I guess he thinks he’s one upping Harris or something? Weird.
“So why do you think you would be a good fit for a vice president?”
“Well, I worked in McDonald’s three decades ago so…”
Because sane people definitely put a McDonald’s job from their youth in their political career resume
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.
Why would he?
He also couldn’t get hired at McDonalds for real.
They don’t hire convicted felons IIRC.
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.
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.
Trump’s campaign sent him to McDonald’s because of Harris having worked there in college. 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.
I don’t often get jobs with a resume, but is it uncommon to drop low level and irrelevant jobs from your resume?
I dont think the IT firm i’m applying to cares if i worked at walmart in high school…
He’s really fixated on the Harris/McDonald’s thing. I honestly think with his cognitive decline, he can’t comfortably conceive something he loves and something he hates overlapping like this. I know that sounds insane, but let’s remember who we’re talking about.
He mentions it all the time.
I’ve literally already seen Trump supporting family members post about how Trump has worked at McDonald’s and Harris was lying about it, so that’s why he should run the country.
Did McDonald’s corporate agree to this political stunt? Or was it just one specific location that agreed for him to come in?
One specific franchise location and they were closed to customers during the visit with the staged customers all vetted by USSS and having gone through a rehearsal ahead of time to practice what they were going to do.
Someone else I just read compared this to a make-a-wish® activity.
trump is dying, and it was his last wish to see where the hamberders come from.
More like that time Michael Jackson paid to have a grocery store shut down for the day and filled with his friends and family as customers just so he could feel what it’s like to be a normal person.
Did he have some kind of people phobia? Why not just go to a grocery store?
I already know your going to say “but it’s MJ!?!” but honestly if he wore a baja jacket and some sweat pants with some tennis shoes or some beat up shower flat sandals. Everyone would just assumed he was another weirdo and advert their eyes. Then he would get the true shopping experience haha
A regular place would have soon been swarming with crazy fans had MJ showed up even unannounced.
Not if he pulled up in like a Subaru and did like 15 to 20 minutes of shopping. By the time they realized who he was and started dialing their friends on their flip phones he could be out the door with his frozen pizza, dunkaroos and mango juice.
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.
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.
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
I don’t think as a franchise owner you can just use the McDonald’s name, or can you?
That franchise owner is 100% going to catch heat for allowing this to happen without a corpo stamp of approval.
Good. Fuck 'em.
EDIT: Nevermind, corpos are both-siding losers.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/business/mcdonalds-trump-visit-statement/index.html
“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
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.
Undercover Boss, and it’s the most Corpoproganda thing you’ve ever seen. Tried watching an episode, they fired a guy for being addicted to drugs and talking shit about the boss for “Not knowing what it means to struggle”
The boss proved it by firing him. Didn’t offer him drug consueling, didn’t pay for rehab, nothing, and the way they edited it made it look like she was doing him a favor.
Complete clown show.
consistently acting as a walking shitpost since 2015 (earlier?)
MUCH earlier. That was his role in the 1980s.
I feel bad for the workers there. You see so many examples in the past of people meeting the President in “normal” situations and how it’s an experience of a lifetime to remember. I guess this still will be something to remember, but not in the way others have been.
“I once helped this old guy through a shift in fast food.”
“Yeah, how was that?”
“Terrible. He couldn’t understand basic stuff like cooking fries. I had to help him do everything. Oh, he was a former President too.”
I doubt even a few years ago when Carter was still building houses for people, no one had to walk him through stuff even more complex than cooking fries. Granted he’s had experience working for decades. Can you imagine Trump with a hammer or a power tool?
Totally. He’s mocking them on a number of different levels, and it’s extra fucked up:
- he’s been wealthy his entire life and never worked a job
- he’s doing this to mock Harris
- it’s not an actual representation of all the bullshit and hard work the people working there have to deal with
- it’s a campaign stunt
- he’s probably never even ordered in an actual McDonald’s before
- he has absolutely no clue what those people get paid
- those workers won’t even be eligible for the “no tax on tips” bullshit he’s trying to win people over with
There’s like a dozen more I could pick out, but these are just the most egregious.
It was entirely staged. Apologies in advance for the Reddit link:
https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g88apd/it_was_all_staged_trump_did_not_work_mcdonalds/
Of course. They’re all staged. His barbershop bullshit last week was the same thing.
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.
Opinion: The race isn’t actually close, Harris has basically already won, but they’re cooking the books for ratings.
Edit: Not sure why I’m being downvoted. I’m not saying the election is fixed or that you shouldn’t vote, for the love of God don’t repeat the mistake douchebags who thought “Hillary’s gonna win, so I won’t vote” made but… I figured her victory was a foregone conclusion.
This is ugly but you have to admit he is putting in the hours now that Uncle Joe isn’t running.
He sure is putting in 2 or maybe 3 hours of work a day. What a ball of energy!
He’s doing nothing, canceling interviews, not showing up for debates because he’s exhausted and scared, and dancing in stage instead of answering questions.
He’s too old to run and everyone knows it
Putting in the hours cancelling interviews and wandering aimlessly at rallies, heh
