Trump’s cheeseburger draws a crowd at Tokyo restaurant

By Anna Giaritelli

Published November 16, 2017 1:29pm ET

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Trump’s cheeseburger draws a crowd at Tokyo restaurant — President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, ate a lunch of hamburgers from Munch's Burger Shack at Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo. The cheeseburger Trump had is still drawing lines at the Tokyo burger joint. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) | Eugene Hoshiko

Yutaka Yanagisawa, the owner of a Tokyo burger joint, said his restaurant has been inundated with hungry customers who want to eat the same cheeseburger that President Trump had during his visit to Japan last week.

One diner, pastry chef Haruyuki Sano, said he agrees with Trump’s ideology of putting one’s own country first, and traveled an hour and a half to have the same 100 percent U.S. Angus beef Colby Jack Cheeseburger that Trump ordered.

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