Donald J. Trump walked into one of his favorite restaurants Sunday and declared he was “looking for a job.”
Although not the person he photographed during subsequent photo shoots, he is certainly the one. Trump stopped by a McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia, which was closed to the public during his visit, where he briefly operated a fryer and handed out bags of food to pre-selected drive-thru customers, but the other person It was a play intended to attack and have a negative impact. For billionaire candidates to win back the White House, they need a certain amount of trust from working-class voters.
This visit combines his two obsessions. His well-documented love of fast food, especially McDonald’s, and his recent pattern of accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of lying about her summer job at McDonald’s without any evidence.
According to her campaign, Harris worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, during the summer after her freshman year at Howard University in 1983. A friend of Ms. Harris recently backed up that account, telling the New York Times that the vice president’s mother, who died in 2009, told her about the summer job years ago. McDonald’s representatives ignored media requests for information.
But Trump, who is known for wildly speculating about the backgrounds of his political opponents without evidence, reiterated that claim in an address to reporters from a drive-thru window in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania.
Trump, the son of a wealthy real estate developer, told reporters that it had been his longtime dream to work at the Golden Arches, and he listened intently as employees explained flyer technology.
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