It would appear that fast-food giant McDonald’s tweeted out a message to President Donald Trump mocking his hand size and stating that they wished Barack Obama was President again.
The tweet was even pinned to the official McDonald’s twitter account, but was deleted a while later.
The tweet called Trump a “disgusting excuse of a President.”
oh my it’s even pinned pic.twitter.com/tGv6EdpZEm
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) March 16, 2017
The offensive tweet was quickly deleted with McDonald’s engaging in damage control, claiming their Twitter 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 Corporation (@McDonaldsCorp) March 16, 2017
We cannot verify whether the official McDonald’s account was in fact, hacked. I would certainly hope it was, or at the very least the product of an extremely biased employee who is about to be looking at walking papers.
Whether they were hacked or not, Twitter users were quick to jump on the tweet.
https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/842372069887205376
https://twitter.com/bryankremkau/status/842371639765565441
McDonald's Twitter Account Hacked, Police Release Photo of Suspected Hacker#McDonalds pic.twitter.com/PBU6NN4eM9
— Temu Illinois Irish James (@blackdoglurking) March 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/842373439553966080
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) March 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/842373219558543360
With so many businesses publicly trashing Trump, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that this was a real tweet that just didn’t go over very well with McDonald’s fans.
And group that includes Trump, by the way.
https://twitter.com/KristinSalaky/status/842374130401988608
Let’s hope that McDonald’s can get to the bottom of this ridiculous tweet and get back to supplying us with greasy burgers and delicious fries.