With White House habitation staff among those hit by the US government shutdown, Donald Trump by and by requested in an "all American" devour of burgers and pizza on Monday for a meeting football crew.
"As a result of the shutdown, as you most likely are aware... we went out and we requested American junk food paid for by me," the president joked, as he arranged to have the Clemson Tigers college players to praise their national title win.
"I think they'd like it superior to anything we could give," said Trump, in the wake of arriving back at the White House following multi day outing to New Orleans.
"We have pizzas, we have 300 burgers, many, many French fries, the majority of our most loved sustenances - I need to perceive what's here when we leave, since I don't believe it will be much," the president considered.
Requested to name his own most loved junk food - as he stood grinning behind the huge spread - Trump challenged, demanding: "I like them all."
"In the event that it's American, I like it. It's everything American stuff."
"The reason we did this is a direct result of the shutdown," he included. "We need to ensure that everything is correct, so we conveyed, we got this."
Around 800,000 federal employees - including a significant part of the White House home staff - have been on obligatory leave or working without pay for 24 days as Donald Trump and Congress wrangle over financing for a divider on the southern outskirt.