White House celebrates as Trump-favorite McDonald’s announces return date for beloved menu item – UK Times

McDonald’s beloved fried apple pie is back, and President Donald Trump is lovin’ it.

The official White House X account celebrated the golden arches’ announcement Tuesday, which revealed that the fried apple pie will return for a limited time on June 23 to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

“Caution: get the fried apple pie while it’s hot on 6.23,” McDonald’s wrote in a post, accompanied by a promotional video of someone splitting the item open, exposing its steaming apple insides.

The White House joined in on the excitement, sharing a photo of Trump, a well-known McDonald’s enthusiast, standing in the Oval Office with three McDonald’s bags on his desk.

“Making America Great Again for real,” the post read, along with the eyes emoji.

This is the first time in over three decades that McDonald’s is bringing back the fried apple pie, the company said. It was first introduced in 1968 alongside the Big Mac, before it was replaced with a baked version in most U.S. restaurants in 1992 amid growing health-conscious eating trends.

The baked pie contains 230 calories, 10 more than the original fried version. While fried pies remain available in some international markets, a dedicated fan base has continued to push for their return.

To celebrate the limited-time comeback, McDonald’s is installing a 35-foot-tall fried apple pie along Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois, and says it serves about 170 million American-grown apples annually in its U.S. restaurants. The giant pie will stay put until July 4.

Trump is a longtime McDonald’s lover, even appearing in an ad for the McDonald’s dollar menu in 2002. His passion for the fast food chain has famously extended to the White House, where he served fast-food feasts to the national champion Clemson Tigers and North Dakota State Bison football teams in 2019.

Years earlier, his former bodyguard, Keith Schiller, regularly picked up McDonald’s meals for Trump during the 2016 campaign, including Egg McMuffins for breakfast and “two quarter-pounders and a large fries” later in the day, according to a 2017 Politico report.

The report also said Schiller would make White House fast-food runs when staff “couldn’t match the satisfaction of a quarter-pounder with cheese (no pickles, extra ketchup) and a fried apple pie.”

More recently, Trump visited a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, during a campaign stop in October 2024. He even donned a apron and worked the drive-thru window. In April of this year, Trump made headlines when he accepted a DoorDash delivery of McDonald’s outside the Oval Office. The interaction with an Arkansas DoorDash driver doubled as a chance for the president to spotlight his administration’s “no tax on tips” policy.