Posted on 10/23/2024 6:14:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania during a weekend campaign stop, intended at least partly in response to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has claimed that she worked at the fast food chain in 1983.
Trump has repeatedly accused Harris of lying about working there in an attempt to pose as someone with working-class roots. McDonald’s said in a statement that it did not keep employment records for all positions dating back from the early 80s. Trump has not provided any evidence to validate his claims that Harris did not work there.
After Trump’s McDonald’s appearance, where he scooped fries for a reported five minutes followed by 15 minutes of answering reporter’s questions at the drive-through window, Trump quipped, “I’ve worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala.” (The Washington Post reported that the McDonald’s was closed to the public during his visit and the “customers” were Trump supporters prescreened by the U.S. Secret Service. No one ordered food and received whatever Trump gave them. McDonald’s also issued a statement clarifying it is not endorsing a political candidate.)
According to McDonald’s, one in eight Americans have worked at the chain at some point in their life.
One Reddit user, who is a current employee at McDonald’s, told Yahoo News they saw the stunt as nothing more than what “a presidential candidate does during the election cycle.”
“[They] stop in random restaurants and pretend to understand everyday struggles,” they said. “No different [from] any other candidate before or likely long after.”
Another McDonald’s employee, who has worked at the chain for 17 years, told Yahoo News they saw the appearance as purely “a jab at Kamala.”
“It was because he thought it was an easy thing he could do,” they added.
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Yahoo went to reddit then copied and pasted every negative comment for anybody who hates Trump.
Modern "journalism". What a joke.
Of course it is a political stunt. But the political stunt can show that Trump is a real human being who doesn’t mind mucking in and doing “real work.” Trump sure didn’t do it because he wants to work for minimum wage or something. Doing a shift at MacDonalds and getting a couple hours pay probably costs him a couple of thousand in accounting costs.
“I’ve worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala”
More than she worked at anything for the past 4 years other than memorizing crap other people write for her.
And a tasteless unfunny joke at that.
Exactly.
It is up to her to validate the claim.
That’s right.
here is the real scoop
he did it for the employee discount
They claim Trump never proved that Kamala didn’t work there. I guess they don’t know you can’t prove a negative so it’s up to Kamala to prove the positive. This is the crap that yahoo calls “reporting.”
Master of the world’s oldest profession trying to work her way up in the world’s second oldest profession.
May I have a McFish and a medium fry please.
Did he get the large fries.
Trump also eats McDonalds. Almost like he’s not a rich, haughty snob who is too good for “peasant food”.
“I hope we continue chatting about McDonald’s for another week or so.”
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Ditto.
BTW. McDonald’s may not have records the Canada equivalent of the IRS will have tax records. If Kamala could prove this claim, she would do it in a minute. She can’t. And the MSM can’t either.
“Trump has not provided any evidence to validate his claims that Harris did not work there.”
1) Could be true, only devout leftists would care.
2) Khumulah is a pathological liar.
3) A plagiarist.
4) Consider the source; AP and Yahoo. LOL!
The first campaign stunt in 2,500 years of democracy!
The world is spiraling out of control.
Everything a politician does is a stunt, even the guys I like.
The difference is, some stunts work and others don’t.
The desperation by the left re: the McDonald’s stunt tells you it worked brilliantly.
Kamala insists, without evidence, that she once worked at McDonalds.
At this point idk, maybe she worked the parked lot. She said she "did" the cashier.
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