McDonald's tweeted Trump is disgusting - and everyone's lovin' it
McDonald’s is bland, unimaginative and not really your health’s best friend. Alas, the world however chooses to not acknowledge any of this and continues to eat at McDonald’s like it’s the King’s Feast. But even those getting served fried lizards at the international fast food joint may just find it a little easier to digest McDonald’s swill, in light of the company’s alleged stance on the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.
A tweet from the company’s official Twitter account directed towards Trump read, “You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have Barack Obama back. Also you have tiny hands”.
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It is worth noting just how bad and disgusting one has to be, to get called out by McDonald’s. It’s almost like KRK calling you a bad actor, or Salman Khan calling you a bad driver. Unfortunately for the world, McDonald’s deleted the tweet and chose to distance itself from this incident.
Terri Hickey, a spokesperson for McDonald’s, said: “Twitter notified us that our account was compromised. We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this.”
"Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source. We took swift action to secure it, and we apologise this tweet was sent through our corporate McDonald's account,” she added.
But hacked or not, it was a pretty epic tweet, and people on Twitter completely lost it.
me: dont go to mcdonald's, it's disgusting and unhealthy.mcdonald's:me: pic.twitter.com/azJJT3Mbx8
— dead boyfriend (@unsmokabIe) March 16, 2017
me: i hate mcdonalds. Their food is disgusting *sees this tweet*me; pic.twitter.com/cNwxtpUFgz
— ㅤ (@lmjedebnam) March 16, 2017
OBAMA'S PRESS SECRETARY IS COMMUNICATIONS DIR FOR MCDONALDS. HE'S IN CHARGE OF TWITTER #MCDelections2017 #McDonald #McDonaldsTweet #MAGA pic.twitter.com/nwWcD0xpkl
— Ted Hooley (@ed_hooley) March 17, 2017
I like to think that @McDonalds found out about that tweet and then waited juuuuust a couple more minutes before they took it down.
— Anders Holm (@ders808) March 16, 2017
@domjoly If Trump supporters decide to boycott McDonalds because of that antiTrump tweet, they will starve to death
— Ryan Lucas (@Fruffnee) March 16, 2017
Me: I hate McDonalds. It's disgusting and unhealthy.*sees McDonald's tweet*Me: pic.twitter.com/oYeF0Ziz6p
— Connor (@rconnore) March 16, 2017
McDonalds is still an evil capitalist empire but 1) the fries lit 2) the tweet against Trump is lit.????????????
— Trudy (@thetrudz) March 16, 2017
Pretty sure Trump telling everyone to boycott McDonalds might be a better healthcare plan than the AHCA. #zing
— Derek Dye (@voterdye) March 16, 2017
LMAO I NEED TO SEE AMERICANS TRYING TO BOYCOTT MCDONALDS pic.twitter.com/GUK1zNK9WQ
— Jess (@ZetsuboNigga) March 16, 2017
Despite their claims that they were hacked, and had nothing to do with this hilarious tweet, a lot of people have pointed out that the circumstances seem a little too coincidental. Robert Lane Gibbs, who is the executive vice-president and global chief communications officer of McDonald's, has served as White House press secretary during the first term of the Obama administration.
Suspicious much? Definitely.
But even if conspiracy theories don’t hold up, this is not the first time Trump would be at the receiving end of retaliation from a corporate giant. Trump’s Muslim ban had received the largest backlash from corporate America, where companies as big as Apple, Facebook, Adobe and many more called out the president’s lunatic move.
And while all of those companies justly criticised the president and called him out, none of them made a remark as epic as “also you have tiny hands”.