Brazilian woman who spoke with Trump at McDonald’s was not deported

As a naturalised U.S. citizen, she cannot be deported.

Feb 03, 2025

CLAIM

The Brazilian woman who spoke with Donald Trump during a campaign event at McDonald’s was deported back to Brazil.

BACKGROUND

Nayara Andrejczyk gained attention in October of last year after asking President Donald Trump not to let the United States “become Brazil” during a campaign event at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.

“Mr. President, please don’t let the United States become Brazil, my native Brazil, please,” Andrejczyk said.

“We’re gonna make it better than ever, ok?” Trump replied.

Claims circulated on social media in Brazil that she was among the first deported migrants returned to Brazil as efforts to crack down on illegal immigration were ramped up in the days following Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

These claims were widely shared across social media platforms in Brazil including by Marilu Rodrigues, the president of the PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party) in Osasco, São Paulo.

METHOD

To verify the claim, we checked Andrejczyk’s social media accounts. On January 25, she posted two videos, including a live broadcast in which she responded to the claims that she had been deported.

“I was not deported because I am an American citizen,” Andrejczyk says in one of the videos in which she also points out snow on the ground.

“There’s no snow in Brazil, right?” she said as she drove. “You can see the snow there. You can also see a little bit here behind me, there’s snow, everything is white over there, see? So, this is just to say that I’m in the United States, okay?”