Trump’s Weird DoorDash Stunt Backfires
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The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Egger and Catherine Rampell break down Donald Trump’s bizarre McDonald’s DoorDash photo op at the White House, meant to highlight his “no tax on tips” policy. What starts as an economic messaging push quickly goes off the rails when Trump presses a DoorDash driver on her vote and veers into culture war territory. They also dig into what Democrats can learn from this kind of populist messaging and the risks of trying to copy it without losing the plot on good policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, this is Andrew Egger with the bulwark. |
| 0:01.9 | I am here with our economics reporter, Catherine Rampel, to talk about an interesting PR stunt that we got from Donald Trump at the White House today when he ordered McDonald's DoorDash to the White House. |
| 0:18.1 | Nice to see you. Nice to meet you. I took your DoorDash. You want to see you. |
| 0:21.1 | Nice to meet you. |
| 0:22.6 | I took a new door to inform you. |
| 0:24.6 | That's right now. |
| 0:26.6 | Look at this. |
| 0:27.6 | It doesn't look stage. |
| 0:29.6 | It doesn't. |
| 0:30.6 | Not necessarily the easiest place to drive up to under ordinary circumstances, |
| 0:33.6 | but they made a little exception here for a strange, basically, hey, remember |
| 0:40.2 | when we passed that one big beautiful bill and got rid of no tax on tips last year? |
| 0:44.8 | It wasn't that great. |
| 0:46.0 | Didn't we have a lot of good feelings around that time? |
| 0:48.9 | Sort of stunt for everybody. |
| 0:50.2 | So let's, Catherine, before we play a couple clips from this here, um, what was your, |
| 0:55.0 | what was your kind of general take on, uh, I mean, can you maybe like roll back a little bit |
| 0:59.4 | of, uh, of, of, uh, of the history of, of what's going on with, with the no tax on tips |
| 1:05.0 | stuff that's happening in America right now? |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | So the one big beautiful bill included a tax carve out for tip-related income. This |
| 1:15.4 | was something that actually had gotten some bipartisan support in the past. I believe Kamala Harris |
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