Trump works fry cooker at McDonald’s
By Ryan King and Carson Swick
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FEASTERVILEE-TREVOSE, Pennsylvania — Call it the Art of the Deal’icious.
Former President Donald Trump served up some fries and political shade against his rival during a behind-the-counter stint at McDonald’s Sunday, which drew a monster crowd to the Feasterville-Trevose, Pa. fast food restaurant.
McDonald’s has long been one of Trump’s favorite chains, but his visit to the golden arches Sunday doubled as an effort to re-up his doubts over Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that she worked there in the 1980s.
“I’m going because she lied,” Trump, 78, teased on “Fox and Friends” last week, noting that he is “going to do everything” when working the kitchen.
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Donald Trump’s stop at McDonald’s was intended to needle Kamala Harris over her claims that she worked there in the 1980s.
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Scores of people lined Street Road in Lower Southampton Township in an attempt to order food from the former president at the McDonald’s restaurant.
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Some of the patrons in line didn’t seem to be deadset on any order in particular.
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Donald Trump worked the flyer.
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“I’ll just take whatever he gives me,” one man told The Post.
“Love him or hate him, I just feel it’s really cool to see this moment in history,” Caitlin Hanlon, 33, a hairdresser from Feasterville who as wearing a pink MAGA hat, told The Post. “It’s a really cool moment, but I obviously support him.”
Harris, 60, has repeatedly maintained that she worked at the fast food joint while studying for undergrad and used the tale to highlight her middle-class roots, seeking to juxtapose it with her billionaire foe.
Her campaign has specified that she worked the cash register, fry station and ice cream machine at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, California, in 1983, during the summer between her freshman and sophomore year at Howard University.
“Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family,” Harris told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle last month. “I worked there as a student.”
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The former president was seen taking orders from the drive-through.
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“I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility, then, is to meet those needs.”
Trump and his allies have harped on how her 1987 resume made no mention of her purported stint at McDonald’s as well as the overall lack of proof that she did. Her campaign has shot back, accusing him of making a baseless allegation.
Underpinning some of those jabs is the fact that vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz was found to have embellished some details of his biography.
The 45th president has long been a fan of McDonald’s. Famously during the government shutdown that spilled into 2019, he ordered over 300 burgers in addition to fries and other menu items from McDonald’s to honor the Clemson Tigers for winning the national college football championship that year because the White House chefs were on furlough.
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An assortment of meals from McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A in the State Dining Room.
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The former president ordered McDonald’s to celebrate the Clemson Tiger’s championship win.
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Trump said he personally paid for the meal, which was decked out on silver platters in the State Dining Room.
Throughout his time in the political limelight, Trump has been seen smiling next to various orders from McDonalds that he’s received from aides and occasionally gotten in personal as well.
Last year, for instance, he stopped by a McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio, in the aftermath of a toxic chemical spill that unleashed harmful substances into the nearby environment and created a health crisis.
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Donald Trump visited a McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio last year.
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Donald Trump Jr. once joked, “I think my father knows the McDonald’s menu much better than Kamala Harris ever did.”
The McDonald’s campaign stop comes amid a pitched battle to win Pennsylvania, which has the largest quantity of Electoral College votes among the seven major battleground states.
“I’m going to McDonald’s to work the french fry,” Trump previewed during a rally in Latrobe, Pa. Saturday. “I think I’m doing it tomorrow, and I think it’s in a place in Pennsylvania, and I’m going to stand over that french fry.”
Later in the day Sunday, Trump planned a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was slated to attend the Pittsburgh Steelers’s game against the New York Jets in Acrisure Stadium
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