A public relations rep might have to do even more PR to dig him out of a PR nightmare of his own creation.

DoorDash’s head of public affairs, Julian Crowley, had a bit of a crash out on X Monday while responding to backlash from his company’s PR stunt with President Donald Trump.

Earlier Monday, DoorDash driver Sharon Simmons, a grandmother from Arkansas, hand-delivered McDonald’s to the White House in a staged PR stunt during a press conference to promote Trump’s “no tax on tips” policy.

The White House said in a tweet promoting the moment that the policy helped Simmons save “$11,000 in the last year” and that this money will go toward medical bills for her husband, who has cancer.

The stunt came off as disingenuous, considering that the “no tax on tips” policy is part of the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which also made cuts to Medicaid and negatively impacted health care for a lot of Americans. It also begs the question whether Simmons’ job as a driver is affected by rising gas prices brought on by Trump’s Iran war.

But some critics felt the stunt was misleading for other reasons.

Lots of X users felt that the White House and DoorDash were promoting the interaction between Trump and Simmons as authentic. This is despite a crowd of reporters being on hand to film the whole thing, and Trump even joking during the stunt: “This doesn’t look staged, does it?”

Others took issue with a video that resurfaced on the platform that showed Simmons advocating for the “no tax on tips” policy at a GOP-backed event in Nevada in July 2025. Simmons began her testimony by saying she was a resident of Boulder City, Nevada — and not Arkansas — and how the policy would help her family.

This led to a slew of posts on X that claimed Simmons was “fake,” a “paid actor” a “plant” and “prop” for the Trump administration’s propaganda.

And although DoorDash published a press release confirming that the White House stunt was staged to “commemorate the first anniversary of the No Tax on Tips policy” — Crowley apparently felt the need to directly address some of these criticisms himself on X.

And, uh, it got kind of messy.

“No one is claiming it was a real delivery,” Crowley said in response to someone who said DoorDash was acting as though the stunt was “a real delivery.”

“It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy starting,” Crowley continued. “To claim Sharon is a prop, plant or an actor is totally wrong and off base. She is a Dasher and she participated to support the policy that benefits her.”

No one is claiming it was a real delivery. It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy starting. To claim Sharon is a prop, plant or an actor is totally wrong and off base. She is a Dasher and she participated to support the policy that benefits her

When a user retweeted the video of Simmons’ testimony last year in Nevada, Crowley responded with: “Is it really so hard to believe that the same person moved states and then participated in a special delivery to mark the policy she testified in support of?”

He then doubled down on the sass with another tweet aimed at the same user.

“I love a conspiracy as much as the next person but man you need to touch grass,” Crowley wrote.

I love a conspiracy as much as the next person but man you need to touch grass. It was a special delivery to mark a policy that has bipartisan support with the media in attendance.

In response to a user who said it “smells pretty funny” that Simmons was the “random” DoorDasher selected to deliver food to the president after her Trump-friendly testimony in Nevada, Crowley retorted with: “No you’re totally right. A person can’t have the same view on a policy that they had a year ago. That tracks.”

No you're totally right. A person can't have the same view on a policy that they had a year ago. That tracks

When one X user just wrote “F A K E” in regards to Simmons and Trump’s encounter, Crowley responded with: “P R E S S C O N F E R E N C E.”

P R E S S C O N F E R E N C E

Crowley felt so compelled to respond to everyone and anyone who claimed that the moment was fake or that Simmons was a paid actor that he just began to retweet the same response to any attack.

No - https://t.co/WWh3QsX4gC

No, she’s not. She just moved states and supports keeping more of what she earns in tips https://t.co/cgr5LEDG7l

https://t.co/cgr5LEDG7l

No, we're didn't https://t.co/WWh3QsX4gC

Perhaps the funniest instance in Crowley’s meltdown is that he even felt like he needed to correct Grok — X’s AI chat bot — after it claimed that “They’re two different women named Sharon, both DoorDash drivers” and one was featured in the White House stunt, and the other testified in Nevada.

“No @grok it’s the same Sharon. She lived in Nevada and moved to Arkansas. Still supports No Tax on Tips,” Crowley wrote.

No @grok it's the same Sharon. She lived in Nevada and moved to Arkansas. Still supports No Tax on Tips.

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