Donald Trump Waving From McDonald's Drive-Thru

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Donald Trump Waving From McDonald's Drive-Trhu refers to a viral photograph of the United States presidential candidate Donald Trump waving from the drive-trhu window of a McDonald's restaurant during his October 2024 photo op at a McDonald's location in Pennsylvania. Following the photo op, the photograph saw viral spread online as it was used as source material for various memes, most notably edits that added various customers to the picture.

Origin

On October 20th, 2024, the United States presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump took part in a photo op at a McDonald's restaurant in Featerville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. During the photo op, Trump worked the fries station and served drive-thru orders. On that day, a photograph of Donald Trump waving from the drive-trhu window, taken by an unknown photographer, was shared on Donald J. Trump's official website^[1] and by several X^[2][3] accounts, including @LaCivitaC and @TeamTrump. The latter post garnered over 770 reposts and 5,100 likes in two days.

Spread

On October 20th and 21st, the photograph saw viral spread on X and other social media. On that day, Instagram^[4] account realdonaldtrump posted the photograph, with the post gaining over 1.3 million likes in two days. Later that day, X^[5] user @L0m3z posted the cropped image with a humorous You're Finally Awake caption (shown below). The post received over 810 reposts and 13,000 likes in one day.

On October 21st, 2024, multiple edits of the photograph were shared online. For example, X^[6] user @BigDickBarclay edited in the family from the Japanese McDonald's Ad with a caption referencing Trump's friendship with Shinzo Abe. The post (shown below) received over 4,200 reposts and 50,000 likes in one day.

Multiple caption memes and edits based on the photograph were circulated on X / Twitter in the days following the photo op.

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