Donald Trump’s love affair with fast food has been well-documented for some time. Indeed, a few of his aides said that the now-ex-four president’s primary food groups were McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza, and Diet Coke at one point.

But it appears that Trump’s love of fast food extends beyond simply eating Big Macs for lunch on a regular basis, as a new report claims that after he lost the 2016 Iowa caucuses to then-Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, Trump’s aides had to placate him with McDonald’s as they told him to get his act together and stop whining.

Business Insider spoke with Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who said they had to placate the soon-to-be president over a McDonald’s meal in New Hampshire after he lost the 2016 Iowa caucuses to Ted Cruz in a definitive oral history of how Donald Trump gained control of the Republican party.

“I called the grown children — Don, Eric, and Ivanka — told them what was happening, brought Mr. Trump in, and, over a meal of McDonald’s in the back room of our Manchester office, told him that if he wants to continue to bitch about the results in Iowa and not lay out his vision for what he wanted to achieve for America to the people in New Hampshire, this race was over,” Lewandowski said.

“It was a very candid conversation, it was just he and I in the room,” the former campaign manager revealed.

“He listened intently. You walked out of that room. He went to a town-hall meeting with CNN that afternoon and Manchester. He came and ran a positive message.”

After losing Iowa to Cruz in 2016, Trump made no attempt to hide his rage. He ended by giving us a disturbing glimpse of how he would act if he lost the 2020 election by accusing his Republican opponent of fraud.

Trump, of course, spent the rest of the 2016 election cycle attacking Cruz with the lowest blows he could muster, including insulting Cruz’s wife and father — only for Cruz to almost immediately turn into a blubbering Trump sycophant after Trump’s victory, prompting Insider’s deep dive into Donald Trump’s rapid control of the Republican Party.