Kmflett's Blog

I more usually post menus from Royal Banquets but since Trump thinks he is King this doesn’t seem entirely inappropriate.

For those who might have noted Trump’s eating preferences previously no incinerated steak or cheeseburger can be found…

The salad seems perfunctory, French beans with the turkey a nod to some distant view of healthy eating (if he ate them) and, well, a birthday cake should be indulgent.

The wider political point (as you’d expect) is that as Trump sees himself in Churchillian leader mode, both Churchill and the wider British ruling class were devotees of French fine dining (tho Churchill like Gruyere). French beans do not fill the gap