A Florida restaurant owner who has struggled to keep his doors open in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic received a surprise message of support from former President Trump.

“I would ask everyone to join us and help save Harry and the Natives. It’s a special restaurant, a very special place. People love it. It’s been around for a long time. It seems like a long time. But it has fallen prey to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s economy,” Trump told owner Harry MacArthur in a pre-recorded message on “Fox & Friends” on Friday.

“We have to keep the good ones open, especially when it comes to Florida. Florida is a very, very special place, and that’s a very, very good restaurant. So Harry and the Natives, keep it up. We love it. And you will be there for a long time.”

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‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Steve Doocy hosted the Harry and the Natives show in Hobe Sound, Florida, on Friday with owner Harry MacArthur. (Fox News)

Co-host Steve Doocy hosted Friday’s show from the packed restaurant in Hobe Sound after MacArthur wrote on Facebook that he would have to close unless something changed by Oct. 12.

However, the community rallied behind MacArthur by supporting a GoFundMe set up by his son Wyatt.

MacArthur called the response from Trump and the community “overwhelming.”

“It turns out everyone cares,” he said.

The restaurant has been in MacArthur’s family for 72 years. Although the company was originally run by his parents, MacArthur reopened the company as Harry and the Natives after his father died in the 1980s.

MacArthur’s company was nearly bankrupt in 2021, but after a “Breakfast with Friends” segment, the company was able to hold on. But the financial battle was not over yet.

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“Fox saved us then. Fox and Steve Doocy saved us, and we rode with that for the next six months and then everything else. And then the economy kept going south and everything else,” Macarthur told co host Steve Doocy.

“It’s a national thing. There won’t be any family restaurants.”

The latest 7News/Suffolk University/USA Today poll shows that the economy and inflation remain the top issue for voters at 34%. Since the Biden-Harris administration took office in 2021, prices in the Sunshine State have risen 21.7%.

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