When even a Fox & Friend host pokes fun at Trump you know he blew it on something. Oh, the couch crew tried to salvage it with one of them pointing out Trump’s proving he was a regular guy when he tossed out rolls of paper towels in hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico but some damage control is a bridge too far.
Now, I’m not a huge ice cream fan although I’d never turned down a chocolate milkshake. (Ok, since becoming diabetic I’d limit my intake) But the one kind of ice cream I could always enjoy from the time I can remember was from our local Dairy Queen. Because it was soft serve. (longer story) I’d moved away from there by the time DQ came up with the Blizzard. I’d still rather have a chocolate milkshake if I went to a local one but hell, how can a person NOT know what a Blizzard is? It’s only DQ’s signature offering! It seems like I’m always seeing ads for this or that new type of Blizzard, or the featured one for the month or the return of a former favorite.
Seriously, how can a guy who watches TV as much as Trump does NOT know about Dairy Queen’s Blizzards? To be fair, I’m sure he watches a lot of recorded stuff and like us regular folks fast-forwards through the commercials. But that’s not the kind of thing that would cause corporate types to get warm fuzzies and donate since they spend fortunes on advertising. Still, he watches a lot of live TV so he has to have seen DQ commercials. Maybe he mutes them or channel surfs if they aren’t about him. That kinda makes sense. Maybe.
But while we know Mickey D’s is his go-to fast food joint someone probably told him Dairy Queens are all over the place. In fact, there are over 4300 of them around the country, and in 49 states. FL is in the top ten when it comes to the number of DQ franchises in the various states. Makes sense given how hot it is down there. However the point is that Dairy Queens are staples in small town America, especially large swaths of MAGA territory. So, while out amongst the MAGAs during a campaign stop in Iowa Trump decided to “go where the MAGAs in that town go. To Dairy Queen.
After the debacle at the famous Cuban restaurant in Miami Trump wanted to actually buy the crowd a treat. And being Trump figured in a fast food joint it would cost a lost less than some entre at that Cuban joint.(I wonder if they asked for a credit card before starting to make all those Blizzards?) While the video clip in this attached story doesn’t show it Trump probably asked “What’s the most popular thing on your menu?” And when they tell him (all the freaking signs at every Dairy Queen provide one huge f**king hint) he doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about!
Politicians go to great lengths to prove they are “regular folks” and many do have some regular person qualities. Or can genuinely empathize. Trump of course is NOT one. I do however wonder if this is something that could come back to bit him down the road. All those MAGAs out there ordering up their DQ treat (maybe we should encourage DQ to come up with an orange flavored one – remind them of this little fail) remember this incident. Talk about it with each other, and (gasp) ask how could he not have known? Maybe he’s just some rich dude trying to pretend he’s one of us.
It’s a faint hope I know, but I’ll take even hints of hope when it comes to something, or a combination of things knocking the scales from these people’s eyes.
If he were still alive I’ll bet Bush 41 would be smiling. He tried a regular guy foray into normal people world and couldn’t contain his amazement over scanners at checkout stations. Oh how the media had fun with pointing out the cluelessness of the patrician Bush, and his fail at being a regular guy out doing a little shopping like any regular person.
I rather doubt Trump’s fail will get the same level of mockery. But as I said, this is something that can get filed away in the “something to go after him on” cabinet of primary opponents. And wouldn’t it be grand if President Biden happens to have a DQ near the family home in Wilmington? And heads up there to attend church and visit the adjacent cemetery, then take the gang to that Dairy Queen? And with the cameras rolling have the person at the counter say “You want your usual sir?” and whip up his favorite flavor of Blizzard? Ok, so I have weird fantasies sometimes, but what the hell…
Apparently, there are no ice cream shops in Hell.
*smirk*
The more I think about it the funnier and more ludicrous it becomes. We KNOW Trump loves ice cream. Along with his “beautiful” hunk of chocolate cake he likes for desert he has TWO scoops of ice cream with it. Anyone else at the table is only allowed one scoop of course. This is Trump after all and he has to get more than everyone else and rub their noses in it. Anyway he loves ice cream and also loves fast food. With Dairy Queens all over the place it’s weird he apparently has never been in one, or at least not for decades now. Again, with them being in so many MAGA places IF this gets picked up it will make at least some MAGAs wonder how the hell a dude that loves ice cream and fast food hasn’t been in at least ONE DQ and learned about Blizzards. And just how real his “I’m one of you” talk is.
There are but the ice cream is served melted and hot.
I hate to admit I am not knowledgeable about embedding things in comments. I have done a copy/paste of something that is on Twitter (which I am not on) and I hope it works because it answers your prayers. It is a small video of Cool Joe Biden serving Blizzards and turning each one upside-down because he knows that signature move!!
Awesome. Thanks for posting this!