...Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted".

Trump’s fast-food diet is a theme. “On Trump Force One there were four major food groups: McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke,” the authors write.
 
 The plane’s cupboards were stacked with Vienna Fingers, potato chips, pretzels and many packages of Oreos because Trump, a renowned germaphobe, would not eat from a previously opened package.

The book notes that “the orchestrating and timing of Mr. Trump’s meals was as important as any other aspect of his march to the presidency,” and it describes the elaborate efforts that Lewandowski and other top aides went through to carefully time their delivery of hot fast food to Trump’s plane as he was departing his rallies.
 


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holy shit: image via dan mentos @DanMentos, 1 August 2016


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oh my god he ate Harambe: image via Brian Altano @agentbizzle, 1 August 2016


My love for the lord and savior Harambe will never burn out #Harambe
: image via Andrés @Andres301, 28 July 2016




Untitled [Ghosts of Xmas Past]: image via Emoluments Clause @Emolclause, 3 December 2017


#BREAKING: YET ANOTHER #Kushner FAILURE TO DISCLOSE--This time he didn't DISCLOSE that he led a foundation funding ILLEGAL Israeli settlements. Folks is there a law HE HASN'T BROKEN YET? #TheResistance #Trump #CNN #MSNBC #FoxNews #bbcnews: image via Emoluments Clause @Emolclause, 3 December 2017

Tristram Shandy: The Battle of the Cataplasm

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The Battle of the Cataplasm: engraving by Henry Bunbury in The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, published by J. Bretherton, London, 1773. Dr. Slop and Susannah exchanging abuse; Dr. Slop stands, with his wig burning, about to throw cataplasm in Susannah's face. Susannah stands behind the cradle in which lies the infant Tristram, a plaster across his nose, as she holds her nose and a candle. (British Cartoon Collection, Library of Congress) 

WHEN the cataplasm was ready, a scruple of decorum had unseasonably rose up in Susannah's conscience, about holding the candle, whilst Slop tied it on; Slop had not treated Susannah's distemper with anodines, ----- and so a quarrel had ensued betwixt them.
                        

----- Oh! oh! ----- said Slop, casting a glance of undue freedom in Susannah's face, as she declined the office; ----- then, I think I know you, madam ----- You know me, Sir! cried Susannah fastidiously, and with a toss of her head, levelled evidently, not at his profession, but at the doctor himself, ----- you know me! cried Susannah again. ----- Doctor Slop clapped his finger and his thumb instantly upon his nostrils; ----- Susannah's spleen was ready to burst at it; ----- Tis false, said Susannah. ----- Come, come, Mrs. Modesty, said Slop, not a little elated with the success of his last thrust, ----- if you won't hold the candle, and look ----- you may hold it and shut your eyes: ----- That's one of your popish shifts, cried Susannah: ----- 'Tis better, said Slop, with a nod, than no shift at all, young
woman; ----- I defy you, Sir, cried Susannah, pulling her shift sleeve below her elbow.

It was almost impossible for two persons to assist each other in a surgical case with a more splenetic cordiality.

Slop snatched up the cataplasm, ----- Susannah snatched up the candle; ----- A little this way, said Slop; Susannah looking one way, and rowing another, instantly set fire to Slop's wig, which being somewhat bushy and unctuous withal, was burnt out before it was well kindled. ----- You impudent whore! cried Slop, ----- (for what is passion, but a wild beast) ----- you impudent whore, cried Slop, getting upright, with the cataplasm in his hand; ----- I never was the destruction of any body's nose, said Susannah,----- which is more than you can say:
---- Is it ? cried Slop, throwing the cataplasm in her face; ----- Yes, it is, cried Susannah, returning the compliment with what was left in the pan. -----


Image from page 326 of "A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female .." (1848) | by Internet Archive Book Images

Cataplasm. Image from page 326 of "A Complete practical work on the nature and treatment of venereal diseases, and other affections of the genito-urinary organs of the male and female .." (1848): image via Internet Archive Book Images

Laurence Sterne (1713-1768): from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Volume VI (1762), Chapter III

Starting to look a lot like a Bill Ding Christmas