President Donald Trump poked fun at the DoorDash delivery promotion held at the Oval Office earlier this week, calling it “tacky” and “embarrassing” after it was brutally mocked online.
“Sharon delivered McDonald’s to the Oval Office. Was a little bit of a, you know, I mean, to be honest, a little tacky,” Trump said at an event in Las Vegas on Thursday. “You know, they come up with these crazy ideas.”
The PR stunt posted Monday featured DoorDash driver Sharon Simmons, 58, a grandmother from Arkansas, hand-delivering McDonald’s to Trump at the White House. The president later hands Simmons a tip after a reporter asks whether the White House staff were good tippers.
The video was staged to promote the president’s “no tax on tips” policy as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (rebranded as the Working Families Tax Cut Act).
The White House claimed that Simmons, who wore a bright red shirt reading “DoorDash Grandma,” had saved “$11,000” last year because of Trump’s policy, and it had gone towards her husband’s cancer treatment.
