholesterol meds with all the childlike excitement they seem to be having about eating McDs.

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

It's a shame no one ever gave Elon Musk the "You're good enough I guess, please stop calling your ex-wife, move on." talk to end his midlife crisis...

- I can say it definitely happens. I know a couple people, they aren't even obese either.