Burger King is trolling Donald Trump because he can't spell hamburger

The US president misspelt hamburger in a tweet after serving fast-food for White House guests.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for a wall on the US-Mexican border, plunging the country into a shutdown over the matter. Source: AP

Fast food giants Burger King has mocked US President Donald Trump on social media after he misspelled the word 'hamburger' in a tweet.

Mr Trump said he was going to serve fast-food in the White House, which he paid for, to a visiting basketball team because the government shutdown meant there was little to no staff to cook.

But in the tweet announcing the fast food feast, Mr Trump wrote 'hamberder' instead of 'hamburger'.

Burger King and other social media users quickly piled in to mock Mr Trump.

Guests attending a reception for the Clemson Tigers grab fast food sandwiches in the State Dining Room of the White House. Source: AP

The White House said Mr Trump himself sprang for what he pronounced to be "great American food" for the visiting Clemson Tigers, winners of the US college football championship.

"We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many french fries, all of our favourite foods," Mr Trump told reporters, as one White House worker still on the job lit tapered candles.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for a wall on the US-Mexican border, plunging the country into a shutdown over the matter. Source: AP

"I want to see what's here when we leave, because I don't think it's going to be much," he said, before the players, dressed in dapper suits, flooded the room and piled their plates high.

About a quarter of the federal government has been shut down for the past 24 days after Trump dug in on a campaign pledge to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, demanding $US5.7 billion from Congress for the project.