Yelp has temporarily disabled reviews for a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, following a campaign stop by former President Donald Trump. The restaurant’s Yelp page was flooded with politicized reviews, leading the platform to investigate whether the comments reflected actual customer experiences.
The event was closed to the public, and only customers screened by the Secret Service were served. Yelp users quickly posted a flurry of reviews, some poking fun at Trump.
One commenter quipped, “The fries were too salty, as if someone who lost a major election had been crying over them for an hour,” while another joked about “bronzer on my fries.”
Yelp issued a statement saying, “This business recently received increased public attention, which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news… we’ve temporarily disabled the posting of content to this page.”
The platform explained that it was working to determine whether the reviews reflected real consumer experiences.
Some five-star reviews also appeared, with one user calling it the “best McDonald’s I’ve ever been to in 47 years,” praising Trump’s involvement as an “extremely nice older employee.”
A Trump campaign spokesperson responded to the controversy by blaming Vice President Kamala Harris and her supporters, accusing them of attempting to “terrorize a franchisee owner of a great American establishment.”
This is not the first time Trump has been targeted in Yelp review bombing campaigns. In 2018, his Washington hotel saw hundreds of one-star reviews after he made controversial remarks about immigration.
