{"id":196106,"date":"2026-04-13T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:49:21","slug":"trump-tips-doordash-driver-100-for-mcdonalds-delivery-at-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196106\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tips DoorDash driver $100 for McDonald&#8217;s delivery at Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-news\/trump-admin-live-updates-april-13-14-15-16-17-18-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">President Trump tipped a DoorDash driver<\/a>\u00a0with a $100 bill after she delivered two bags of McDonald\u2019s to the Oval Office Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The worker,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.doordash.com\/en-us\/news\/dasher-visits-white-house-to-celebrate-no-tax-on-tips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">identified by the company as Sharon Simmons<\/a>,\u00a0handed\u00a0Trump\u2019s favored fast food to the commander-in-chief on the colonnade outside the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t look staged,\u201d joked the president, who used the delivery to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/30m-take-advantage-of-no-tax-on-tips-overtime-bessent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">promote his \u201cno tax on tips\u201d initiative\u00a0<\/a>with the 2025 filing deadline\u00a0two days away\u00a0for most Americans .<\/p>\n<p>DoorDash driver delivered President Trump an order of McDonald\u2019s at the Oval Office on April 13, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump tipped Simmons $100 for the lunch order. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe no tax on tips is something special. It\u2019s very special,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if\u00a0Simmons\u00a0got a good tip, the president reached into his pocket, pulled out the Benjamin and handed it to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, sporting a red t-shirt reading \u201cDoorDash Grandma\u201d told the president his delivery order contained \u201cyour favorites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bags were filled with cheeseburgers and fries, the White House said, adding that \u201cthe food was graciously delivered by the President to his West Wing staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said previously that his favorite meals from the Golden Arches include the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, Big Macs, french fries, and a chocolate shake.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump famously served french fries and worked the drive-thru of a franchise in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>The McDonald\u2019s order was done to promote Trump\u2019s \u201cno taxes on tips\u201d initiative. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been photographed eating McDonald\u2019s on his campaign plane, and in 2019 \u2013 during his first term in office \u2013 he served McDonald\u2019s, Wendy\u2019s and Burger King to members of the college football national champion Clemson Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas native Simmons, a grandmother of 10, used the $11,000 she made in tips last year to support her family. She joined\u00a0DoorDash\u00a0in 2022, the company said, and since then, she\u2019s completed more than 14,000 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0the\u00a0delivery was complete, the president invited Simmons into the Oval Office for a look around.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump receives his McDonald\u2019s order from DoorDash. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d exempted up to $25,000 in tipped income from taxation for individuals earning less than $150,000 annually. Payroll taxes still apply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also gave a tax break on overtime pay for 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0President Trump tipped a DoorDash driver\u00a0with a $100 bill after she delivered two bags of McDonald\u2019s to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,341,23794,9,11,10,87,31677,58,5561],"class_list":{"0":"post-196106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-doordash","10":"tag-mcdonalds","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-tipping","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}