--- title: Trump Serves College Athletes Fast Food Spread Again description: Less than two months after serving the Clemson football team fast food during their visit to the White House, Trump is back at it again. canonical: https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-03-04T18:37:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:51.876Z og:title: Trump Serves College Athletes Fast Food Spread Again og:description: The president is back at it og:url: https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt499a955673c71742/6989462adb29872e96261eed/donald-trump-fast-food.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Donald-Trump-Fast-Food og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Serves College Athletes Fast Food Spread Again twitter:description: The president is back at it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt499a955673c71742/6989462adb29872e96261eed/donald-trump-fast-food.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Serves College Athletes a Whole Fast Food Spread Again > Sponsored content. 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Tasos Katopodis—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 4, 2019 6:37 PM UTC Less than two months after his decision to [serve the Clemson University football team fast food](http://time.com/5502838/trump-clemson-football/) during their visit to the White House sparked a social media firestorm, [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5542925/house-judiciary-committee-trump-documents-request/) is back at it again. When North Dakota State University’s football players arrived at the [White House](http://time.com/5537033/donald-trump-alva-johnson/) on Monday to celebrate winning the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision, they were reportedly greeted with a spread of McDonald’s and Chick-Fil-A. The Bison defeated the Eastern Washington Eagles 38-24 on Jan. 5 to take home the FCS title for the seventh time in eight seasons. > [](https://twitter.com/Laura%5FFigueroa/status/1102618121356087296) > [](https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1102618418841374725) However, Trump’s fast food offering is apparently just the first course of the Bisons’ big day in D.C. According to the [_Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/03/04/trump-meets-with-north-dakota-state-football-champions-wont-feed-them-fast-food/?noredirect=on&utm%5Fterm=.08a20afeb2a5), the team is set to dine on a more formal lunch at the Capitol after leaving the White House. > [](https://twitter.com/NDSUfootball/status/1102557688054140928) > [](https://twitter.com/NDSUfootball/status/1102602803325923329) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/"},"headline":"Trump Serves College Athletes a Whole Fast Food Spread Again","datePublished":"2019-03-04T18:37:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:51.876Z","description":"The president is back at it","url":"https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt499a955673c71742/6989462adb29872e96261eed/donald-trump-fast-food.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt499a955673c71742/6989462adb29872e96261eed/donald-trump-fast-food.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald-Trump-Fast-Food","caption":"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. on Saturday, March 2, 2019.","creditText":"Tasos Katopodis—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/","name":"Trump Serves College Athletes a Whole Fast Food Spread Again"}}]}] ```