Feasterbyeley Trevose, Pa. — Donald Trump is really stepping up his presidential campaign.
Wearing an apron and red tie, the former president served fries and political intrigue against his rivals behind the counter at McDonald’s on Sunday, but a monster crowd was at the fast-food restaurant in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. Gathered.
McDonald’s has long been one of President Trump’s favorite chains, but Sunday’s visit to the Golden Arches also aims to reignite doubts about Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that she worked at McDonald’s in the 1980s. Ta.
“I’ll tell you what. It’s a great franchise. It’s a great company… Look at the crowd over there. Look at how happy everyone is. They’re happy because they want hope,” the manager said. spoke to reporters from the drive-thru window.
“I work 15 minutes more than Kamala.”
McDonald’s Trump served what his campaign called “October Surp Fries,” working the counter and joking with customers who drove in. His campaign also released a video of him happily preparing a Happy Meal.
It was obvious they loved it.
“I put salt in it. Don’t touch it. It’s delicious and it’s filling,” Trump said as he stuffed the fries into a container, a nod to his germophobic tendencies. are.
More than 1,000 MAGA Donald followers lined the streets of Lower Southampton Township to meet President Trump and say “Long Live the Chef” at a McDonald’s in the important Bucks County suburb of Philadelphia.
“I’ll take whatever he gives me,” one man told the Post.
“Whether you love him or hate him, I think it’s just amazing to see this moment in history,” Katelyn Hanlon, 33, a Feasterville hairdresser wearing a pink MAGA hat, told the Post. spoke. “It’s a really great moment, but I’m obviously supporting him.”
“Mr. President, thank you for taking the bullet for us,” an excited supporter said after Trump handed out two bags of food in an SUV.
“Wow, thank you, Mr. President,” my husband said. “You’re the one who made it possible for ordinary people like us to see you.”
Trump seemed to enjoy this McFlurry activity, quipping, “I love this job.” He said he is eager to come back and do it again.
He also handed out fries to reporters outside the drive-thru window. “It’s kind of a bribe, but I’m fine with $1 fries,” he joked. “Someone please come here and take them.”
Harris, 60, has repeatedly claimed that she worked in a fast-food restaurant during her undergraduate studies and has used the story to emphasize her middle-class roots and try to juxtapose them with her billionaire enemies. did.
Her campaign notes that she worked as a cashier, fry station and ice cream machine at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in 1983 during the summer between her freshman and sophomore years at Howard University. There is.
“One of the reasons I tell you that I worked at McDonald’s is because there are people working at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to support their families,” Harris told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhl last month. . “I worked there as a student.”
“I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and our responsibility to meet those needs.”
Trump and his allies say her 1987 resume makes no mention of her allegedly working at McDonald’s, and there is a general lack of evidence that she ever worked there. We’ve been arguing about it. Her campaign accused her of making baseless claims.
Sunday would have been Harris’ 60th birthday, which Trump was told by reporters during a brief chat.
“Happy Birthday Kamala! She’s turning 60 so I’m going to give her flowers. Maybe I’ll buy her fries… maybe I’ll buy her a McDonald’s hamburger. Kamala Birthday Happy day,” he said.
“It’s a strange place to hold a press conference there,” he told his new-found colleagues after finishing the press conference.
In a separate exchange with reporters, President Trump said he had recently called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but offered few details.
“They certainly had an advantage, and fortunately they didn’t listen to Biden and Harris.”
Supporting some of these jabs is the fact that vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was found to have embellished some details of his biography.
The 45th president has long been a fan of McDonald’s. With White House chefs furloughed during the government shutdown that spread in 2019, he ordered fries and fries at McDonald’s to honor the Clemson Tigers’ victory in that year’s National College Football Championship. He famously ordered over 300 hamburgers in addition to other menu items.
President Trump said he personally paid for the meal, which was served on a silver platter at the state cafeteria.
While in the political spotlight, Trump has been seen smiling next to various McDonald’s orders he has received from aides, and has occasionally taken personal orders as well.
Last year, for example, he stopped at a McDonald’s in East Palestine, Ohio, in the aftermath of a toxic chemical spill. The effect was to release toxic substances into the nearby environment, causing a health crisis.
Donald Trump Jr. previously joked, “I think my dad knows more about the McDonald’s menu than Kamala Harris.”
When asked what he would order from McDonald’s, the 45th president said, “I like everything. I like everything. Everything.”
He also mocked Harris, who complained that the fly station was too hot.
“She said it was very hot. It was very hard work,” Trump fumed.
MacDonald’s campaign suspension comes amid a fierce battle to win Pennsylvania, which has the most electoral votes of any key battleground state.
President Trump announced on Saturday that he would “go to McDonald’s to make fries” during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. “I think I’ll do it tomorrow. I’ll be standing on some fries somewhere in Pennsylvania.”
On Sunday evening, President Trump planned a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was scheduled to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets game at Acresure Stadium.
