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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

President Donald Trump interrupted his own scrambled attempt to elucidate his affordability pitch to talk about his favorite sandwich. "I like the fish," said a hoarser-than-usual Trump while speaking at the McDonald's National Impact Summit in Washington Monday night. He waved his hand and released a throaty hiss, ostensibly to mime the fish he liked. "I like it. You could do a little bit more tartar sauce though, please. Seriously. I hate when I say, Do you have any tartar sauce? Do you understand that? Yes, he understands that.'" Trump's latest weird attempt to tout the McDonald's brand in order to seem like a normal person comes just one week after McDonald's chief executive Christopher Kempczinski told investors that ballooning prices at the fast-food chain had caused traffic from low-income households to drop by double digits.

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The orange large barge hotfooting it to the McDonald's summit.

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#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-18 11:25 AM | Reply

"I like it. You could do a little bit more tartar sauce though, please. Seriously. I hate when I say, Do you have any tartar sauce? Do you understand that? Yes, he understands that.'"

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#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-18 11:27 AM | Reply

The US president has the best culinary staff at their disposal for anything they can think up to have prepared for them.

Nixon still liked his cottage cheese and ketchup.

George HW Bush was excoriated for not knowing about bar codes at supermarket checkouts because of his lack of connection with economic realities.

If Trump has achieved anything, he probably knows more about fast food menus than anyone even close to the low end of his alleged wealth. Bad fast food at that.

#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-18 03:01 PM | Reply

Funny story. Decades ago my late brother was at the Kentucky Derby and ended up chatting up one of the daughters of the Hunt brothers, big silver investors in Texas.

It came up in the conversation that father Hunt's favorite food was McDonald's.

My brother questioned later whether the young woman was really who she said she was, but received confirmation upon seeing a documentary where the Hunt brother McDonald's fascination was mentioned.

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-18 03:05 PM | Reply

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