Former President Donald Trump (left) reportedly ordered burgers, hot dogs, fries and onion rings from All American Hamburger Drive In (right) in Massapequa on Long Island after attending slain New York officer Jonathan Diller’s wake (Pictures: Reuters/All American Hamburger Drive In)
Ex-President Donald Trump finished off a visit to New York to attend a slain cop’s wake by reportedly ordering $200 worth of some of his favorite greasy foods.
Trump stopped at All American Hamburger Drive In in Massapequa on Long Island and put in a massive order for his private jet flight back to home, according to his senior adviser, Daniel Scavino Jr.
Scavino in a Facebook post on Thursday thanked the restaurant for ‘a great burger, en route back to Florida this evening on Trump Force One’.
The establishment with neon signs for ‘burgers’ and ‘franks’ is just a mile west from Massapequa Funeral Home, where Trump met with the family of New York police Officer Jonathan Diller who was gunned down in the line of duty.
All American Hamburger Drive In is a popular fast food restaurant in Massapequa on Long Island (Picture: All American Hamburger Drive In)
All American Hamburger Drive In is a mile west of Massapequa Funeral Home, where ex-President Donald Trump attended a slain cop’s wake (Picture: Reuters)
Trump’s order for himself and his entourage included 18 ‘double double’ cheeseburgers, 10 hot dogs, two quarter-pounder hamburgers with cheese, 20 fries and 10 onion rings, All American manager Richard Vultaggio told the New York Post on Friday. They also took home many packets of ketchup and mustard.
The former president paid with credit card and gave a ‘generous’ tip in cash, said Vultaggio, adding that he heard Trump ‘did love’ the food.
Apparently as a result of Trump’s presence at the restaurant opened in 1963, ‘the community really came together’, as other customers ‘were paying for cops and we weren’t letting the police pay’, the manager said.
Trump’s team went for the grub shortly after he called for ‘law and order’ in light of Diller being the first New York City cop to die in the line of duty in two years.
Former President Donald Trump (left) leaves after attending a wake for New York City officer Jonathan Diller at Massapequa Funeral Home on Thursday (Picture: UMA Press Wire)
Former President Donald Trump reportedly ordered 18 ‘double double’ cheeseburgers for his entourage from All American Hamburger Drive In (Picture: UMA Press Wire)
‘The police are the greatest people we have. There’s nothing and there’s nobody like them. And this should never happen,’ said Trump after the visitation.
‘We have to get back to law and order.’
Trump said ‘we’ve got to toughen up’ and ‘have to do a lot of things differently’ because ‘this is not working’.
Diller, 31, was handling a routine traffic stop on Monday and approached a vehicle that was parked illegally in front of a bus stop in Far Rockaway, Queens. A suspect in the car with 21 prior arrests, Guy Rivera, allegedly opened fire and fatally struck Diller in the stomach below his bulletproof vest.
Ex-President Donald Trump reportedly also ordered 20 fries from the restaurant (Picture: All American Hamburger Drive In)
Former President Donald Trump spoke during a news conference after attending the wake of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller on Thursday (Picture: AP)
Thursday was not the first time that Trump has ended a serious appearance with a visit to a food joint.
In June after being arrested and booked at a federal courthouse in Miami for alleged mishandling of classified documents, Trump went straight to a famous Cuban restaurant where he shouted, ‘Food for everyone!’ Trump reportedly proceeded not to eat anything or pay for anyone’s items.
And in October, two suited men were spotted delivering at least a half dozen brown bags from McDonald’s – one of Trump’s known favorite restaurants – to a the New York Supreme Court where he attended his civil fraud trial. It was not clear if the massive order was for Trump and company.
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