Someone From McDonald's Tweeted That Trump Is "A Disgusting Excuse Of A President"
The tweet, which was up for about 20 minutes, was later deleted.
By Sadho Ram — 17 Mar 2017, 02:46 AM
What you see above is, in fact, a real tweet that denigrated President Donald Trump. It was sent from the McDonald's corporate Twitter account yesterday and, in a bold move, was also pinned to the top of the company's Twitter page.
at first i thought this was your classic "employee mistakenly tweets from corporate account" scenario. then McDonalds pinned the tweet pic.twitter.com/B9qj9HzXnm
— Nate Goldman (@NateGoldman) March 16, 2017
The tweet was up for about 20 minutes only, but it was enough to be liked and retweeted over a thousand times.
The tweet was greeted with delight from several users:
Wow, McDonalds got beef. pic.twitter.com/db0Uhxo58k
— Jon Ironmonger (@JonIronmonger) March 16, 2017
WENDY'S: Haha, totally roasted this guy on here for forgetting refrigerators exist. So edgy.
— Aaron Sankin (@ASankin) March 16, 2017
MCDONALD'S: Hold my beer pic.twitter.com/Qc28ixMuzE
While people wondered whether it was the work of a hacker or a disgruntled employee, about an hour after the incident, McDonald's said that its account "was compromised"
Twitter notified us that our account was compromised. We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this.
— McDonald's (@McDonaldsCorp) March 16, 2017
President Trump is a McDonald's fan. In fact, when he won the Republican party's Presidential nomination, he celebrated with a McDonald's meal on his plane: