Trump displays steak, water, wine to defend business record
(AP) — After winning the day's two biggest prizes in the Republican race for president, Donald Trump was in the mood to celebrate.
The front-runner for the GOP nomination wanted to celebrate his skill selling things to eat and drink, among other things, defending business ventures that have increasingly come under attack in ads and in debates.
Before Trump's arrival at a news conference at his golf course in Jupiter, Florida, club staff set up displays of Trump-branded products on either side of his podium.
There were bottles of Trump red, white and rose wine, cases of Trump water and two butcher blocks heaping with stacks of giant, well-marbled "Trump Steaks."
[...] it wasn't long after Trump started that he moved past Tuesday night's election results and began to focus on the foodstuffs on display.
Trump was referring to a scathing speech delivered last week by 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who sought to undermine Trump's success in this year's campaign by outlining what he called the billionaire's business failures.
Romney didn't make reference to Trump's defunct bottled water company, Trump Ice, in his remarks.
A spokeswoman for Trump's campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment, but the labels on the steaks displayed Tuesday night appeared to match those of a company called Bush Brothers.