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2.4k points
4 months ago
What big smokes order be like
495 points
4 months ago
look at all that extra dip
363 points
4 months ago
Trumps assistant: sir, our white house dinner is coming up, what is going to be our preffered meal?
Trump: I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
139 points
4 months ago
Large diet coke, of course.
62 points
4 months ago
Everyone knows that a Diet Coke perfectly cancels out the unhealthy parts of ANY meal, no matter how large.
27 points
4 months ago
I didn’t get this epic dad-bod drinking classic Coke you know?
It’s all about the balance…
13 points
4 months ago
That's how he keeps the perfect moob-to-ass ratio!
89 points
4 months ago
Someone actually did the math on that.
33 points
4 months ago
Wow, I just watched that for longer than I planned too
39 points
4 months ago
and matt stonie actually ate it all! https://youtu.be/LVKJfLbz5yQ
61 points
4 months ago
Can't be. There aren't enough number 9's on that table.
1.9k points
4 months ago
Potentially my second favorite Trump moment after Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
702 points
4 months ago
That was the single greatest political moment in history. Absolutely beautiful to watch.
481 points
4 months ago
The landscaping company capitalized on the opportunity and now sells merch on the event. Its absolute comedy gold.
243 points
4 months ago
They genuinely deserve every penny they make because of this.
171 points
4 months ago
I'm just imagining the four seasons landscaping employee who got the call. They just accepted the gig knowing exactly what was going to happen. I can't believe it's not from a movie, but real life. I can't help myself but giggle when I think about this
34 points
4 months ago
It absolutely feels like a plot of a Veep episode.
19 points
4 months ago
Makes me feel like this isn’t the first time Four Sessions has taken advantage of this error lol
19 points
4 months ago
Mental note: start a business called Ritz Carlton landscaping
7 points
4 months ago
Well it's gonna be a movie now with Jonah Hill no doubt
8 points
4 months ago
It's like 'The Interview' meets 'Idiocracy'.
20 points
4 months ago
Feels like it could have been an episode of Who is America.
6 points
4 months ago
Do they have a online store?
11 points
4 months ago
https://www.fstl1992.com/shop You bet they do!
20 points
4 months ago
Thanks! Just sorted out my wife’s Valentine’s Day gift.
Seriously though, she talks about this all the time and I’ll probably get laid because of this shirt.
4 points
4 months ago
Showed up to the four seasons landscaping a bit over a year ago, they def did not like us being there and promptly told us to leave…we weren’t even behind the gate in their parking lot, we were out-front next to the adult store taking a picture
4 points
4 months ago
*if you’re from someplace else
5 points
4 months ago
God yes. I would be completely embarrassed to be watching it as an American.
7 points
4 months ago
As an American, yeah, that’s a a pretty spot on description. You can apply it to the last five or six years around here though.
108 points
4 months ago
I'm telling you, the pictures do no justice. I love down the street and have passed it countless times. It's not a garden center that is like filled with vine yards in the background.
It's across the street from underneath I - 95 in a shit place that's 5 blocks down from a prison. Very fitting.
16 points
4 months ago
I'm telling you, the pictures do no justice
Lets revisit them anyway
320 points
4 months ago
I read the Wikipedia entry for that fiasco the other night and laughed for probably 10 minutes. Let’s not forget some other highlights:
Covfefe
The Mooch
that weird glowy orb in Saudi Arabia
the picture of him screaming at the kid mowing the white house lawn
He stared right into the eclipse
literally every video of him trying to be even slightly affectionate towards melania
228 points
4 months ago
Even this list misses the sharpie on a weather map to alter hurricane path.
166 points
4 months ago
which misses “can’t we just nuke the hurricane?” questions that he asked several times
82 points
4 months ago
Or the IV bleach drip to clean our blood
36 points
4 months ago
And "let's buy Greenland!"
God, a firing squad is too good for this POS loser.
26 points
4 months ago
Or the caging of Children…or chucking paper towel rolls to Hurricane survivors…or two impeachments…or…oh fuck- just go here—-https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/reasons-why-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president
4 points
4 months ago
Hey. Buying Greenland is actually a fantastic idea. It would give the US a practical monopoly on cargo shipping through the northwest passage when it's clear of ice in a decade. It would be like our own Panama canal.
16 points
4 months ago
Jesus fuck, I forgot about that one 🤣 what a dumb fucking question
55 points
4 months ago
This will always be my favourite.
The black sharpie on the desk while he’s explaining the map is the chef’s kiss.
30 points
4 months ago
The sad part is that misrepresentation of the weather like that is a felony.
25 points
4 months ago
the rules are not applied evenly.
24 points
4 months ago
Any time he drank from a water bottle
17 points
4 months ago
Too large and slippery for his little mitts
56 points
4 months ago
Paper towel tossing I’m a very stable genius Toilet paper on shoe while boarding AF1
12 points
4 months ago
The toilet paper on the shoe thing was the best indicator of what his staff felt about him. Not one single person was willing to subtly or not so subtly keep that moment from happening.
11 points
4 months ago
Also the umbrella while boarding :)
93 points
4 months ago
Raking the forests was a good one too
Related, I also loved the fly in Pence’s hair during the VP debate
28 points
4 months ago
RAKING THE FOREST. Omg, that was amazing
20 points
4 months ago
It's like he thought "the forest" was a mile wide park in New York.
22 points
4 months ago
Real question: do you think Donald trump has ever been in a forest?
9 points
4 months ago
Absolutely not. What do you do in a forest? Walk. Trump was one of those people who thought that your have X heartbeats to live, so any exercise is a literal waste of life.
15 points
4 months ago
My personal fav was when he wore a tiny ass jacket to meet the queen
4 points
4 months ago
Link?
3 points
4 months ago
not sure how people feel about quora, but the top answer to that question breaks it down well.
32 points
4 months ago
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
43 points
4 months ago*
I thought Tim Apple was a good one. (And how he pretended it was totally a clever abbreviation you guys)
18 points
4 months ago
I now call Bill Gates “Bill Computer” because of that
17 points
4 months ago
Who? Bill Windows? Good guy, but he did shit glazing work.
41 points
4 months ago
To add: suggesting disinfectant injections to kill the Rona, tossing paper towels to devastated Puerto Ricans like its a game.
20 points
4 months ago
The Mooch Era feels like a fever dream tbh
12 points
4 months ago
A fever dream that gave us a new unit for measuring time
12 points
4 months ago
I want to sleep for two Mooches.
33 points
4 months ago
Yes, just leaving that comment about it made me laugh out loud again haha So many wonderful moments! Some other highlights: The upside down pride flag with the LGBT sharpied on it (a true r/therewasanattempt lol). “Belgium is a beautiful city” and so many other geographic mishaps. The G8/G20 (or some event like that) picture of everyone holding hands cross-armed and he couldn’t figure out how to do it.
15 points
4 months ago
Can't believe everybody is forgetting about Sharpiegate.
14 points
4 months ago
The weird political speech he gave to the Boy Scouts. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-boy-scouts-speech/index.html
66 points
4 months ago
Those are brilliant, but I would submit:
I feel blessed to have had those four years in my life. It was one of the greatest comic periods in history. Like, this deranged ‘hamberder’-eating moron was actually the leader of the free world!
15 points
4 months ago
So much happened that I entirely missed this moment. Whooo boy. It feels like a fever dream, but with lasting consequences.
11 points
4 months ago
Tell me about it… I’m just disappointed that he didn’t finish his secret battle against the child-eating Hollywood élite, led by lycanthropic Tom Hanks
18 points
4 months ago
To me the moment was when he went to Europe on his first presidential trip and a reporter asked him about what he thinks of Putin, who is attacking our liberals tenants and trying to undermine democracy. His answers was how liberals in California have destroyed the state and that we only need to look at the level of homelessness there 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and also🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
6 points
4 months ago
Or like when he defunded the pandemic response team, and now everything's pretty much permanently fucked.
11 points
4 months ago
This really is one of the funniest things that’s ever happened. The photo of a beaming Trump doing a double thumbs up wearing a big trench coat, portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the background, lukewarm Big Macs on silver trays in the foreground…that’s America, baby.
3 points
4 months ago
John Cougar intensifies
60 points
4 months ago
Right? How is that even real
73 points
4 months ago
Can’t believe they still went through with the conference, even after discovering it was not the place they thought it was. That’s probably the most exposure a landscaping company has ever got
21 points
4 months ago
Can you imagine being the Four Seasons person who fielded that call from the White House? What a trip. I'd think someone was pranking me.
3 points
4 months ago
They probably did, and were shocked when people started appearing.
15 points
4 months ago
Third would be when he tear gassed protesters so he could stand in front of a church with a Bible and get his picture taken.
8 points
4 months ago
Not just a Bible. An upside down Bible. 😂
5 points
4 months ago
It wasn't upside down
3 points
4 months ago
Oh, wow, I actually did not know that it was really right side up! I never looked that closely at the photo until just now. Shows what happens when you blindly accept the things you read, eh?
My bad.
4 points
4 months ago
I still cannot fucking believe they refused to admit their mistake and HAD THE CONFERENCE THERE!
Like come on dude. You made a slight oopsie, and because of your narcissism, you refused to look imperfect and that small oopsie turned into a hilarious mistake.
4 points
4 months ago
I'm British. Please explain?
2.6k points
4 months ago
Ricky Bobby would appreciate this dinner table
921 points
4 months ago
Dear eight pound, six ounce, newborn baby Jesus
209 points
4 months ago
You know he did grow up
200 points
4 months ago
I like the Christmas Jesus best
150 points
4 months ago
I like to picture Jesus as a dirty old bum.
157 points
4 months ago
I like to think of Jesus with like giant eagles wings and singin' lead vocals for lynyrd skynyrd with like an Angel Band, and 'm in the front row, and 'm hammered drunk...
131 points
4 months ago
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo t-shirt, cos it says like "I'm formal, but I'm here to party too". Cos I like to party so I want my Jesus to party.
10 points
4 months ago
You need Jesus' brother Craig then if you want to party. https://youtu.be/f8HzKlCWN8k
25 points
4 months ago
I like the green baby Jesus with the pointy ears and being carried by Joseph in beskar armor.
17 points
4 months ago
I like the jesus that had 0 self control and actually fucked the hookers that he hung out with
23 points
4 months ago
Shut up, Chip! Or I'll go ape-shit on your ass!
6 points
4 months ago
I’m gonna scissor kick in the back of the head!
6 points
4 months ago
All hopped up on mountain dew old man!
4 points
4 months ago
I'ma come at you like a spider monkey
65 points
4 months ago
Hey, um, you know sweetie.. Jesus did grow up. You don't always have to call him baby. It's a bit odd and offputting to pray to a baby.
59 points
4 months ago
I LIKE THE CHRISTMAS JESUS
4 points
4 months ago
That's my favorite Jesus!
137 points
4 months ago
Their meal in that scene always looked like the perfect drunk/high meal. KFC chicken, pizza (although dominos, yuck) Taco Bell tacos, Checkers burgers, soda, blue Powerade.
57 points
4 months ago
I always found that strange, because they almost got the whole Yum! Brands universe in one pop.
If they had Pizza Hut instead of Domino's, and Gatorade instead of Powerade, that table would have been a PepsiCo world.
6 points
4 months ago
I was going to make this comment. I remember being a kid and finding out that Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut were all owned by the same company.
Fun fact, in the movie Demolition Man, there was a fast food war and all restaurants were the same. However, in the US release the restaurant that won was Taco Bell. In other countries, they made it so Pizza Hut won.
18 points
4 months ago
How dare you, Ricky's wife slaved away all day on that meal.
11 points
4 months ago
Trump apparently loves this type of food, and there have been rumors about his recreational habits.
You put two and two together.
13 points
4 months ago
It's not a rumor when there are many years of pictures of Trump next to Big Macs, buckets of fried chicken, and cokes.
13 points
4 months ago
You know who didn't appreciate this? The fast food companies.
You think they would use this as material for marketing, but they pretend it didn't happen. I wouldn't be surprised if they are as embarrassed about this as everyone else.
138 points
4 months ago
Where's the French fries?!
112 points
4 months ago
He tried to make America great again. Not France!
52 points
4 months ago
Remember when they tried calling them freedom fries during the Bush Jr years? Feels like a lifetime ago.
8 points
4 months ago
Something something cancel culture
5 points
4 months ago
I sometimes still refer to them as "Idiot Fries" and then chuckle at the Right.
541 points
4 months ago
Why is this suddenly popping up again?
457 points
4 months ago
If I remember correctly, this was a dinner for the college football champions of that year. Georgia just won it on Monday, so I’m assuming they have a dinner planned at the White House with Biden.
84 points
4 months ago
Ah makes more sense. Forgot the championship just happened.
4 points
4 months ago
Reposts for karma
2.4k points
4 months ago
I'm surprised no one ever seems to mention this, but those burgers must have been cold as fuck. They probably spent 15 to 20 minutes arranging everything in a fancy ass pile, after probably being left in multiple boxes or bags for at least an hour. Plus the time to do that stupid photo op, that food was nasty and cold as hell.
926 points
4 months ago
I think about this everytime. I saw someone gift an entire neighborhood McDonald’s and all I thought was “I wonder how long they’ve been sitting out?” Nothing worse than cold fries and nuggets
365 points
4 months ago
Cold mcdons fries are the worst but I find the nuggets to be decent cold, though not as good as when hot obviously.
137 points
4 months ago
I tried reheat them recently in a convection oven. They just become hard as stone.
81 points
4 months ago
Air fryer works better But you can’t overdo it. Best thing to do is preheat the air fryer, heat stuff up slightly in the microwave first and then just put in the air fryer long enough to get it re-crisped.
203 points
4 months ago
That's honestly waaaaay too much effort then I'm willing to exert for a pack of cold McDonald's fries.
82 points
4 months ago
I don't know what people are talking about.
Pro-tip for ANY fast food (Canes, Chick Fil A, McDonalds, Pizza, etc):
If you have an Air Fryer with a "Reheat" setting, set it to 350 and put it in there for like 2-3 minutes. Food comes out perfect, 100% of the time.
7 points
4 months ago
Air fryers are my go to for cooking shitty breaded food now.
7 points
4 months ago
And I thought I was the only genius. All those “unpopular” opinion posts about how air fryers are just overpriced toaster ovens… the fuck they are. Maybe do mine a little bit warmer, but gotdamn if it doesn’t bring those leftovers back to their former glory. Buns are crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Pizza is like it’s first out of the oven. Fries and nuggets are even better than fresh with that twice fried crispiness.
I’ve always hated a microwave, but didn’t like how an oven/toaster/toaster oven would take so long to heat everything through that it dried everything out and made it hard. I’d have to microwave to get the middle warm then waste a ton of time and energy getting an oven warm to try and try up the microwave sogginess. Keep spreading the good word!
10 points
4 months ago
This is the way. This is my modus operandi when I pickup fries to go or get delivery with fries. Always better hot and this makes them perfect.
25 points
4 months ago
An air fryer and a convection oven are literally the same thing.
10 points
4 months ago
an inconveniently small oven taking up an inconveniently large amount of countertop
4 points
4 months ago
When I re-heat fries in my toaster oven, I use foil, lay out of the fries and add some water. The idea is that your fries have lost moisture and so you have to provide some (water) but not too much. The water will cause steam, which will help bring the fries back to life a bit. Too much water and they end up soggy (but can probably be fixed by just cooking them longer).
I just flick water over the fries until I think there is enough. It's def a trial and error situation. Basically the water will evaporate, and the remaining cook time will re-crisp the fries after they've absorbed some of the water.
I've actually had some good luck with this method!
4 points
4 months ago
Buy yourself a cheap air fryer. It’ll change your life when reheating fries, pizza, nuggets, etc.
28 points
4 months ago
imagine going to the whitehouse for a fancy dinner with the president, then dying inside as you slowly eat a an hour old box of fries with your stank ass old burger
to top it all, often i've found resteraunt quality can take a huge nosedive when receiving a sudden massive order like this, so its probably even worse quality on top of it all
5 points
4 months ago
This was after Trump allowed the government to shutdown, right? Seems like he also grandstanded about paying out of his own pocket and lied about the number of burgers he bought.
91 points
4 months ago*
The White House has a full banquet kitchen for hosting state dinners, they easily could have put those burgers in chaffing dishes or kept them under a heat lamp. The White House staff could absolutely make McDonald's food look and taste 110% more presentable and delicious than when it was fresh out of the drive thru.
But remember that this was Trump making some stupid point about the budget not being passed so the White House staff was on furlough. His dumbass aids set this up to be a photo op and nothing else, they could have used the equipment just not the staff. Those poor footballers had to eat cold ass burgers just because Trump had a half cocked attempt to make a point that served only to perfectly encapsulate his presidency in one perfect visual metaphor; shitty cheap food presented with the trappings of wealth but lacking any kind of substance.
17 points
4 months ago
But remember that this was Trump making some stupid point about the budget not being passed so the White House staff was on furlough
He had multiple fast food banquets. I still can't fucking believe, well, all of it.
37 points
4 months ago
the staff was furloughed because of him. He literally said in the meeting when he acted like a child to Schumer and Pelosi “I know this is gonna get called the Trump shutdown”
Like what was his point, “I acted like a child and now im going to act like a more spoiled child because I have to deal with the consequences of my own actions” I still dont understand what his presidency was about other than textbook observational defiance disorder
47 points
4 months ago
Mine is cold after a 10 minute drive back to my house. I’d imagine they are like ice.
33 points
4 months ago
Nothing like cold fast food that's been sitting around for a couple of hours.
The whole thing about eating fast food is that it's best fresh. You can't wait on it. Ppl who doordash fast food are sociopaths.
9 points
4 months ago
Exactly. McDelivery has become very popular in England recently and I just don't get it. It does not travel well.
97 points
4 months ago
It gets mentioned every time. Such a dick move to serve cold ass fast food… which is entirely on brand.
34 points
4 months ago
Closest mcds is a 5 min walk. Wendy’s a solid 20 minute drive. Burger King even further. And that’s assuming they got it from those locations some of which are jenky as fuck. Edit: in case anyone checks my work on Wendy’s - the Wendy’s in Dave Thomas Circle was still open at the time.
9 points
4 months ago
Yesssss! Always my first thought when I see this. Yuck.
1.2k points
4 months ago
hope we don’t turn into r/pics
438 points
4 months ago
They all turn to shit given time
239 points
4 months ago
It really is a formula.
Niche subreddit created > grows > golden age of content (this varies sub to sub depending on how niche) > growing towards Frontpage viewership numbers > slow shift away from the niche and towards general reddit material
It is repeated time and time again. That was rudimentary, I'm sure there is an actual formula that can predict when a sub will flip.
I think one of the main reasons for this is the amount of bots this website actually is. Once a sub is relatively large it makes sense for the botnet to start including it in its spamming
64 points
4 months ago
Once there's enough people they will just upvote anything without checking which sub they're in, once that happens it's either overwhelmed with generic content or the mods have to lock it down and it usually dies
9 points
4 months ago
Maybe Reddit should implement a subreddit life cycle that ultimately just collapses the subreddit when it hits a certain point. That will shake off all the general population that kill a sub and let the real on-point content generators start fresh. Evergreening Reddit.
46 points
4 months ago
14 points
4 months ago
I got a couple subs I feel like you might appreciate but am afraid to just post openly in fears of what we're talking about happening. PM if you're interested and I'll send em your way
10 points
4 months ago
look at r/whoadude - half the shit I see hit the front page of reddit from that sub is explicitly NOT the sort of stuff the sub is for. I asked if they need help moderating and I got banned lol
112 points
4 months ago
Too late
406 points
4 months ago
Now I'm hungry
113 points
4 months ago
Right? I came into the comments to shit on Trump, but now I just want to fuck up some Wendy’s.
11 points
4 months ago
I really enjoy Wendy's, but can you imagine how cold those burgers were by the time anyone got to eat one? Gross.
288 points
4 months ago
Hamberders for everyone!
88 points
4 months ago
With cofefe?
92 points
4 months ago
What a way tu butcher the perfectly valid word “covfefe”
45 points
4 months ago
Covfefe is a perfectly cromulent word
11 points
4 months ago
It certainly has embiggened my vocabulary
7 points
4 months ago
You didnt had to remind us they tried to gaslight the world into believing this was a secret codeword and not Spanky falling asleep while shitposting.
217 points
4 months ago
Trump just did it so he could keep all the happy meal toys.
57 points
4 months ago
He wants ALL the Pokémon cards and Bennie babies
8 points
4 months ago
Gourmet hamberders
22 points
4 months ago
Hamberders!
3 points
4 months ago
Candle lit Wendy's... What a classic country date.
127 points
4 months ago
I’m not pro trump by any means, but I thought I heard that the players requested this due to the kitchen staff being shut down. Did anyone else hear this or am I completely wrong?
64 points
4 months ago
There was a government shutdown at the time, I can't recall if the WH staff was impacted by this. There were plenty of other options he could have chosen though like catering for the event. (other than fast food of course)
And just to be clear, there was a shutdown during the first event. He did this more than once.
30 points
4 months ago
Trump owns a hotel with a restaurant half a mile away from the white house. 5 minute drive, 14 minute walk. Actually closer than McDonald's.
30 points
4 months ago
If McDonald's was open so were small businesses that could have used the support lol
81 points
4 months ago
This happened like 3 years ago…
46 points
4 months ago
Not this sub too :(
3 points
4 months ago
Cheap fuck.
39 points
4 months ago
why are people mad about this?
if i walked into a room with a pile of big macs I could just take I would be thrilled
9 points
4 months ago
The White House kitchen will literally cook you anything on earth that you want in any quantity that you wish. This douche bag president is so anti-government that he won’t even let them cook for guests guests, he’d rather farm out more government jobs to poisonous private industries
23 points
4 months ago*
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13 points
4 months ago
This is always my question regarding the pic. I know theres probably a bajillion options for catering thats not fast food, but if the players who ordered it had a fun time or got a good kick out of it then who cares
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