Tag Archives: McDonald’s

Glorious Leader is even lying about how many hamberders: The grand total? According to our count, Trump spent about $2,911.44 on feeding the team. A sixth of that is the fries alone, though, so take with a grain of salt. (The fries; also the estimate.) Half of the cost was incurred at McDonald’s alone. This total includes 319 sandwiches, 177 …

USA Today reports: Some 395 people have become sick from eating tainted McDonald’s salads, according to an updated count Friday afternoon from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The illnesses have been linked to salad mix contaminated with the Cyclospora parasite, which is spread through fecal matter. Sixteen individuals have been hospitalized, according to the CDC. Fifteen states have …

NBC Connecticut reports: It appears a local McDonald’s has thrown down the gauntlet to its new fast-food neighbor. A Chick-fil-A is moving in next to the Glastonbury McDonald’s. While the chicken chain does not open until July 26, to the casual observer it appears McDonald’s may already be taking a dig at their values. The sign under the golden arches …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge in Chicago has tossed a class-action lawsuit that argued McDonald’s was duping consumers because a single “Extra Value Meal” costs more than the sum total of the individual components of the meal bought separately. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported Monday that Kelly Killeen said she bought a sausage burrito breakfast Extra Value …

Bloomberg reports: Donald Trump has traded cheeseburgers for salads in the presidential diet — at least some of the time. The president whose trademark campaign-trail dinner consisted of two McDonald’s Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake is cutting back on doctor’s orders to drop a few pounds, according to three people familiar with the matter. Less red …

Talking Points Memo reports: The White House physician on Friday declared President Donald Trump “in excellent health” after Trump received his first annual physical exam while in office. “The President’s physical exam today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went exceptionally well,” Dr. Ronny Jackson said in a statement. “The President is in excellent health and I look forward …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s personal physician once claimed he would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” but there’s a good deal of evidence casting doubt on that idea. Trump, who will undergo his first presidential physical exam Friday, is older than all previous presidents when they first took office. He is also the heaviest president …

The Washington Examiner reports: Tiffany Trump on Friday confirmed President Trump’s affinity for McDonald’s but stopped short of verifying Michael Wolff’s claim that the president indulged in menu items from the fast food chain every night in bed. “He loves McDonald’s,” Trump told TMZ regarding her father’s predilections. “He wishes, right?” the first daughter added when asked whether he ate …

Politico reports: When senior White House officials wanted to know what mood the president was in before a meeting, they used to look for guidance from Keith Schiller, a man with a hangdog face who sat in a small, shared office off the Oval. When friends and advisers outside the West Wing wanted to share a news article, gossip or …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Ohio-based anti-LGBTQ activist Linda Harvey of Mission America is urging Christian conservatives to join her in boycotting McDonald’s because a few restaurants are serving fries in rainbow-themed packaging in honor of Pride Month. Harvey said that Christians must engage in a nationwide boycott of McDonald’s because “all this bowing before homosexual shame month, …

Just in from the American Family Association’s censor-in-chief Monica Cole: Dear Joe, Some victories take place within only 2 hours of letting our voice be heard while others take much longer, and that is OK. Over a year ago, One Million Moms and AFA partnered with Enough Is Enough (EIE), an organization pioneering Internet safety, along with 75 other family …

From the Shanghaiist: A new advertisement by McCafé featuring a heartwarming coming-out scene has created something of a firestorm in a coffee cup in Taiwan, with religious fundamentalists up in arms, calling for a boycott against the chain. In the 90-second video, titled Acceptance, the third and latest video in the More Warmth in Conversations campaign by McCafé which started …

The Twitter feed for McDonald’s is full of “hip” GIFs and videos today as they promote the national roll-out of “all day breakfast.” Crain’s Business reports: McDonald’s is launching all-day breakfast nationwide starting Oct. 6, the latest attempt of the struggling fast-food giant to reverse seven straight quarters of declining sales. The Oak Brook-based chain’s franchisees voted to approve the …

Just in via email: Public Wi-Fi hotspots are attracting pedophiles and sex offenders to McDonald’s – where we bring our children to eat and play – and where illegal p-rn can be accessed easily with anonymity. Because there are no filters to block online p-rnography and child p-rnography in these restaurants that so many families like yours and mine frequent, …

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A coalition of 40 human rights groups have issued a joint letter to the top ten corporate sponsors of the Sochi Olympics which demands that they denounce Russia’s abuses against LGBT people. Via press release: Corporate sponsors of the Sochi Winter Olympics should act now to urge Russia to halt the rising tide of discrimination, harassment and threats against lesbian, …

In the growing campaign to shame Olympic advertisers, activists are using the website of Coca-Cola South Africa, where you can personalize a Coke can and click to share it on social media. I used the above message and added the McDonald’s hashtag #CheersToSochi.  (Tipped by JMG reader Mark) NOTE: If you try to type the word “gay” you get this …

Activists are now in their fourth day of hijacking the #CheersToSochi hashtag on Twitter. (Tipped by JMG reader Str8 Grandmother)