Donald Trump's McDonald's Meal

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Category: Meme Status: Submission Year: 2016 Origin: Instagram Region:

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Tags: photoshop, trump, politics, election, republican, donald trump, mcdonalds, big mac, 2016 us presidential election,

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Donald Trump's McDonald's Meal is a photoshop meme based on a photograph of Donald Trump celebrating the acquisition of enough delegates to win the GOP presidential nomination in late May 2016.

Origin

On May 26th, 2016, Trump posted a photograph of himself eating a McDonald's burger and fries while aboard a plane with the caption "Celebrating 1237! #Trump2016" to his Instagram^[1] feed (shown below). Within four days, the post gained over 124,000 likes and 16,900 comments.

realdonaldtrump Follow 124k likes 4d realdonaldtrump Celebrating 1237! #Trump2016 view all 16,925 comments juliamnowak @ca.republican Trump is an untrustworthy, racist, misogynistic joke with little political experience or professionalism. He does not have qualities that would make for a good president of the United States and this country will become even more of a disaster under his leadership. sheru98 @minjun kim kitty409 Good job we need u in office the official_bobby_santiago I am Ronald McDonald Trump and I approve this message! thefuckinripper Trump for king

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That day, Redditor GoinFerARipEh posted the photo to the /r/photoshopbattles^[2] subreddit, where several users subsequently submitted photoshopped variations of the image (shown below).

The following day, the "Truth About Donald J. Trump" Facebook^[3] page posted a black-and-white photograph of 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan eating a McDonald's meal juxtaposed next to the Trump photo (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the photoshop meme, including UpRoxx,^[4] The Huffington Post,^[5] Metro,^[6] Daily Mail^[7] and AV Club.^[8]