What’s the deal with politicians always getting ice cream cones with reporters around to broadcast that they are getting ice cream?
It's for the optics. The common people feel closer to their political leaders when they line up for an ice cream cone on a hot summer day - just like them!
"See?," says Cranston to his wife Gladys, "They are regular people just like us."
This is also why they show up at Iowa state fairs every four years to order corn dogs.