Topics: Donald Trump, McDonalds, Politics, US News, Viral
President Donald Trump made an uncomfortably strange sound effect when describing his favorite McDonald's dish in a bizarre speech.
Americans have had a long love affair with the fast food franchise, ever since the inception of its Golden Arches, carhop drive-thrus and infamous affordable hamburger meals that burst onto the scene in the 1940s.
Likewise, the POTUS is a huge fan of the restaurant chain, even popping in for a shift in a Pennsylvania McDonald's during the 2024 presidential campaign and once even serving mountains of meals to the Clemson Tigers football team when they visited the White House in 2019 to celebrate winning the championship.
Now, in a speech at the company's Impact Summit in Washington DC on Monday (November 17), Trump dropped a rather weird speech about his love for the food, especially one dish.
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"I like the fish," he stated bluntly, referring to the Filet-O-Fish sandwich, before making an ineligible sound effect that words can't describe.
"I like it," he continued before giving bosses a tip on how to improve it further.
"You could do with a little more tartar sauce, though, please," Trump urged.
"Seriously," he continued while making a gesture of slapping more sauce on the bun. "I hate it when I say, 'Do you have any tartar sauce?'
"You understand? Yes, he understands that," Trump said, pointing at a member of the audience.
Trump's adoration for the McDonald's signature fish sandwich is no secret, as just last month Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters dropped the insight about Trump's go-to order during the campaign.
“He had hot fries waiting for him from McDonald’s ... And then he had a Filet-O-Fish, a Quarter Pounder, and a Big Mac, and I think he combined two of them,” Gruters said.
Meanwhile, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie's book, Let Trump Be Trump, revealed the POTUS enjoyed a different combo back in 2016, made up of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake to wash it all down.
Trump: I like the fish *sound effect* pic.twitter.com/K0qhlz3ph8
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 18, 2025
Elsewhere in the speech, Trump said he was 'honored' to attend the summit, declaring himself the 'very first former McDonald's fry cook ever to become president of the United States,' in reference to his stint serving French fries in Pennsylvania last year.
“While other politicians fly around on campaign planes stocked with expensive catering, on Trump Force One, prior to ascending to Air Force One, which is quite a nice plane also, we served only McDonald's almost every time,” he continued.
“And I even got Bobby Kennedy to eat a Big Mac,” he added in reference to his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., tasked with the Make America Healthy Again initiative.
“He told me he loved it,” Trump joked. “He didn't want that publicized.”
The president then went on to champion his apparent efforts to relax regulations, boost business and cut various taxes for the industry as per his Big Beautiful Bill that passed Congress in July, stating: "No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great seniors."
He also claimed the cost of a Thanksgiving meal in Walmart was 25 percent cheaper than last year, though FactCheck.org found this was due to fewer grocery items from alternative food brands.
Trump also applauded McDonald's for 'recommitting to affordable options' and for 'slashing prices for your most popular items [and] bringing back Extra Value Meals'.
Yet McDonald’s chief executive Christopher Kempczinski told investors last week that the number of low-income families visiting restaurants dropped by double digits amid concerns that its 'McValue menu' are now too expensive.
