DoorDash PR chief hammered after company accused of staging pro-Trump stunt: 'Crash out' [View all]

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DoorDash PR chief hammered after company accused of staging pro-Trump stunt: 'Crash out'

Alexander Willis
April 14, 2026 12:19PM ET

Julian Crowley, the head of public affairs for the online food delivery service DoorDash, made dozens of social media posts Monday after critics accused the company of staging a pro-Trump stunt with the delivery of McDonald’s food to the White House, a posting spree that MeidasTouch’s co-founder Brett Meiselas described as a “crash out.”

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“It’s kinda hilarious that he thought DoorDash could do a photoshoot with a deeply unpopular president for a stupid policy with a fake employee ‘plant’ and that nobody would notice,” they wrote in a social media post on X to their nearly 60,000 followers.

And Brendan Keefe, the chief investigator for Atlanta News First, questioned why DoorDash felt compelled to use Simmons – who lives in Arkansas – over a local delivery driver.

“They flew her in from Arkansas. By her own account, it was her first time in DC. Put her in a marked DoorDash car with no license plate,” Keefe wrote to his more than 44,000 followers on X. “It was clearly a staged photo op – and an ad for a business – but why not use a real door-dasher from the area?”

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(Were there really hamburgers in the bag?)