Trump’s burger banquet, with ‘Old Hickory’ sauce

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It was the fast food feast heard ’round the world.

On Jan. 14, President Trump welcomed the Clemson University Tigers football team to the White House, treating the Nick Saban-slaying national champions to a meal in the State Dining Room composed entirely of selections from national fast-food chains. The estimated 300-burger, $3,000 spread of McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and Domino’s was chosen, and paid for, by the president himself.

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