Former MGM Resorts executive Dominique Bertolone was appointed president of Brinker International chain Maggiano’s Little Italy. In addition to leading the Italian dining chain, Bertolone will become part of Brinker’s executive leadership team.
ryan lizza here in the situation room. is that true? it s a moment. here s a question. ready. the president said we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you ve ever season and president xi was enjoying it. he enjoyed it. you got the details on the chocolate cake? you know, i m pro chocolate cake and always get my wife to go to maggiano s for chocolate cake and my wife says it s bad for you and i don t need chocolate cake. if we re going to be a pro chocolate cake country then i m in. and the best gnocchi. the best chocolate cake ever, at mar-a-lago. it was a bizarre way to describe the moment. phil mudd, what s your thought on the chocolate cake? this is the situation room, wolf. we don t do dessert. let s get off the subject. the fact he s talking about chocolate cake and got the country wrong is a little bit concerning. this is phil mudd s point. he creates he s an
christmas? it is a made-up con flag ration of anger and vitriol for no reason. some people are happy with how some things turned out this year and that s fair enough, but 2017 could be a lot worse. it could be a lot worse than 2016. 2017 is the unknown. for the last eight years we went into the next year, we knew who the president was going to be, we kind of had an idea of what his politics were and where we all stood in the world. now in 2017 we re still dealing with hackers that hacked, you know, hillary clinton s e-mails. we are still dealing with was the election somehow fixed. we are still dealing with people say, hail trump at maggiano s, which i will never eat at again because when you put the words nazi and hail in the same sentence at the president of the united states, you lose faith in our government and politics. that s the scary part. i think people have lost faith, faith in the people that protect
than it is, because we found out the last couple years, that very unpredictable scary things can happen. i want to put this up, when you were talking about it, normalizing this, let s put up the tweet, this is from the restaurant where the group went to celebrate, maggiano s. this is a tweet from guests there. protesters followed the group, forcing the restaurant to shut down, and issue an apology. you can put the restaurant s apology up there, saying it was a last minute booking. they apologized for inadvertently hosting this meeting. this hateful sentiment. the thing is the question is, which i think you re on to it, is about this sort of thing becoming normalized and saying, what are you going to do, it s just a few people. it s on the fringe. i don t remember talking about this as a journalist. they re being normalized too.