Teddy Roosevelt dedicated his life to using the power of the federal government to lift up his fellow man. He loved a good scrap — but he would have hated watching billionaires (and one trillionaire) throw a party on the people's lawn.
Commercial advertising, product placements, and corporate-sponsored promotions are explicitly prohibited on national parklands. The White House lawn is a unit of the National Park System. It also violates standard Anti-Vending and Solicitation Laws as well as misuse of public funds and government endorsement ethics. Everything this administration does spits in the face of our laws. Everything is a grift.
Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago and him describing Waffle House is still the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.