--- title: In-N-Out Burger Donates Thousands to Republican Party description: Opponents of the GOP are calling for an In-N-Out boycott after the burger chain donated thousands to the California Republican Party. canonical: https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-30T16:49:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:36.747Z og:title: People Want 'Out' of In-N-Out After Donation to Republican Party og:description: "Five Guys it is, then" og:url: https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42cdda87db992800/6989391286f68e5e5b6ea0a4/in-n-out-burger.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: In-N-Out-Burger-Sign og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Want 'Out' of In-N-Out After Donation to Republican Party twitter:description: "Five Guys it is, then" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42cdda87db992800/6989391286f68e5e5b6ea0a4/in-n-out-burger.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Customers Are Opting 'Out' of In-N-Out After $25,000 Donation to Republican Party > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 30, 2018 4:49 PM UTC  Signage is displayed outside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. Signage is displayed outside an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 30, 2018 4:49 PM UTC Opponents of the GOP are calling for an [In-N-Out](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/4674/in-n-out-quietly-adds-hot-cocoa-its-first-new-item-in-15-years) boycott after the [burger chain](http://www.extracrispy.com/culture/4627/you-can-now-pay-with-your-face-at-this-burger-chain) donated thousands to the [California Republican Party](http://time.com/5013618/california-gop-trump/). According to a [public filing](http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2287034&amendid=0) on the California Secretary of State’s website, the fast food corporation gave $25,000 to the state’s Republican Party on Tuesday. However, the news of the donation didn’t start to go viral until the filing was tweeted out by Washington, D.C.-based reporter Gabe Schneider the next day. “In-N-Out added a new item to their secret menu,” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/gabemschneider/status/1034921393769590786) Following Schneider’s post, some angry customers began calling for a boycott of In-N-Out. “I hate that In-N-Out has probably donated to the Republican Party before now, and I gave them my business,” one Twitter user wrote. “They are my #1 favorite. No more, though.” > [](https://twitter.com/MotherResister/status/1035093305413984257) But others weren’t quite ready to give up their double-doubles and animal style fries. > [](https://twitter.com/IDoTheThinking/status/1035076530907435009) See some of the reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/status/1034971932007981056) > [](https://twitter.com/GustavoArellano/status/1035155945876160513) > [](https://twitter.com/BrotherWm108/status/1035078327361363968) > [](https://twitter.com/CarolynBCwrites/status/1034933162403672071) > [](https://twitter.com/Karoli/status/1035039246657245186) > [](https://twitter.com/DannoCue/status/1035063539990376448) > [](https://twitter.com/rrigonan/status/1035200322157862912) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/"},"headline":"Customers Are Opting 'Out' of In-N-Out After $25,000 Donation to Republican Party","datePublished":"2018-08-30T16:49:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:36.747Z","description":"\"Five Guys it is, then\"","url":"https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Companies","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42cdda87db992800/6989391286f68e5e5b6ea0a4/in-n-out-burger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42cdda87db992800/6989391286f68e5e5b6ea0a4/in-n-out-burger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"In-N-Out-Burger-Sign","caption":"In-N-Out Burger Sign","creditText":"Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5382788/in-n-out-donates-republican-party/","name":"Customers Are Opting 'Out' of In-N-Out After $25,000 Donation to Republican Party"}}]}] ```