California doughnut shop under fire after owners donated $1m to Donald Trump

A California doughnut store has faced backlash pursuing a important donation from its co-owner's startup to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee.

Andrew Dudum, co-owner of George's Donuts & Merriment successful San Francisco and co-founder and CEO of the telehealth institution Hims & Hers, precocious donated $1 cardinal to Trump's inaugural committee, according to a study by the San Francisco Chronicle.  

Although the donation came straight from Dudum's wellness startup, the fallout implicit the sizable publication is present affecting the café, with a question of antagonistic reviews flooding its Yelp and Google pages. 

The café has present been plagued by a barrage of respective one-star reviews connected Google successful the past 24 hours, though astir of the caller antagonistic reviews connection nary feedback oregon person been removed.

'Oh gosh! $1 cardinal donations to Trump by this cafe's owners? That's excessively much!! Will walk my wealth elsewhere from present on,' a lawsuit wrote connected George's Donuts' Yelp page. The reappraisal has since been removed. 

'Darn, and I wanted to effort George’s. No more,' said a Facebook idiosyncratic successful a post.

The eatery is simply a fashionable spot among locals, with lines to get successful spanning fractional a block, according to Google Reviews. 

On Tuesday, Dudum expressed his gratitude to Hims Chief Operating Officer Melissa Baird, who attended the inauguration, successful a station shared connected X.

The station featured a photograph of Baird with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump nominated arsenic Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The donut store co-founder besides highlighted a shared committedness with Trump and Kennedy to tackle the U.S. obesity epidemic.

'Let's commencement addressing the basal causes of conditions similar obesity and enactment the powerfulness backmost successful the hands of the idiosyncratic patient,' helium wrote connected X.

In an email to SF GATE, a Hims spokesperson emphasized the company's tendency to cultivate productive relationships with legislators and policymakers crossed the governmental spectrum who are actively moving to amended the healthcare system. 

'For acold excessively long, our existent healthcare strategy has forced Americans to conflict to get indispensable medications and the attraction they need, particularly for stigmatized conditions,' the connection read. 

'We deliberation we tin assistance alteration the presumption quo and prioritize diligent prime and well-being by engaging with the governmental leaders committed to doing this aforesaid work.'

The president's inaugural committee had already raised $170 cardinal and is connected way to scope up to $200 million.

Major tech companies, including Amazon, Meta, and Uber, were among the apical donors, according to Quartz.

At 1 point, the committee had to halt summons income for large donors wanting to be the swearing-in ceremonial owed to a reported shortage.

Million-dollar donors were placed connected waitlists for inaugural events arsenic tickets to galore of the Washington, D.C. events that play sold out. 

However, that didn't deter donors, with immoderate continuing to lend without receiving entree to the inaugural events successful return.

This magnitude much than doubles the funds raised by President Joe Biden's committee successful 2020, which raised conscionable $62 cardinal aft defeating Trump successful the statesmanlike election.

The donations screen the outgo of the inauguration ceremonies, including the oath of office, parade, and inaugural balls, arsenic these events are not funded by taxpayers. 

Any excess funds volition beryllium directed toward the aboriginal operation of President Trump's statesmanlike library.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to George's Donuts for comment.