http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/02/a-forensic-analysis-of-donald-trumps-kentucky-fried-chicken-picture/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_naBy Chris Cillizza August 2 at 10:47 AM
Donald Trump likes Twitter. You may know this. He uses Twitter to drive news cycles, respond to “haters” and, occasionally, to document what he is eating.
Late Monday night, Trump gave us a food tweet — and it was glorious.
This photo contains multitudes. Let's dig in.
* The KFC bucket. Trump is eating a BIG bucket of fried chicken. A quick search of the KFC website leads me to believe what Trump has there is a “$20 Fill-Up.” Here's what that gets you:
He may have already eaten the biscuits. Or pawned them off to someone else. But that bucket looks like it could hold “8 pieces of crunchy, Extra Crispy chicken.” And that definitely looks like a large mashed potatoes and gravy next to it. As for whether the meal effectively kept “those friends feeling satisfied,” we can only speculate.
* The Journal. Trump, not surprisingly, is reading — or at least possesses — the Wall Street Journal, the default newspaper of the business world. I like to think the white paper obscured by the Journal is a printout of Fix posts.
* The letter on the table. If you look to the left of the Journal, there is a piece of paper with text on it. It's the one with the KFC bucket and pepper shaker sitting on it. Here's a closer look.
That letter — and I owe Philip Bump for figuring this one out — is the one Senate Democrats sent to President Obama urging him to accept more Syrian refugees into the United States. Here's the full letter. Trump has seized on the letter as evidence that Democrats want to allow a flood of Syrians into the country and will do it with a Democrat in the White House in 2017.
* Talking points? Look closely at Trump's left breast pocket. There's a folded piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper peeking out. Here's the close-up.
TrumpKFC_Pocket
The words look upside down. And if you can make out any of them, you have WAY better eyesight than me. So, I am speculating these are Trump talking points — hastily stuffed in a jacket pocket after concluding his remarks in Pennsylvania.
