{"id":71723,"date":"2026-04-14T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/trumps-doordash-grandma-had-previously-lobbied-for-the-president-setting-off-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:55:58","slug":"trumps-doordash-grandma-had-previously-lobbied-for-the-president-setting-off-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/trumps-doordash-grandma-had-previously-lobbied-for-the-president-setting-off-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018DoorDash grandma\u2019 had previously lobbied for the president, setting off controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Simmons, photographed delivering McDonald\u2019s to Trump on Monday, lobbied for the \u2018no tax on tips\u2019 policy in 2025<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DoorDash delivery driver who had a turn in the national spotlight on Monday by bringing a fast-food order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> at the White House has publicly touted the president\u2019s so-called \u201cno tax on tips\u201d policy before \u2013 causing some to question the encounter\u2019s authenticity and the company to confirm it was a stunt.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Simmons had lobbied in July 2025 in favor of the policy, which DoorDash supports, testifying in Congress that she was based in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nevada\">Nevada<\/a> and driving for the delivery platform because her husband\u2019s cancer treatments had made it difficult to make ends meet otherwise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/trump-doordash-delivery-grandma-mcdonalds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Simmons, photographed delivering McDonald\u2019s to Trump on Monday, lobbied for the \u2018no tax on tips\u2019 policy in 2025 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The DoorDash delivery driver who had a turn in the national spotlight on Monday by bringing a fast-food order to Donald &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s \u2018DoorDash grandma\u2019 had previously lobbied for the president, setting off controversy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/trumps-doordash-grandma-had-previously-lobbied-for-the-president-setting-off-controversy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s \u2018DoorDash grandma\u2019 had previously lobbied for the president, setting off controversy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}