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McDonalds is being fried online in a public relations nightmare over a hackers post on the fast-food giants Twitter feed that attacked President Trump and touted Barack Obama.

The salty tweet that sparked it all stated: @realDonaldTrump You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands.

McDonalds deleted it and quickly laid blame on hackers, tweeting: Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source.

It was too late. The Twitterverse erupted in an endless flurry of McStupid puns and worse. Some Trump supporters vowed to boycott the worldwide hamburger chain, pointing out that former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs is McDonalds executive vice president and global chief communications officer.

Never eating at McDonalds again, tweeted one Trump supporter. I support our President 100%.

Others threw their support behind the Golden Arches.

Ill buy 100 McNuggets right now if you put the tweet back up, said one user.

This isnt the first time McDonalds has found itself with egg on its Twitter account, said David Gerzof Richard, founder of Big Fish, a public relations agency, and an Emerson College communications professor.

He cited the ill-fated #McDStories campaign, where the fast-food chain asked customers to share their stories.

That backfired big time.

As you can imagine, not everybody has the greatest experience eating at McDonalds, Richard said. People were sharing stories about finding stuff in their burgers.

But the Trump tweet could burn the chain if the president (a fan of McDonalds fast food) lashes out. There are people that take what he says very seriously, said Sandy Lish, principal at The Castle Group. But there are plenty of people who take their french fry with a grain of salt and will continue to eat their french fries.

The Trump tweet probably wont hurt McDonalds in the long run, said Richard.

Theres all kinds of conjecture. Was it a hack? Was it a disgruntled employee? Was it an employee tweeting from the wrong account? Richard said. Those things have happened before and have not taken down a brand.

In 2011, for example, an employee mistakenly tweeted on Chryslers official Twitter account instead of his personal one, I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to (expletive) drive.

The employee, as you might have guessed, was fired.

Chrysler is, obviously, still selling cars in the Detroit area, Richard said.

That said, whether it hurts business comes down to taste buds.

At the end of the day, how much do you love your Big Mac? asked Lish. Because if you really love it, even if youre mad about it, youre going to go get your Big Mac.

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Someone with access to all or parts of President Donald Trump's tax returns wants them made public. But who?

Tuesday's disclosure of two pages from Trump's 2005 federal returns marked the second time in the last seven months that portions of Trump's tax filings have been leaked to reporters.

In October, The New York Times published a story based on a leaked portion of Trump's 1995 state tax returns in multiple states, showing that he declared a massive $916 million loss that year that could have enabled him to avoid paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades. And on Tuesday, investigative reporter David Cay Johnston unveiled some details of Trump's 2005 federal income tax return on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."

Trump promised during the 2016 presidential campaign to release his tax returns, but has repeatedly refused to do so, citing an IRS audit he has yet to show proof of.

Related: Trump paid $38 million in federal taxes

Here's what we know about how the leaks happened and what they tell us about who the leaker or leakers might be:

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Who Is Leaking Donald Trump's Tax Returns? - NBCNews.com

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Donald Trump, Netherlands, Federal Reserve: Your Wednesday Briefing New York Times Voting in The Hague today. The Dutch elections are the first big test this year for the far right in Europe. Credit Peter Dejong/Associated Press. (Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning. Here's what you need to know ... and more »

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House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff (Calif.) expressed doubt, March 15, about President Trump's claim of a 2016 wire tap at Trump Tower. (Reuters)

If there is one man on Capitol Hill that President Trump might want to stay in the good graces of, it's Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Nunes is the head of the House intelligence committee, which is in charge of investigating Russia's role in the 2016 election you know, the one Democrats think could prove collusion between the Trump campaign and a foreign power.

And until this week,that was a good setup for Trump. Nunes had beena member of his own transition team, after all, and he seemed to go out of his way to defend Trump in a way few others did,frankly.

That may no longer be the case.

Nunes delivered a reasonably strong rebuke of Trump on Wednesday for his tweet that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, saying that if the tweet were to be taken literally, clearly the president was wrong (meaning Trump). The comment came a couple days after Nunes threatened to subpoena the Trump administration for failing to turn over evidence related to Trump's claim.

As I argued Tuesday, Nunes seems to be fed up with this story line, and he's suddenly willing to wield his authority in a way that Trump probably doesn't love. Or, at the very least, Nunes is now bowing to the reality of Trump's wayward and still evidence-free conspiracy theory.

And that's a clear reversal from where Nunes has been in recent weeks.

A month ago, when then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was in hot water, Nunes gave him a big if ill-timed vote of confidence. He said Flynn should not step down mere hours before Flynn was forced to do so.

No, I don't," Nunes told Fox News's Neil Cavuto. I have great confidence in Mike Flynn. Hes probably the best intelligence officer of his generation. And Neil, hes being attacked maliciously by the press, which is not uncommon in this town.

Two weeks later, Nunes shrugged off the idea that Trump might have asked Flynn to signal to the Russian ambassador that Trump would ease Obama's sanctions once Trump was in office. Even discussing those sanctionsduring Trump's transition period risked violating the law, and Flynn later misled the White House about it, leading to his resignation.

At the time, Nunes said he didn't think it was even plausible that Trump had directed Flynn to talk sanctions because Trump was so busy a curious argument, in my mind.

I would find that hard to believe because they were so busy, and I think these conversations were all very short, Nunes said.

Then, last week, Nunes seemed to poo-poothe same tweets he addressed Wednesday, suggesting that Trump should be excused for being a newcomer to politics and not having lawyers review every tweet. It was truly a wide-ranging defense.

The president is a neophyte to politics, Nunes said. Hes been doing this a little over a year. And I think a lot of the things that he says, you guys sometimes take literally. Sometimes he doesnt have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does which is, I think, at times refreshing and at times can also lead us to have to be sitting at a press conference like this, answering questions that you guys are asking. But at the end of the day, I think tweets are a very transparent way for a politician of any rank to communicate with their constituents. So I don't think we should attack the president for tweeting.

Fast forward to Wednesday, andNunes has now delivered perhaps the most significant contradiction to the White House's ongoing claim which Trump apparently still subscribes to that Obama surveilled him somehow.

We'll see where Nunes's relationship with Trump goes from here, but he's in a position of power. And perhaps he's finally realizing that.

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