Trump will get McDonalds DoorDashed to White House after which takes Iran struggle questions with supply individual | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump took in-person supply of his McDonald’s lunch order on the White House Monday — and that odd second marked probably the most regular factor in Trumpworld the final 24 hours.

While holding his luggage of cheeseburgers, Trump saved the supply driver at his aspect whereas she weughed in on his no-tax-on-tips measure and he addressed reporters on a variety of points together with the Iran struggle. The really weird stunt performed out because the U.S. started a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the president was embroiled in a simmering controversy over his posting an AI picture of himself as Jesus Christ on Truth Social.

The publicly unscheduled however clearly scripted press occasion performed out simply after midday because the press pool was ushered to the entrance door of the Oval Office to observe the president of the United States grin and obtain two giant luggage of McDonalds from a supply driver who then turned to reporters and praised the GOP’s transfer to finish taxes on tipped wages in 2025.

“McDonalds!” the red-clad lady mentioned in a tone clearly solely audible to reporters exterior the Oval as she rapped rapidly on the door. Trump, a second later, opens the door: “Oh, nice to see you!”

“Nice to meet you,” the lady replied. The two started a banter about how the “No Tax On Tips” coverage Trump championed throughout the 2024 election was now serving to her as a part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” handed into legislation final yr.

In a second of self consciousness, Trump quipped to Simmons: “This doesn’t look staged.”

Trump then addressed reporters and started a full press convention, the president standing side-by-side with the supply lady in her crimson DoorDash polo shirt, and issued his latest threats in opposition to Iran and even spoke about his battle with the Pope. His first query got here from a reporter who requested about an AI-generated picture the president posted after which deleted which depicted him as Jesus Christ.

“I thought it was me as a doctor,” Trump claimed of the picture that portrayed him robed, holding his hand to a person’s brow and therapeutic him with a glowing white gentle. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better.” The president didn’t clarify why he deleted the picture, which drew criticism from some conservatives and Christians.

He additionally responded to a query concerning the present state of U.S.-Iran negotiations, and confirmed as soon as once more that the “sticking point” within the talks centered round Iran’s future nuclear ambitions. Trump had beforehand insisted that Iran had agreed to surrender plans of growing nuclear weapons sooner or later as he insisted that his struggle with the nation was already gained, however over the weekend modified his story to confess that Tehran’s refusal to comply with U.S. calls for concerning its nuclear program was the explanation for the battle persevering with.

“[The sticking point] was over nuclear, yeah […] Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters. “And we agreed to a lot of things but they didn’t agree to that. And I think they will agree to it, I’m almost sure of it. In fact I am sure of it, if they don’t agree there’s no deal, there will never be a deal. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. And we’ll get the dust back. We’ll get it back either way; we’ll get it back from them, or we’ll take it.”

Trump’s reference to “the mud” refers to Iran’s remaining provide of enriched uranium, a lot or all of which is believed to be buried below rock and earth on account of damaging U.S. strikes at Isfahan, Natanz and Fordow, three websites tied to the Iranian nuclear program hit by U.S. strikes final summer time. Among the U.S.’s calls for embrace the switch of any remaining materials to American palms.

In yet another embarrassing second, as the lady recognized as “Sharon” stood beside him, Trump turned from attacking Democrats to the digital camera and posed a query to the DoorDash driver who was nonetheless awkwardly standing there concerning her views on “men in women’s sports”, the president and Republicans’ shorthand for the proper of transgender women and girls to take part in sporting leagues akin to their most well-liked gender.

She sheepishly replied: “I really don’t have an opinion on that. No, no, I’m here on no tax on tips,” because the president pressed her.

The Independent reached out to the White House for extra particulars concerning the occasion and the president’s order.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung later posted a photograph of a half-eaten burger he declared he’d “had to dig in” to.

Simmons isn’t any stranger to Washington and beforehand testified earlier than the House Ways and Means Committee for a listening to geared toward touting the “No Tax On Tips” laws included as a part of the GOP’s price range reconciliation package deal final yr. The populist provision was a part of a reconciliation package deal that included a large surge of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and in addition prolonged the 2017 Republican tax cuts handed below the president’s first time period.

“This moment represents something bigger than a single delivery. It’s about the millions of Dashers across the country who are now able to keep more of what they earn when filing their taxes this year. With No Tax on Tips, Dashers across the U.S. saved hundreds of millions of dollars last year. DoorDash is proud to advocate on behalf of Dashers like Sharon and push for policies like No Tax on Tips because they deliver real impact to so many hardworking people and their families,” DoorDash mentioned in a press release concerning Monday’s occasion.

According to info supplied to USA Today by DoorDash, Simmons has accomplished almost 12,000 deliveries on the DoorDash platform, in keeping with her congressional testimony in July of final yr.

“In early 2025, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and the toll that radiation & chemotherapy took on him forced him to reduce his hours at his job. Because DoorDash provides me with a truly flexible work schedule, I was able to drive him to and from his treatments. During that time, every extra dollar I earned mattered more than ever,” she advised Congress final yr.