Trump’s McDonald’s Uniform Inspires TikTok Halloween Costume Trend

For some, a group of people dressed up as a former president Donald Trump bee McDonald’s is a trick, and for others it’s a treat, but no matter how people feel about the White House hopeful, Halloween lovers in the US are taking costume inspiration from his campaign stop at McDonald’s earlier this month.

Next Trump’s visit to a McDonalds in Pennsylvania on October 20, Googling searches for “McDonald’s Costume” are up 412 percent globally, and searches for “Donald Trump costume” are also up, according to Quartz.

Now that Halloween is here, people have taken to social media to show off their Trump-at-McDonald’s-inspired costumes.

A TikTok creator, Corrin Saddoris, posted 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 more than 16,000 likes on the video and was asked questions about how she put it together.

In one second videoSaddoris explained that she was originally going to be Trump, but the Sunday before she got dressed up, he went to McDonalds and she “knew I had to do it.”

She posted her outfit video to Trump’s soundtrack at McDonald’s, saying, “I’m going for a job at McDonald’s now. I’ve really wanted to do this my whole life, and now I’m going to do it. Because she hasn’t done it.”

The ‘she’ in the sound bite is Kamala Harris who Trump has repeatedly said never worked at McDonald’s while in college, despite Harris saying she worked there one summer.

Saddoris isn’t the only creator using that soundbite or costume as inspiration this Halloween. There are many more people on TikTok who also dressed up as candidates. Rachel Trout went to a McDonald’s in her full costume in a video titled “if you’re dressed as Trump, you HAVE to go to a McDonald’s.”

Trump’s McDonald’s outfit also inspired costumes for couples, as one couple on TikTok posted a video of the man in a black apron with the words “I’ll have fries with my McTrump” next to his wife dressed as McDonald’s fries.

According to Newsweek reporting, Donald Trump’s McDonald’s move was an effective political move among Generation Z votersas a total of 39 percent of Generation Z respondents to a Newsweek According to opinion polls, the halt to the campaign made them love him more.

In an opinion piece for NewsweekAttorney Aron Solomon pointed out that this would actually be the case “legally impossible” for Trump to one day work a full-time job at McDonald’s because he is a convicted felon.

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