Getty McDonald’s official Twitter account mocks Trump’s ‘tiny hands’

McDonald's seemed to challenge President Donald Trump to a Twitter war on Thursday morning before quickly walking it back, saying its account had been "compromised."

“@realDonaldTrump You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands,” the McDonald’s Twitter account posted at 9:16 a.m.


The missive was retweeted more than 1,000 times before it was deleted some minutes later, and a bit before 10:30 a.m., McDonald's followed up and tweeted that it was "investigating" the incident.

"Twitter notified us that our account was compromised," the restaurant posted. "We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now investigating this."

Terri Hickey, a spokesperson for McDonald’s, later said in a statement, "Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source. We took swift action to secure it, and we apologize this tweet was sent through our corporate McDonald’s account."

The president has not yet responded to the provocation, despite that it was made on his favorite social media platform.

McDonald’s has been a favorite of Trump’s, and he’s made no secret of his love for fast-food staples.

“I’m a very clean person. I like cleanliness, and I think you’re better off going there than maybe someplace that you have no idea where the food’s coming from. It’s a certain standard,” Trump said last year during a CNN town hall, explaining why he’s drawn to fast food joints.

Trump also appeared in a McDonald’s commercial in 2002, talking up the now-discontinued Big N’ Tasty with Grimace, the company’s iconic giant purple creature, in Trump Tower.

As described in a post on Instagram last May, Trump celebrated winning the Republican Party’s nomination for president by eating McDonald’s — specifically, french fries, a hamburger and a Diet Coke — on his private jet.

