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Donald Trump’s well-known marketing campaign slogan collided along with his love of quick meals as the previous president promised to make McDonald’s ice cream machines “work great again.”

The former president took to his Truth Social platform on Saturday evening with a submit that performed off a well-liked meme that the franchise’s desert-making tools is regularly out of fee.

“WHEN I’M PRESIDENT THE MCDONALD’S ICE CREAM MACHINES WILL WORK GREAT AGAIN!” Trump declared.

The submit additionally featured a picture of a smiling President Joe Biden sporting a MAGA hat and holding a big ice cream cone.

The submit was properly acquired, garnering greater than 150,000 likes on X inside an hour.

One person replied: “Bro you already had my vote but now I’m gonna take a few people with me to vote just because of this post.”

Others have been much less enthused, with one other person replying: “Kamala is literally gonna start shaking in fear if she reads this.”

The submit comes as Trump continues to journey excessive on his current marketing campaign stunt of pretending to work behind the fry station at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania. He has constantly referred to the staged occasion at his rallies since.

The former president — a longtime McDonald’s buyer who even fed faculty soccer gamers meals from the restaurant on the White House in 2019 — spent roughly half-hour making French fries and greeting clients at a drive-thru window in an try to indicate up Kamala Harris, who Trump claims with out proof is mendacity about working at a McDonald’s restaurant whereas in faculty.

Harris labored at a McDonald’s in Alameda in 1983 throughout the summer season after her freshman 12 months at Howard University, in line with Harris and her marketing campaign.

“Though we are not a political brand, we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches,” the corporate despatched in a message to staff after Trump’s marketing campaign stunt. “While we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early ’80s, what makes ‘1 in 8’ so powerful is the shared experience so many Americans have had.”

At his Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, Trump proudly repeated his declare that the stunt had been so profitable that he had been contacted by the pinnacle of Google — Sundar Pichai — who had congratulated him on his “monster” occasion.

“I actually got a call from Sundar … the head of Google and he said, ‘sir, I just want to tell you what you did with McDonald’s was one of the single biggest events we’ve ever had at Google,’” he told the crowd.

The former president also baselessly claimed that 29,000 supporters surrounded the restaurant while he cooked, telling crowds in Las Vegas: “We weren’t certain if we have been capable of get out.”

Social media customers have been fast to level out that though massive crowds did line the encircling streets of the Feasterville-Trevose restaurant, the Republican nominee’s numbers seemed to be inflated.

“For context around this obvious lie, that McDonald’s is in Feasterville-Trevose, PA which has a total population of 24,657,” one individual mentioned on X.

Trump’s love of the Golden Arches is properly documented, along with his son Donald Jr just lately claiming — in an uncommon flex — that his father knew the McDonald’s menu higher than Harris did.

However, regardless of Trump’s positivity over the occasion, the stunt might have been sadly timed, with reviews of a extreme E coli outbreak linked to the chain’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers.

According to the meals security alert issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on October 22, one individual died and 49 individuals have been left sick throughout 10 totally different states on account of the outbreak.