Look at the crowd in the video below, and you can see what Trump means to Main Street USA. It reminds me of the parades growing up and scooping ice cream at Oxford Creamery. When you’re a kid, it’s about your hometown and having some spending money. Trump’s short clip of his time at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s restaurant has been watched over 24 million times on his Twitter (X.com) account alone, not to mention being plastered all over the internet.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/rA5FwAQWFy
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2024
Piers Morgan, a controversial character for sure, called Trump’s McDonald’s appearance “the best I’ve ever seen.” He wrote in the New York Post:
“Even if you flippin’ fries at McDonald’s,” Oprah Winfrey once said, “if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.”
I thought of this quote when Donald Trump turned up yesterday at a McDonald’s restaurant in suburban Philadelphia to work a shift making French fries, then handing bags of food to drive-through customers.
As political stunts go, this might have been the best I’ve ever seen, because it served two very powerful purposes in the presidential race.
First, it reminded voters that his rival, Kamala Harris, has repeatedly boasted about having a summer job at McDonald’s to make her sound more relatable to her fellow Americans, but to date, not a single person has been able to verify this.
This is quite extraordinary given how specific she has been, with her campaign team stating that she worked at McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in 1983 after her freshman year at Howard University, working on the cash register, french fries station and ice cream machine.
But then, she didn’t mention it in her memoir, nor does it appear on the 1987 résumé she submitted when applying for a position at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office despite listing her other work experiences.
It was like it never happened at all!
Even more intriguingly, the New York Times reported on Sunday: “In subsequent years, Ms. Harris talked so little about her long-ago job at McDonald’s that even some of her friends and close aides did not know she had worked there.”
Action Line: Why does Kamala Harris want Americans to believe she worked at McDonald’s? It’s because Americans know that the lessons you get working hard at a service job will stay with you forever and shape who you are. And that’s what makes lying about that experience unforgivable. Click here to subscribe to my free monthly Survive & Thrive letter.
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