Instead, Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican Army’s improbable 1862 victory over the far-better-armed French Forces at the Battle of Puebla, where they found themselves outnumbered 3-to-1.
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“This is really happening”, outfielder Dexter Fowler said over rapid-fire trumpeting.
“They’re gonna be deported”.
Malmaison DC and promotional partner IgniteDMV present a Cinco de Mayo Experience with a sangria bar, delicious food and desserts, stilt walkers, a mariachi band and a DJ. The former has become quite the festivity in the US, and Maddon’s Cubs are certainly a fun-loving bunch.
“I love Hispanics!” Trump wrote, above a photo of the grinning real estate tycoon holding a forkful of his meal, which he appeared to be eating at a desk.
“If you went to any bar tonight and said, ‘What’s this day about?’, they would be clueless, and you can’t blame the alcohol consumption either”, Tortolero told USA TODAY Network.
There’s something picture flawless about Donald Trump eating fake Mexican food to celebrate a fake Mexican holiday and proclaiming, with his fake tan and fake admiration for Mexico, that he loves Spanish-speaking people.
Trump posted a photo of himself, posing with the dish in his office at Trump Tower, to Twitter and Facebook Thursday afternoon.
Most people-especially in the US and Canada-have no clue that Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day.
His tweet, part-advertisement for a restaurant in the Trump Tower, part glib acknowledgement of a holiday celebrated by Mexican-Americans, drew quick condemnation on Twitter.
The dish before him, also known as a taco salad, with a flour tortilla shell, originated in the United States.
Chipotle even tweeted Trump.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Monday, May 2, 2016.
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And Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino American TV producer and writer, proposed an end to taco bowls altogether.
