For some, a group of people dressed as former President Donald Trump at McDonald's is a trick, and for others it is a treat, but regardless of how people feel about the White House hopeful, Halloween lovers across the U.S. are drawing costume inspiration from his campaign stop at McDonald's earlier this month.
Following Trump's visit to a Pennsylvania McDonalds on October 20, Google searches for "McDonald's Costume" went up by 412 percent worldwide, and searches for "Donald Trump costume" also rose, according to Quartz.
Now that it's Halloween, people have taken to social media to show off their Trump-at-McDonald's inspired costumes.
One TikTok creator, Corrin Saddoris, posted a video of herself in a black apron and red tie, complete with a McDonald's logo on the apron and a red Make America Great Again hat. She received over 16,000 likes on the video, and questions about how she put it together.
In a second video, Saddoris explained that she was originally going to be Trump but the Sunday before she was going to dress up he went to McDonalds and she "knew I had to do it."
She posted her outfit video to the soundtrack of Trump at McDonald's saying: "I'm going for a job right now at McDonald's. I've really wanted to do this all my life, and now I'm going to do it. Because she didn't do it."
The "she" in the sound-bite is Kamala Harris who Trump has repeatedly said never worked at McDonald's when she was in college, despite Harris saying she worked there for a summer.
Saddoris is not the only creator to use that sound-bite or costume for inspiration this Halloween. There are many other people on TikTok who also dressed as the candidate. Rachel Trout went to a McDonald's in her full costume in a video captioned "when you're dressed as Trump, you HAVE to go to a McDonald's."
Trump's McDonald's get-up also inspired couples costumes, as one couple on TikTok posted a video of the husband in a black apron embossed with the words "I'll have fries with my McTrump" next to his wife who is dressed as McDonald's fries.
According to Newsweek reporting, Donald Trump's shift at McDonald's was an effective political move among Gen Z voters, as a total of 39 percent of Gen Z respondents to a Newsweek poll said the campaign stop made them like him more.
In an opinion piece for Newsweek, lawyer Aron Solomon pointed out that it would actually be "legally impossible" for Trump to ever work a full-time job at McDonald's because he is a convicted felon.
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