From Mike Snider, "Burger King trolls Trump on including 'hamberders' in 'massive' fast food order," USA Today
President Donald Trump may be the Twitterer-In-Chief but Burger King, known for its flame-grilled burgers, served him up a sizzling salvo on the social network.
The president amassed a fast food smorgasbord Monday night with servings from Burger King, McDonalds and Wendy's for a visit from the Clemson Tigers football team, which last week won the college national championship.
On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted about the event. “Great being with the National Champion Clemson Tigers last night at the White House,” he tweeted. “Because of the Shutdown I served them massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone. Great guys and big eaters!”
At some point later, Trump deleted that tweet, apparently because of the misspelling of "hamburgers," and replaced it, but the damage had been done.
Burger King, known for its quirky commercials, quickly offered a fresh, humorous take with its response that "due to a large order placed yesterday, we're all out of hamberders."
The tweet has gotten more than 300,000 likes. Meanwhile, the president's restructured tweet led to more than 131,000 likes and more than 20,000 retweets with some also poking fun at him.
Several drew an analogy between paying the football champs' fast food dinner bill and paying for the southern border wall. "I'm going to make Taco Bell pay for it all," the potential meme declared.
Professional zinger-throwers including Jimmy Kimmel couldn't help themselves either. During Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, the late night host addressed the initial tweet's spelling mishap: "How does that happen? The 'e' and the 'u' aren't even near each other on the keyboard! It's like in the middle of tweeting he had a stroke or something," he said. "Or is it possible he thought they were called 'hamberders' until today?"
Kimmel also jokingly questioned whether Trump actually paid and noted Trump himself said there were 300 hamburgers among the fast food served on silver platters.
"He has to lie about everything, he can't help it," Kimmel said. "Or maybe he ate the other 700 hamberders himself."
Follow USA TODAY reporter Mike Snider on Twitter: @MikeSnider.
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