Donald Trump on Sunday took to a McDonald's restaurant, where he handed patrons their orders through the drive-thru window and mocked Vice President Kamala Harris, but his critics did not buy it. Trump's campaign sent him to McDonald's because of Harris having worked there in college. Trump has ...

I guess he thinks he’s one upping Harris or something? Weird.

  • ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    6 hours ago

    Doing fast food work when your are famous as a publicity stunt is desperate. One day as a pampered trainee with someone shadowing you all day is no where near the same as living day in and day out working a minimum wage fast food job, serving up shit food for customers that treat you like shit.

    If i pulled up to someone doing this id laugh and ask “wtf is this” and tell them how it is. You fundamentally can’t live the fast food experience when you have billions and fast food employees are trying to figure out how to get by when they make minimum wage and never get enough hours to get any benefits.

    • lohky@lemmy.world
      21·
      5 hours ago

      But that wasn’t even what happened. The store was closed lmao. He made a batch of fries and fucked off. I honestly can’t believe he even agreed to this outside of that he probably got free McDonald’s.

      • ziggurat@lemmy.world
        14·
        5 hours ago

        This mcdonald’s was not owned by mcdonald’s. It was a franchisee who owned the restaurant. One that has actively publicly campaigned against increasing the minimum wage. Now you know why it was allowed to happen there

            • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 hour ago

              “McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next President. We are not red or blue – we are golden.”

              suuuuurrrreee

          • ziggurat@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 hours ago

            You may very well be correct, but do you not think this person thinks (I hate putting the two following words next to each other) president trump will protect him? Of course the incontinent orangutan doesn’t give a flying 🦆 if people who lick his 🍑 gets in trouble on his behalf

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 hours ago

      It was supposedly 15m, but I think that may be an exaggeration just like every thing else this broke ass sob I bragging about

      They also closed the whole restaurant so that only Republicans that were screened first could come to the restaurant.

      He took orders (I don’t know if it was plural) in the drive through. The people filmed, and asked him to raise the minimum wage, but you know how he answers questions when hes on his adhd meds.

      It was a glorified photoshoot, I wonder if it cost extra money to be allowed the privilege to attend and maybe have his dandruff in your fries

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours ago

      There’s a show, maybe on CNBC, where CEO’s put on a disguise and work as fresh hire trainees at their own companies. They talk candidly to their co-workers and either fire their ass, or give them thousands of dollars to accomplish their dreams, maybe pay for education. I have no idea how authentic it is, but I imagine if Trump did this show it would be him who was fired at the end. And then arrested for reckless endangerment.

  • Ulrich_the_Old
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Nobody believes that trump is capable of working a shift at mcdonalds or any other job. He has zero skills.

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    10 hours ago

    Man I hate these fucking headlines. The race is insanely close and news headlines like this aren’t helping that. It just helps reinforce Trump’s narrative that media outlets are irrationally out to smear him.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      It’s not really “media outlets” there are about a half dozen of these places “raw story” being one of the biggest offenders that sensationalize absolutely everything that Trump does. I’m pretty sure that they are AI generated at this point.

  • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 hours ago

    Yeah, they should have pulled Bush out of retirement and paraded him around. Have him tell people to vote a certain way based on their skin color. Way less desperate.

    Of course, Bush ACTUALLY retired and doesn’t seem as thirsty for the limelight as other ex-presidents.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    22·
    14 hours ago

    Dress him up in a fireman hat, let him honk a truck horn, unwrap and rewrap a cheeseburger at a closed restaurant.

    Grandpa is all gone

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      12 hours ago

      It was a closed restaurant? So that’s why.

      I was wondering why McD HQ hadn’t thrown a fit when AgentOrange got to serve actual people actual food in an actual McDonald’s. I mean the rumors about his personal hygiene would indicate that the restaurant didn’t live up to the McDonald’s hygienic standards.

      You can say what you want about their food, but the hygiene at McDonald’s is impeccable 9.9 times out of 10. So having an unwashed civilian, without training, serving innocent civilians just seemed strange.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    13·
    13 hours ago

    You know it’s not real because there’s no machines beeping loudly in his ear because a car was in the drivethru for >16 seconds, or manager screaming “Hurry the hell up where are those large fries!?!” or people throwing crap at him for tiktok cred.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    114·
    20 hours ago

    Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald’s, in large part because the job wasn’t listed on her later resume for a legal job.

    This man doesn’t know how resumes or jobs work.