{"id":428965,"date":"2026-09-07T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:42:21","slug":"our-food-is-poison-texas-bakery-draws-criticism-over-profane-anti-trump-cookies-ahead-of-dallas-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428965\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our Food Is Poison\u2019: Texas Bakery Draws Criticism Over Profane Anti-Trump Cookies Ahead of Dallas GOP Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Flower Mound bakery&#8217;s promotion of profanity-laced anti-Trump cookies drew wider attention Monday after Libs of TikTok highlighted the business&#8217;s Facebook post ahead of the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hive Bakery <a data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hivebakery\/posts\/we-read-that-orange-face-will-be-in-dallas-this-week-for-the-gop-midterm-convent\/1418257267106504\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Sunday that it plans to offer the cookies Tuesday through Saturday. A photo accompanying the post showed white-frosted cookies stamped with a profane message targeting President Donald Trump, with bee graphics obscuring part of the word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We read that Orange Face will be in Dallas this week for the GOP midterm Convention so we&#8217;re making special cookies Tuesday-Saturday!&#8221; the bakery wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Bakery criticizes Trump<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hive&#8217;s post listed grievances involving food, prices, abortion policy, immigration detention, wild horses, LGBT issues, what it described as a war with Iran, the Epstein files, tariffs, artificial intelligence data centers, Flock cameras and Project 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bakery wrote, &#8220;Our food is poison,&#8221; in the same post promoting the cookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also used the phrases &#8220;Orange Face,&#8221; &#8220;fa$cist regime&#8221; and &#8220;criminal clowns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re absolutely disgusted by these criminal clowns and what they&#8217;ve done to America, and even more repulsed that Orange Face will be in our city this week. F$&amp;k T$UMP,&#8221; Hive wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By 12:45 p.m. CDT Monday, the Facebook post displayed about 30,000 reactions and 1,300 comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In its <a data-ylk=\"slk:X post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/2096949082098975067\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X post<\/a>, Libs of TikTok called the promotion a &#8220;full blown TDS meltdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Can&#8217;t they just like sell cakes and not make it about Trump??&#8221; the account asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The X post displayed more than 68,000 views at the same time. Trump carried Denton County in 2024 by 13.1 percentage points, official <a data-ylk=\"slk:results;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/TX\/Denton\/122426\/web.345435\/#\/summary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>Trump heads to Dallas<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump will appear during both nights of the Republican Midterm Convention, which runs Wednesday and Thursday at American Airlines Center, and deliver Thursday&#8217;s keynote address. Vice President JD Vance will deliver Wednesday&#8217;s keynote, according to the official <a data-ylk=\"slk:schedule;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/gopconvention.com\/schedule\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">American Airlines Center will have capacity for more than 20,000 attendees, including media, an RNC spokesperson <a data-ylk=\"slk:previously told;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/dallasexpress.com\/city\/trumps-rnc-convention-could-fill-more-than-5000-dallas-hotel-rooms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">previously told<\/a> The Dallas Express.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is not Hive&#8217;s first viral political cookie promotion. On July 3, the bakery <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hivebakery\/posts\/1364554932476738\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it would not celebrate Independence Day, called MAGA &#8220;a cult&#8221; and later sold cookies displaying an upside-down American flag with the words &#8220;UNDER DISTRESS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The July promotion prompted boycott calls, supportive crowds and continued sellouts, KRLD <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/krld\/news\/local\/flower-mound-bakery-goes-viral-with-fourth-of-july-protest-cookies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Flower Mound bakery&#8217;s promotion of profanity-laced anti-Trump cookies drew wider attention Monday after Libs of TikTok highlighted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2485,102,149022,131101,111806,149023,27,29,28,14782,2558,149021],"class_list":["post-428965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-dallas","tag-hive","tag-hive-bakery","tag-libs-of-tiktok","tag-orange-face","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-dallas-express","tag-trump","tag-trump-hive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}