Former President Donald Trump continued to woo voters by giving them … food. Trump showed up at the Treehouse Pub & Eatery in Bettendorf, Iowa, on Wednesday where he handed out pizzas to patrons.
“Who wants one?” Trump asked the crowd, according to Fox News, as he distributed pizza boxes and took photos and talked with supporters.
The crowd, Fox News added, “swarmed” to Trump and greeted him with loud chants of “U-S-A,” and a rendition of Lee Greenwood’s hit “Proud to be an American.”
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This is at least the third time this year Trump has turned up among everyday folks and handed out food to connect with them.
As the Tampa Free Press reported earlier this month, Trump manned the grill and tossed footballs to fans at a tailgate party at the Iowa-Iowa State game.
Two months before that, he turned up at a Dairy Queen in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and bought a round of Blizzards for the crowd.
“Everybody wants a Blizzard. What the hell is a Blizzard?” Trump said as he mingled with the ice cream fans. “Take care of the people, OK? Will you take care of ‘em for me, and we’ll do the Blizzard thing, alright?” he added.
Back in February Trump visited Eat Palestine, Ohio, the site of a train derailment that became one of the worst environmental disasters in modern memory, and appeared in a local McDonald’s where he bought food for first-responders and residents.
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Noting Trump’s pizza push on Wednesday, conservative activist Charlie Kirk said on X (formerly Twitter), “Trump 2.0 is different from the 2016 or 2020 version.”
“Trump 2.0 is Retail politics > Rallies and events. Trump 2.0 hands out pizzas to Iowa voters: ‘We want pizza from Trump!’ Trump 2.0 is Trump at a pub. Trump at an (sic) Dairy Queen. Trump 2.0 is ignoring a canned, media-dominated GOP debate to visit striking auto workers in Michigan. Trump 2.0 is going to East Palestine before Biden,” Kirk added.
“No one can match Trump at retail politics. Often imitated, never duplicated. And the media will have to cover every minute of it. They need the ratings.”
And, of course, to recall Trump’s most famous flourish with food, in January 2019 the then-president fed the national champion Clemson Tigers football team McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and pizza during their visit to the White House.
“We have some very large people that like eating. So I think we’re going to have a little fun,” Trump told reporters.
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