PARTY-POOPING UPDATE: The sunny-side-up feast has been flagged as FAKE NEWS.
We’re nearly halfway into 2019 and the 2020 presidential race is already heating up with [slides beads around on the abacus] approximately 56 Democratic contenders vying for the nomination. Hopefully, they can work it out with the least amount of drama possible however, because President Donald Trump’s ardent base continues to be unwavering in their support for the former reality star.
Case in point, on Wednesday morning Fox News moseyed on over to Johnny V’s Classic Cafe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — an establishment that apparently serves a “Robert E Lee Special” — to chat with Trump supporters about next year’s election. To little surprise, the thing that seems to universally rile them up is the threat of socialism.
“It’s totally ridiculous,” said a Trump hat-wearing retired truck driver named Johnny. “They’re promising people everything; free this, free that, free this, free that. And in actuality if you sit down and look at it, that’s buying votes.”
A still from the interview was caught by Media Matters reporter Bobby Lewis, but something else caught the attention of people — namely the massive plate of fried eggs on homeboy’s plate, accompanied by a large glass of soda, naturally, at 6:30 in the morning.
"it's totally ridiculous. they're promising people everything; free this, free that, free this, free that. and in actuality if you sit down and look at it, that's buying votes." pic.twitter.com/j7TZMlJmqp
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019
Vox journalist Aaron Rupar also grabbed a video clip (in which Johnny says he doesn’t give “a rear end” about Trump’s tax returns) for a better view of the breakfast plate:
Holy crap! Check out how many eggs this Trump fan had on his plate during an interview with Fox & Friends at a Milwaukee diner pic.twitter.com/X8OFusIv6z
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2019
he was too busy raving about the socialists buying votes that i didn't even notice he literally has a whole-ass carton of eggs on his plate https://t.co/HPZ4glQvOk
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 8, 2019
Politics aside, that is so many eggs! The clip soon went viral as people tried to wrap their heads around such a perplexing amount of eggs.
sure he's eating 10 fried eggs and a soda for breakfast but I'm most surprised this guy doesn't find it disrespectful to sit at a table with your hat on https://t.co/W3xBVMKZyB
— maura quint (@behindyourback) May 8, 2019
Fox News is interviewing a man who is eating ten eggs this morning. https://t.co/Do2548O2Jr
— Arlen Parsa (@arlenparsa) May 8, 2019
lmao soooo many eggs https://t.co/2WikiwsqdF
— feeno (@ArianFoster) May 8, 2019
https://twitter.com/libbyanelson/status/1126136783186665473
https://twitter.com/libbyanelson/status/1126138489605636096
https://twitter.com/BrianPHickey/status/1126117224538939392
https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1126118051106177026
https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/1126135368007540736
And then to add an additional layer of hilarity, this happened:
Sorry, I can’t stop laughing at the 27 goddamn eggs on his plate https://t.co/YzMJgnDdZF
— spilly (@IAmSpilly) May 8, 2019
— spilly (@IAmSpilly) May 8, 2019
Great day for eggs, bad day for Ben Shapiro.