In 2016, Good Stuff Eatery served The Trump, topped with Swiss cheese, champagne mushrooms, onion straws, and lemon truffle mayo.(Photo by Good Stuff Eatery)

By DCist contributor Alicia Cohn

Former President Barack Obama liked to eat out—everywhere from fancy sit-down restaurants to Taylor Gourmet.

He inspired both specialty items and regular menus in the District. Burger joint Good Stuff Eatery still has the Prez Obama Burger on the menu and his face graces the mural outside of Ben’s Chili Bowl.

But President Donald Trump, a less adventurous diner, gets less love on menus. Good Stuff Eatery will soon be one of the few District eateries featuring an item named for Trump on its locations’ regular menus.

“We are debuting the new menu in September which will have a Trump-dedicated burger,” says spokeswoman Micheline Mendelsohn. She says Ivanka Trump even gave them feedback on her father’s favorite burger.

Good Stuff did feature a Trump Burger—and a Hillary Clinton one—during the election in 2016. The Trump was topped with Swiss cheese, champagne mushrooms, onion straws, and lemon truffle mayo.

The burger joint says its Prez Obama Burger is still its top seller.

Around the city, Trump-related menu items have tended to be tongue-in-cheek—and short lived.

Both Commissary (1443 P St. NW) and American City Diner (5532 Connecticut Ave. NW) last year featured a bologna-filled Trump sandwich on their menus. Community (7776 Norfolk Ave.) in Bethesda is featuring a limited-edition “Trump Jr.” burger topped with Russian dressing all month. They previously poked fun at Trump with the Trumpster Fire and the Golden Showers burgers.

Barrel’s (613 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) Elixir Bar pop-up featured the theme Make Cocktails Great Again in the lead up to the election, complete with a warning to patrons upon entering of “locker room talk” ahead.

The owner of an Adams Morgan bar that has hosted State of the Union parties with thematic drinks since 2005 says he would not consider adding a Trump-themed cocktail to the regular menu.

“I don’t think it would be popular, not in Adams Morgan,” says Ventnor Sports Cafe (2411 18th St. NW) owner Scott Auslander. “We’d probably be more likely to have a [Russian President Vladimir] Putin-themed cocktail, or something cheeky.”

At this year’s equivalent of the State of the Union address (presidents must be in office a year before it’s technically a “State of the Union”) Ventnor “barely sold more than two cocktails,” Auslander says. It was a huge change from the crowds the bar got during former President George Bush’s and Obama’s administrations.

Trump at least gets a bipartisan nod from Popped! Republic, a District food truck that sells gourmet popcorn. But he might not appreciate the flavor named after him—a mix of a CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer-inspired “Blitzer buffalo” and what Popped! calls “congressional cheddar.”

“Both of the popcorns [in the mix] have an orange tint to them, and people kind of joke that Trump has that fake bake tan so our popcorn is as orange as he is,” says owner Rich Arslan.

Arslan says people often order the Trump Mix as a gag gift.

The number one best seller at Popped! remains the Obama Mix. Arslan diplomatically noted that the Obama Mix is a blend of cheddar and caramel that tends to be popular no matter what it’s called.

“We could have called it the D.C. Mix knowing it was going to be our number one best seller but since he was president when we started our business we decided to call it our Obama Mix,” he says.

Trump does get some love from his own restaurants. The Benjamin Bar & Lounge in Trump International Hotel (1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW) has an extravagant “Trump tower” on the menu: A one-pound lobster, eight oysters, four clams, four shrimp, blue crab cocktail, cocktail sauce, mignonette, and Old Bay aioli.

Trump ate his first meal in a D.C. restaurant as president in that hotel, which is less than a mile from the White House. When the new president eats out, it tends to be either fast food or his own food.

Maybe that will change once he has his own burger. After all, he loves things with the “Trump” name.

Updated to reflect that Barrel is located in SE and started its pop-up before the election.