McDonald’s Blames Trump ‘Uncertainty’ for Worst Sales Since COVID

Get fucked McDonald's, raising prices every year on cheap, crappy, unhealthy food. Get fucked, you literally voted for this. Fuck all the way off and enjoy your ride. Cunts.

I blame the $6 mcmuffins and $4 hash browns.

For the price of McDonalds, you can go somewhere with decent food these days. The o ly reason to go there is if you are in a super rush, and even then, c-stores are putting out increasingly good food these days that can be grabbed in 2 minutes.

You bent the knee.

Suffer the consequences.

Dear McDonald's,

A big mac is not a $7 burger. It's not even a $4 burger.

That's all

this pic is a year old. its worse now:

I mean, mcdonalds had to raise prices to make up for all the free food they handed out to the IDF, so I get it.

The only reason to eat at McDonald's was because it was cheap and fast. It's no longer cheap and you can get better food for almost as fast elsewhere. STFU McDonald's.

Who the fuck is still spending money at McDonald’s in 2025?

Can someone get it through the mcds executive heads that they fucking suck?

I love how they had that cute little virtue signaling with that fucking shit gibbon of a fake president and now they’re like oh it’s consumer Spending. Let me tell you as a retail business it’s them.

They felt the need to signal to maga and they’re going to get what they get because maga are fucking broke and only have money to buy Shitty Chinese made red hats And fake American flags.

Dumb fucks.

I stopped eating there a year ago when I found out they were charging me about 50% more for not using their app.

Also their food fucking sucks and makes you fat and sick

Anywhere but the mirror, huh? Please collapse, McDonald's.

This is only half bullshit. Quality is through the bottom level of hell on every metric at McDonalds. The ONLY reason I go is because they have a kids playplace. The app is essentially required, but sucks ass for usability. They took the soda machines out of most of them so free refills are basically gone, the prices are rediculous and the food sucks. Also, people are tightening belts because Trump (WHO MCDONALDS SUPPORTED) is an idiot.

Well, their "food" now costs as much or more than a nice sit-down meal. And, in my opinion, it's terrible.

if only there had been warning signs

...how about blaming trashy fast slow food priced higher than table service at a proper sit-down restaurant?..

I guess Trump doesn't help, but it's also easy to point the finger. If eating at a fast food chain is no longer fast, cheap nor food (let's be honest). Is it then strange that sales are declining?

They turned in Luigi, likely by having facial recognition in all stores. This is not justifying what Luigi is charged with, but fuck McDonald's for being a part of that lie. Traitorous lying scum.

They have cameras pointing up at you from the register area when you place an order, apparently "just for QR codes." And all their fucking digital menus have cameras in them. Why exactly is that needed? Fraud prevention for the illicit big Mac?

McDonald's doesn't value privacy and I don't believe for a second a random employee there identified Luigi.

Between them trying to use AI on me to take an order (and likely trying to voiceprint me) and also just not caring about privacy at all, why the fuck would I go there? Nope.

I don't trust them at all. In the US, corporations are legally allowed to lie to you if the government approves so if they do have some program in cahoots with police for facial recognition, we would never know.

I'm not saying it's bad to catch bad guys who are religious radicals, but the government is not exactly trustworthy.

And, on top of this, they fucked everyone over on price, then lowered it slightly when they realized they stepped in dog shit, showing how price increases were partly price gouging.

Fuck McDonalds.

Most national/international fast food places seem to have looked at the "good, fast, cheap" principle and decided the answer is D) None of the above.

Have they been getting by on inertia and nostalgia in recent history? I could be an incredibly unlucky person, but all my experiences with these places have just been bad, bad in the past 5 or so years. I excused it a bit during the height of covid, but there's been time to work things out and they just haven't even bothered.

I'm not exactly their target audience, since I rarely get food at fast food places, but as it stands, if I were going to get fast food, the whole Trump McDonald's circus show has turned me off to that brand entirely. Burger King is a no-go after getting incredibly sick from their food. Taco Bell just completely gave up on themselves. Wendy's is so expensive now that I can't justify it anymore even as a guilty treat while traveling. I'd rather pack some ham sandwiches in a mini-cooler and make do with that.

I can’t afford to eat at McDonald’s, even if I wanted to.

Well, at least some good has come from Trump's brainless vandalism.

It's ok we shouldn't be eating that garbage anyway

McDonald's should fucking stfu

Eat shit, McDonalds.

I’m in Canada.

A&W Canada (a Canadian owned company) provides higher quality food for cheaper prices.

Their breakfast beats McDonald’s by a lot — the hash browns are almost twice as thick. They also have not messed up my order once.

The McDonald’s nearby ducks up 50% of the time, takes forever, and costs more.

Why would I go there?

Having to use a stupid fucking phone app to get less astronomical prices for bad food, poor service and rude/flippant employees is what tanked their sales.

I love the idea of blaming trump anyway because fuck that asshole.

Never mind that they’ve been seeing a sales decline for longer than just the past 100 days, and their sales declines aren’t limited to just the US.

Here in Australia their burgers have gotten so expensive, and so small - you’d be forgiven for confusing it with one of those gummy burger packets!

At least Hungry Jacks (our version of Burger King) has largely still maintained the same size; the Whopper offers infinitely more value and the Angry variant (spicy fried onions and jalapeños) kicks ass!

I posted this elsewhere, but..

Their food started being so insanely priced that they made a post that was the equivalent of corporate propaganda back in 2024. This was disproven again and again and again.

Their greed has been hurting them because no one wants to pay the insane prices for shit food. They stopped competing with budget fast food, coming closer to fast casual. Like, if I'm gonna spend that cash, I might as well go to Five Guys or Red Robin.

I noticed similar drastic price increases at Little Caesars. $30 for two pizzas and a breadstick combo is insane especially since they use the worst ingredients and let their pizzas sit around all day. Dominos is actually cheaper in my area, why the hell would I ever go to Little Caesars?

McD's has been expensive as fuck for years now. I can feed my entire family of 7 for under $20 at the Costco food court. That's something for McD's to aspire to.

As I understand it, mcd had already done so many other cost cutting tactics to increase profits for their masters, the SHAREHOLDERS. The corporate business model demands increases EVERY quarter. This kind of continuous infinite profit growth just doesn't make sense in real life. They may have exhausted all other options to increase profit for their shareholders beside price increases. They have no one to blame but themselves. They could stand up to their shareholders and not raise prices, but seems like they're spineless, and now they are pushing up against the edge of what their customers are willing to pay. I don't know how long they can keep this up.

I'm in need of a meme involving a certain type of feline and the regrettable mutilation of faces, but it escapes me at present. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciate. Thank you kindly beforehand.

Then maybe the place that sells plastic food shouldn't have let this felon rapist use one of their restaurants for a photo op.

Lower your price gouged menu prices. I quit them a few years ago. I eat out about twice a month now.

It certainly isn't going to be their nasty tasting cardboard food.

Would you like fries with your uncertainty?

Lol sure, I don't mind companies blaming trump. But what about the decreasing sales before 2025?

Does the effects of tariffs travel backwards through time? 🤔

(Mcdonalds is so bad, you might as well just get food from your local Chinese restaurant, which cost about the same and is much healthier)

Boycott this fascist, carnist, genocidal filth.

Carnism <---> Fascism.

Womp womp

Burger king in the Whitehouse for the next leader summit then

If only we could've known ahead of time

Quit supporting genocide and fascism, then we'll talk

Nothing to do with feeding genocidal maniacs and boasting about it? Pretty sure that helped the boycott

Best headline photo they could have picked

Their garbage food and sky high prices, and severe lack of quality operations probably did more damage.

Buying fast food is humiliating for customers and employees.

It should be seen as a last resort for emergencies only, not people's main way to sustain themselves.

You get what you fucking deserve.

Maybe they should introduce the new Executive Faceburger to their menu.

Get allthe leopards to start eating there.

A few years ago I got drive through that wasn't put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.

McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.

Sorry, I've been eating better for my health.

McDonald's and other fast food burger chains mostly exist to me for when I'm craving fries and download the app and get some deal where it's like buy the smallest drink and get free large fries. They get like $2 about every 6 months from me