Posted on 10/21/2024 10:49:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In presidential politics, you have to meet potential voters where they are. So every four years, churches, college campuses and even barbershops become the mainstays of the presidential campaign circuit. But, this year, the contenders have added the McDonald’s fry station. On Sunday, Donald Trump walked into a Bucks County, Pa., McDonald’s and told the store owner that he was looking for a job, explaining that “I’ve always wanted to work at McDonald’s.”
The public’s image of the typical McDonald’s employee has overlapped with the elusive voter both parties are hoping to secure in the last days of the race. The Trump and Harris campaigns have relied on the American dream of industry and unbridled capitalism to tell a story about social mobility and who can deliver it to more Americans. The story of who owns and who works at McDonald’s is part of that story.
Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned in campaign ads and interviews her experience working at McDonald’s as a student, the Trump campaign has accused the vice president of lying about her Big Mac bona fides. Even the Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff’s revelation that he was a McDonald’s Employee of the Month has not lessened the accusation that Democrats do not know or understand the Golden Arches like Mr. Trump does. Mr. Trump resurfaced his unfounded claims that Ms. Harris never worked at McDonald’s in Bucks County.
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What a stupid NYT sentence! Of course “Ms. Harris never worked at McDonald’s in Bucks County”!
Well then NY Slimes investigate for yourself if Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s. We know you won’t being that you’re shills and in the tank for the Democrat Party.
when it comes to all things Trump the media always seems to preface “claims” with the term “unfounded”. and then everyone finds out his claims WERE founded. Q:how much egg can a liberal reporter collect on their face before they realize it? A:no one knows yet.
I won't hold my breath for the media to say that Harris's claims to have worked at McDonalds were "unfounded"
Unlike anyone ever, Trump must prove a negative.
“Q:how much egg can a liberal reporter collect on their face before they realize it? A:no one knows yet.”
Oh that’s a good one. 😉
some people like working at McD. Many others do it because it is an honest job and McD is always hiring. Most McD workers plan to stay there temporarily while in school or while saving something extra for their futures, and then move on.
I would work at McD if I needed a quick honest gig but I would not plan to stay there long-term.
I respect very greatly all the folks who go to work, including at McD, instead of just sitting on their backsides in their mamas’ basements watching porno tapes and complaining about the lives they refuse to even try living.
PS: I don’t even like most of the McD food, but that’s a different issue. President Trump, a milti-billionaire, has connected very well with millions of people who have the integrity and self-dignity to actually get off their butts and to go get a job. Good for him and good for them. Symbolism is important. And it communicates well.
FTA:
“Marcia Chatelain is a professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.”
This truly rancid one is a real DEII “ professor” since she never checked on whether Mamala actually worked at a McDonald’s and all the current records show Mamala didn’t. Really a piece of sloppy work for a genuine “professor.”
I just read it that way myself
A twitter meme.
New McDonalds ad featuring Trump.
https://x.com/TheJasonRink/status/1848100491768762678
My first job in college. Where I learned that if you have time to lean, you have time to clean. My now-grown daughters hated that expression.
Trump McJoy
Yes
People can learn a great deal of value for their lives from almost any honest work
only a “genuine professor” according to DEI standards. IF she has to qualify as a true professor without the weight of DEI backing there is NO WAY IN GOD’S GREEN EARTH she would have any degree higher than an associates degree.
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I would say that McDonald’s saying they have no record of Kamala ever having worked there makes Trump’s claim VERY founded. I’d also say Kamala’s lack of any corroborating evidence that she worked there makes her claim unfounded. But that’s just me - and anyone else who has a brain.
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