Trump Derangement Syndrome was on the menu for some food critics as they sought out a themed restaurant in spite of their own “nervousness.”
As leftists have likened President Donald Trump to “literally Hitler,” it comes as no surprise that demonization of him and his supporters has persisted. Going beyond smear campaigns and spin about the administration’s efforts against waste, fraud and abuse, critiques came from a new angle as food critics visited a budding Texas chain, Trump Burger.
Originally started in 2020 outside Houston in Bellville by Lebanese-born Roland Beainy, Trump Burger, of no affiliation with the Trump family, has since expanded to four locations, adding restaurants in Flatonia, Kemah and West Houston, with the latest addition bringing area critics in to explore what the menu had to offer.
After Eater’s Texas regional editor, Brittany Britto Garley, opened her review invoking “Civil Rights-era lunch counter sit-ins,” she later described how “the tension, likely combined with our nervousness, felt palpable.”
“Here, the vibe wasn’t festive,” she said as the venues include Trump memorabilia, decor and considerable amounts of American, “it was stiff, uncertain, and uncomfortable, particularly for me, a woman of color.”
Similar negativity was laced throughout the Houston Chronicle’s coverage of the chain as critic Bao Ong detailed his own discomfort about getting asked if he voted for Trump while eating at the restaurant that jokingly included a Biden Burger or Harris Burger — depending on the venue — described as “1 oz beef topped with old tomato and our oldest buns unavailable due [to] cheating and inflation” for $50.99.
The Trump Burger Restaurant in Texas has a Biden Inflation Burger on the menu. pic.twitter.com/yvX8ALhtph
— MMCrypto (@MMCrypto) October 18, 2024
“I can barely remember. That was a long time ago,” Ong said of his response that included “a nervous chuckle” before he went on to paint Trump supporters as against gratuity. “The MAGA hat-wearing customer never shared his order with me. Maybe he couldn’t make out my mumbling or got distracted when his friend pointed out that they hadn’t tipped. One scoffed at tipping while the other pulled out some cash.”
Remarking that the May opening of the Houston location was “met with middle fingers from passing drivers,” Garley went on to argue, “If you are someone who voted for Trump and supports his administration’s many compromising decisions, this place is likely for you.” For those that don’t fall into that category, she described the experience as, “… eating here feels like an endorsement of someone whose vitriolic rhetoric has harmed, in many cases irreparably, the people he was elected to serve.”
Responding to the coverage from area outlets, a Trump Burger official had told Fox News Digital, “The Houston Chronicle maintains a predominantly liberal stance, so we expected nothing less than a biased take on anything bearing the Trump name.”
Meanwhile, supporters didn’t even need to see the coverage of the restaurants to know how the “woke crowd” would be responding “with vegan tears and gluten-free rage.”
trump burger in houston? bet the woke crowd’s already protesting with vegan tears and gluten-free rage
— Trolling The Woke (@TrollingWoke_) May 19, 2025
How long till a judge files an injunction to shut it down?
— Lilly (@Lilly_Mist_AD) April 3, 2025
And the liberals on Facebook are melting down about it lol
— !FAFOTxMama! (@Yeshua_Fam_TX) April 29, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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