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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. In October 2024, photos of Donald Trump Working at McDonald's spread online after his photo op at a Pennsylvania location.

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.

Spread

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]

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