McDonald’s CEO throws his mom under the bus
Letting Mom take the fall.
After becoming the face of 2026’s funniest fast-food self-own, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski is now joking that his mother is to blame for the comically dainty bite that turned the Big Arch promo into instant meme fodder.
In his sit-down interview with the WSJ, seen via Instagram, Kempczinski said the lessons he learnt from his mom in his youth might be the root of it all. “I blame it all on my mom, because she told me, ‘Don’t talk with your mouth full.’ And I think probably in that case, I should have just said, ‘you know what? To hell with it. I’m gonna go talk with my mouth full,” he stated.
To be fair to Kempczinski, all of this was delivered in what was clearly jest, and he seems to be pretty good-natured about the whole going wildly viral thing. He also sees the positives for McDonald’s as a whole. “For me, it was one of those things where it’s great that people are talking about the Big Arch, and I think when you go on to social media in general, you have to have a thick skin,” he said. We’re sure, though, that Kempczinski is hoping that this is all gonna blow over soon – but if his Mom wades in with a video of her own, then it could start up all over again.
Blaming Mom is pretty low.