The Liberal media spent two and half years pushing the fake Russian collusion story and accusing President Trump of being a Russian asset, but that got blown out of the water by the Mueller report. Lefty journalists could just move on to some other manufactured bullshit, but they invested too much time into this fake story to let it go. The Washington Post thinks they’ve finally found the smoking gun proving Trump works for the Russian government and it’s because he likes hamburgers. I’m not kidding, this is what the WaPo came up with to keep the Russian collusion lie alive.
Here’s a real WaPo headline: Even one of Trump’s favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection
And that favorite food is hamburgers:
It’s high summer — hamburger season. The char, the fat, the squishy perfection of processed bread sopping up the overflowing juices — doesn’t it somehow seem like Americans’ birthright? There’s a reason that President Trump chose to serve hamburgers — twice — as an all-American feast for some all-American championship college football players.
Which the WaPO claims are actually symbols of communist Russia:
But peel back the oil-spattered pages of history, and you’ll find that the sandwich so closely aligned with the stars and stripes was once also embraced by the hammer and sickle. (Yep, like so much about this current administration, even Trump’s beloved hamburgers have surprising ties to Russia.)
The WaPo’s evidence is that in 1936 Soviet food commissar Anastas Mikoyan visited the US on a fact-finding mission and fell in love with our hamburgers. He then brought them back and introduced them to Russia.
“Mikoyan shared Trump’s opinion of fast food. He was a great admirer. If the war hadn’t broken out in 1941, we would have a chain of McMikoyan’s,” said University of Helsinki sociologist Jukka Gronow.
Except that the USSR was a communist regime where capitalist free market fast-food chains were not allowed to exist.
Okay, that’s the extent of this WaPo conspiracy theory: Trump likes hamburgers and because a Russian guy tried and failed to introduce hamburgers in the Soviet Union, Trump is a Russian asset. I know I say this a lot, but this is one of the single dumbest things ever written.
This is like claiming that because both Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin wear suits Trump is a Russian intelligence asset. Geez, I hope I didn’t ruin the WaPo’s next Trump bombshell with that.
If Trump was scarfing down borscht and pirozhkis then yeah, maybe there should be some concern, but the President likes the uniquely American dish known as hamburgers. Though named after Hamburg, Germany the food was invented in the US around the turn of the 20th Century. Just because a Russian guy liked them back in the 1930’s doesn’t come close to making them Russian.
This is how pathetic the liberal media opposition to the freely-elected President of the United States has become: “No evidence of Russian collusion? Fine, but Trump likes hamburgers and everyone knows that makes him a Russian asset.”
President Trump is a big fan of McDonald’s so can we expect an exposé on how the Chinese really invented Chicken McNuggets and by eating them Trump is a Chinese spy? Maybe his love of Egg McMuffins means his loyalties are with North Korea. What? Is that any dumber than the hamburger thing?
My favorite part about this story is that I imagine there was a WaPo editorial board meeting where they expressed their concern that their breathless coverage of the fake Russian collusion story has damaged their credibility. Just then a young ambition cub report suggested that they connect Trump to Russia through his fast food habit and the room erupted in applause. “We’re saved!”
