Trump's Fast Food Feast Is Genius

The Gillette Ad, Speech Act Theory, and Fear of God

Well, right a couple of topics this morning actually both of them have to do with marketing and advertisements. First one's obviously the Gillette thing as you might be. Yeah, I saw a lot of people that were you know, making fun of the the Gillette ad and they said hey, you know.

Just a protest. I'm not gonna shave anymore. And these are people that have no need to shave at all. But as you can probably assume razors are the big part of my life. I mean Fact that Gillette is not something I can use anymore is really.

Anyway, no, I thought the Gillette ad wasn't actually that terrible in and of itself. I'm starting to learn how to apply some of this speech act theory, you know, it's not really what the words say. It's really more about what the words Do.

No, but but but here's the thing. I think a lot of people were offended by this. I was not offended by this ad. I thought it was a stupid ad. Don't get me wrong. I don't think it's a good business move To make an ad like this, but it but it wasn't terrible.

I mean what it actually said was that you know, men can behave well, I Mean, this is not shocking. This is not something that we've learned recently or things like that I you hear you hear people on Twitter and stuff.

We need to teach our boys not to rape. I mean like do you honestly think most most men are just like telling their sons like hey, you know, guess what son? I mean if you just want you just take it, you know, nobody's doing that.

My goodness gracious people don't rape because they weren't taught not to rape people rape because they don't have any fear of God. That's why they read they they have no fear of God and they just do whatever the heck they want to do.

That's why they do this kind of stuff. I mean by the way, that's the same reason that women do bad stuff as well. It's not because of toxic feminine toxic femininity. It's not because of anything like that.

It's because they don't care about what God says and they just want to do whatever they want to do. So I thought it was a stupid advertisement it. If you don't understand why people are upset about it, by the way I mean you should really do a little bit more self-reflection because even if I'm not offended but I clearly understand why people are offended it kind of buys into this idea that There's something in the way that we teach men that that's really the problem and and you know We just learned recently that that that raping and pillaging is wrong and things like that.

Look, this is the reality is and men have been doing this kind of stuff all along and oh and by the way. You know when you fight with your brother when you're a toddler, that's actually not toxic masculinity.

That's something that sinners do and men have been teaching their sons that maybe you shouldn't do that ever since the dawn of freaking time. Anyway, so that was a stupid advertisement. It's clearly good.

They had to know it was gonna make people upset and you know, look, I don't even know if what kind of razors I buy I don't look at the The Brand I just buy like the cheapest razors that have enough of the little soft stuff that it won't cut my head.

That's all I do. So and by the way, that's what most men do. So again, I don't know. So here's the thing. So there's that Gillette Advertisement really stupid. You know if you again if you don't know why people are upset about this if you really don't I think a lot of people Are pretending they don't know but they really do know.

Then you know, I really suggest talking to someone about it instead of just ranting and raving on Twitter anyway. The other advertisement that I thought was excellent Was from Donald J. Trump president Donald J. Trump.

Trump’s Clemson Fast-Food Feast as a Pro-Capitalist Advertisement

I should say, you know this man if I'll tell you right now. Like I said yesterday. I didn't vote for him and I probably never would but man is he making it tough. He's making it tough. He's doing all the right things hitting all the right notes yesterday.

You may have seen people raging about the fact that he bought the Clemson football team a bunch of fast food, you know, McDonald's Wendy's all that kind of stuff and Saying how that I don't know really what the complaints were.

Who cares Clemson Tigers and.

They had a fantastic game against Alabama. And they're all here. They're right outside the room. And I think we're gonna let you see them, but I'll bet you as much food as we have. We have pizzas we have 300 hamburgers many many french fries.

All of our favorite foods. I want to see what's here while we leave because I don't think it's gonna be much. The reason we did this is because of the shutdown. We want to make sure that everything is right.

So we sent out we got this and We have some wonderful people working at the White House. They helped us out with this and I will say the Republicans are really really sticking Together. It's great to see because we need border security.

We have to have it.

We have to have it. No doubt about it. So I had a choice.

Do we have no food for you because we have a shutdown or do we give you some little quick salads? That the first lady will make along with. Along with the second lady. They'll make some salads and I said you guys aren't into salads or do I go out.

Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott do I go out and Send out for about 1 ,000 hamburgers. So we actually we bought a thousand Burger King all-america companies Burger King Wendy's and McDonald's. We have Big Macs.

We have quarter pounders with cheese. We have everything that I like that you like. And I know no matter what we did. There's nothing you could have that's better than that, right?

I gotta tell you right now That makes me want to vote for him. I'm serious I'm not I'm not even really joking at least not all the way joking that that this man is is is. He's a genius. I mean let's in many ways He's a genius so that that move was fantastic and I think a lot of liberals don't get it.

Why do people like this move? Why is buying? You know $3 ,000 worth of McDonald's for a football team. Why is that something that people like why do why did he do it? They don't people don't understand.

I think this is why liberals are Completely out of touch with reality because Barack Obama he ate arugula salads. You know I mean and and and and and Trump is over here eating french fries and Big Macs.

And they don't understand that so here's the thing you know when you're on high and you're in your hoity-toity little Fantasy universe like a lot of liberals are they're in their fantasy universe. You don't get this move now.

There's he could not have done anything more American than what he did more Pro-capitalism than what he did because when you think about it the Big Mac is a miracle of capitalism. And I'm serious a Big Mac is a miracle of capitalism to have all these different Sources of foods and things like that come together into this delicious sandwich.

Which let's just be honest most normal people find this delicious. They enjoy eating fast food. I enjoy eating fast food. I haven't had real fast food in many months. But I got to tell you every now and then I get a hankering for something like a Big Mac.

And I think it all comes together anything an affordable price. I mean for a long time you could get a double cheeseburger for $1 for $1 that is a miracle of Capitalism if you ever wanted to know why capitalism is good you can get a pretty balanced meal meat vegetables bread all that stuff for $1.

Now here's the thing though. Because common people are the people who eat McDonald's and Wendy's and Burger King and things like that everyday people like you and me. Common people don't even know what arugula is much less have had an arugula salad you see what I'm saying and so so so if you don't understand why people would consider a Fast food feast a little bit of a treat.

Then you you don't understand why Trump is popular and and and I don't look I don't care if you understand why Trump is popular. In fact, I prefer you don't not find out so you don't emulate it. But the reality is that that he's a hundred percent right people like eating this kind of food normal people.

Everyday folks like you and me this is a treat for them and you know what? Poor people like eating this kind of food. This is a treat for poor people sometimes. You know and and and you have you know you can you can even if you don't have a lot of money you can afford a double cheeseburger a Side of fries and things like that and and to be honest that that when he said it all up there.

He had a mountains of Big Macs and Wendy's and things like that french fries tons of fries. I was like that was a classic line tons of fries. When you do that kind of stuff that appeals to people that that's actually looks like a good time to a lot of people.

And you might think that's sad you might have pity on them. Well, you know and the reality is if that's you who's thinking though. That's that's really pathetic that a bunch of poor people want to eat Big Mac.

You know what? That's why you're gonna lose in 2020 as well because you're just completely out of touch with what common folk like to do and here. And here's the reality. It wasn't just the Big Mac. Did you notice that the Big Macs were served being served in the White House on?

Probably very expensive dinnerware plates and trays and things like that. Could there be a better symbol of American capitalism because at the on the one hand it's a miracle of capitalism that you can get a Big Mac for so cheap a Double cheeseburger or a McChicken for so cheap and you can eat pretty well.

For very cheap and even the poor in the United States in a capitalistic Freedom based country even the poor people have a standard of living that just 50 years ago would have been unheard of. I mean that that's an that's an amazing feature of capitalism.

You look to you know, communistic and socialistic countries and they don't have that same situation. You know many of the people that we might consider Lower class or poor middle class actually have higher standards of living than many of the people that would be higher class in some of those areas but at the same time.

Capitalism also leads for you know. If you're successful to have the kind of luxuries like that like those plates and things like that. I mean this is if you don't think that that was an intentional image.

That Donald Trump and his team was trying to put forward then you don't understand. What this is all about you do not get the genius of Donald Trump and you know again He's exactly right. This is we all love to eat this food when he said that what he meant was common people.

Americans like to eat this food. This is an American thing and he's a hundred percent, right? Americans love to eat fast food whether or not that's a smart decision whether or not that's healthy or not.

That's not the point. The point is he's tapping into something that Americans love common people love and people like that kind of thing I like that kind of thing because I'll tell you right now. I couldn't imagine in a million years some of these hoity-toity.

You know analysts and things like that doing something like that for people. Spending $3 ,000 on fast food for a team that he knew was going to enjoy it and they did enjoy it. All while and this is why I call it an advertisement all while insisting that we have to have border security.

That was an advertisement and I got to be honest with you. It was an effective advertisement. Look, this is just a normal guy doing normal guy things and He's a rich guy as well. I mean not many of us could spend $3 ,000 trying to feed of our own money trying to feed a football team.

All while he's saying look this isn't that crazy all we need is border security we have to have it. We have to have it. It just sounds so normal when he says it whether or not you agree with his border security.

That was an effective Advertisement yesterday. Oh, yeah, you're gonna shut down the government. Well, guess what? I don't take a salary from the government I will pay my own way. And by the way, let's have border security and we can end this shutdown right now.

Private-Sector Reality, Missed Paychecks, and Government Dependence

Anyway, I hope this is helpful. God bless. Oh. One more bonus thing by the way.

I know I feel bad for for people who are who are not making money right now and her not getting their paychecks and things. Like that, but the reality is people in the private sector. We miss paychecks all the time.

I mean they look look talk talk to a talk to a friend who owns a business or who provides a service to companies. I mean we get paid we get our invoices paid late or not at all all the time. This happens as part of doing business.

And so people in the private sector, you know, this happens to oh. We you know, we we we lose business and we we have a harder time gaining business when tax rates are increased and things like that. So I got to be honest with you like I do feel bad for these people who are not used to missing paychecks.

But the reality is most Americans miss paychecks and gets and then their business suffers and their salaries suffer because of what the government does. Constantly and so I feel sorry for you. But the reality is it's it's welcome to reality.

This is this is reality I would suggest probably finding a better job a different job where you're not relying on the government. Which is going to be if look the government cannot pay its own way for very much longer.

So I would suggest making plans now because this kind of thing is going to happen more and more and more. Anyway, that was just a free piece of advice.