The owner of a Texas restaurant apologized after Donald Trump Jr. shared three photos of himself posing and cringing with a cookie cake frosted in the "Hope" style of former President Obama's campaign posters. In one of the shots, the president's eldest son posed with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

Trump Jr. tagged the location of owner Stephan Courseau's Dallas restaurant "Le Bilboquet" in the post, which went viral after he posted it on Sunday.

A post shared by Donald Trump Jr. (@donaldjtrumpjr) on Dec 17, 2017 at 5:00pm PST

"With friends like these... some good friends decided that while my birthday is not for 2 weeks that they would get me an early 40th birthday cake. And what birthday is complete without an Obama cake? I figured it was so good that I would have to share it with Ted," Trump Jr. captioned the Instagram post.

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Courseau made a follow-up post Monday on Instagram apologizing for Trump Jr.'s photos and clarifying what he called "unfortunate circumstances."

The post has since been taken down, but originally said: