There's A Literal Mobile McDonald's Parked In Saudi Arabia Near Where President Trump Is Currently Visiting
Welp, it seems like President Trump and McDonald's may be making news together again. You may recall wayyy back in 2019 when President Trump served McDonald's to the Clemson football team as they visited the White House to celebrate their national championship victory (along with other fast-food options).
Over the years, more stories have come out revealing Trump's affinity for the fast-food chain, including an exposé revealing late-night runs from his head of Oval Office operations, his son Donald Trump Jr., suggesting that President Trump knows the McDonald's menu better than Vice President Kamala Harris, and President Trump allegedly having it delivered to court during his civil trial in Manhattan.
In fact, he even worked at a McDonald's drive-thru in Pennsylvania during his 2024 Presidential campaign.
Well, as President Trump visits Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week, Senior U.S. Correspondent of i24NEWS, Mike Wagenheim, shared a video on Twitter, now known as X, of a mobile McDonald's stationed in an area nearby.
Yes, it's a mobile @McDonalds here in Riyadh. pic.twitter.com/Y6T2EBDbQf
— Mordechai Wagenheim (@Mike_Wagenheim) May 13, 2025
Twitter: @Mike_Wagenheim
The White House has not addressed the claim that the food truck was rolled out by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman specifically for President Trump's visit, but the internet has a lot of opinions. Over on the r/politics subreddit, folks had a lot to say:
"Now, this is just fucking embarrassing."
—PopPalsUnited
"Dumbing down the food to cater for the preferences of the president of the USA is an unspoken but obvious indication of how unsophisticated he is, and how obvious it is to the world."
—somebodyelse22
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"How to suck up to a moron while at the same time ridiculing him in front of the whole world. Thank god he's too stupid to understand subtext."
—Much_Guava_1396
"This is what the world pretty correctly sees of Americans."
—SlinkDogg
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"I literally laughed out loud until it made me too sad to continue laughing. Who am I kidding, that's become an everyday occurrence."
—PunfullyObvious
And the discussion continued over on the r/pics subreddit, as well:
"I'm surprised Qatar didn't have a McDonald's built into the Bribemobile 4000."
—AwesomeExo
"If Trump had one ounce of self-awareness, he'd realize what a slap in the face that was on the part of the Saudis."
—Practical-Bit9905
"I don't understand how every American is not absolutely humiliated by this."
—oupheking
Unsurprisingly, the discourse also continued over on Twitter. "Imagine being so out of touch that a foreign country rolls out a mobile McDonald's for you."
"Can't tell you how horrifying it is that the sentence 'RFK Jr couldn't stop Trump from eating at the Saudi Arabian mobile McDonalds because he was busy swimming in sewage' is 100% true."
"Oh wow we are never beating the American stereotype."
No word yet on whether or not President Trump will be manning a shift at the drive-thru window in this roving Mickey D's, but we will update if he does.
Comments have been edited for length and clarity.
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