The DoorDash corporate PR guy is melting down over criticism thrown at the delivery service company for participating in a stunt photo-op with Donald Trump.
“It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy starting,” was one of the responses attributed to a Julian Crowley, who identifies as a spokesperson for the gig-economy company.
“To claim Sharon is a prop, plant or an actor is totally wrong and off base. She is a Dasher, and she participated to support the policy that benefits her,” Crowley said.
The claim that this Sharon – a Sharon Simmons, from Arkansas, though she’s also said that she’s from Nevada and Missouri over the course of the past year – benefits from the No Tax on Tips policy is debatable, at best.
Simmons told Fox News Digital yesterday that the policy saves her “about $3,000 to $4,000,” but she later told Fox’s “America Reports” that she made about $11,000 in tips last year, comprising half of her income.
Quick, easy math there – she made $22,000 last year; the standard deduction on her federal income tax would be what saved her “about $3,000 to $4,000,” not the No Tax on Tips policy.
So, No Tax on Tips did nothing for this lady, who we also now know took part in a Republican-led congressional hearing on No Tax on Tips last year, talking up the benefits of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Days before her White House DoorDash, Simmons appeared in a video shared on social media by Missouri Republican Jason Smith presaging the comments she made before the cameras alongside the president.
Which, this is all well and good; if DoorDash wants to align its business with Trump and the MAGAs, that’s between them and their bottom line.
But not forseeing the backlash that would result, the shareholders will eventually have to weigh in on that, if half the consumer market – OK, more than half, anymore – figures out ways to not use the service going forward.
Pro tip here: going forward, if you want to make something actually bipartisan, have somebody from each of the political tribes at your event.
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