Journalists covering President Donald Trump’s arrival to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday observed the presence of a mobile McDonald’s set up at a press center for covering the event in Riyadh, an apparent nod to the president’s love of the burger restaurant.
Officials reportedly set up the mobile McDonald’s, which was “still shuttered” as of Tuesday, in a “Media Oasis” for journalists, according to the Associated Press. The “Oasis” featured various displays of Saudi government propaganda touting the government’s construction projects, including the controversial, still-unbuilt “city of the future” Neom and venues for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, which Saudi Arabia is hosting after bidding for the honor uncontested.
Trump has famously developed a reputation for loving McDonald’s. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, recounted in his memoir Trump’s “favorite” order, which consisted of a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, French fries, and a vanilla milkshake, the New York Post reported:
The 45h president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reveals in his forthcoming White House memoir that he knew Trump was recovering from his nasty bout of COVID in the fall of 2020 “when he requested one of his favorite meals.”
“McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” the husband of Ivanka Trump recounts, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Washington Examiner.
As Breitbart News reported, during his 2024 presidential campaign against former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump served customers at a McDonald’s in Philadelphia, an attempt to highlight “allegations” that Harris “never worked at a McDonald’s” while in college as she has claimed.
