The home delivery girl who delivered McDonald’s hamburgers to the President of the United States, Donald Trump, at the White House on Monday, is a grandmother of ten grandchildren who works to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment and campaigned in favor of the Republican proposal to eliminate the tip tax.
In a scene carefully prepared for television cameras, Sharon Simmons, 58arrived on the south lawn of the White House in a vehicle from the delivery company DoorDash and delivered three bags to the president at the door of the Oval Office.
The event was designed to promote Trump’s policy to eliminate tip taxes, and the president, who gave him a 100 dollar billjoked about the lack of spontaneity in the meeting: “This doesn’t seem planned.”
The White House later released a video of the moment, recorded with cameras installed even inside the delivery vehicle, which showed that everything had been prepared in detail.
The image went around the world thanks to the media and social networks, which asked who was that woman dressed in a red t-shirt with the motto “DoorDash Grandma”.
Although he made his most notable appearance at the presidential residence, Simmons lives hundreds of miles from Washington, in the southern state of Arkansas, a bastion of the Republican Party.
Simmons testified last year before a House committee in support of Trump’s proposal to eliminate tip taxes in the service sector, an initiative that was included in a major tax cut bill passed in July.
This fiscal policy would have allowed save about 11,000 dollars.
At the hearing, she explained that she has made more than 14,000 deliveries to help pay for her husband’s cancer treatment, who was diagnosed in 2025.
“Thanks to DoorDash offering me a really flexible schedule, I was able to accompany him during his treatments,” he said then. “During that time, every extra dollar I earned was more important than ever,” he said.
Delivery drivers on apps like Doordash work their own schedule, but lack job benefits such as health insurance.
On Monday, Simmons stood by the president as he spoke to reporters. about his tipping policy, the war in Iranhis criticism of Pope Leo XIV and the controversial image that Trump published on networks in which he appears to represent himself as Jesus Christ.
It’s unclear the extent of Simmons’ political support for Trump, as when the president asked her if she voted for him, she responded with a smiling “maybe.” Trump added, “I hear you’re a big fan. We appreciate that.”
But when the president asked her what she thought about the participation of trans athletes in women’s categories, something he opposes, she simply said that I had no opinion about it and that he was there for the tips without taxes.
Trump mentioned her husband’s cancer, and Simmons took the opportunity to announce that her husband is writing a book.
