“I always wanted to work at McDonald’s, but I never did.” A look back at one of the most surreal highlights of the presidential campaign from last week.
For the first time
Donald Trump “worked” in “the real world” for the first time in 78 years at an election campaign event.
A McDonald's
The former president can now claim to have worked in a McDonald’s, despite accusing Kamala Harris without evidence of lying about her experience in the restaurant chain when she was a student at Howard University in Washington.
A publicity stunt
Trump was in Festerville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, for a publicity stunt for his election campaign. The former president introduced himself to the restaurant owner by asking, “I’m looking for a job.” He will now be able to boast of being part of the statistic that 1 in 8 Americans has worked at McDonald’s.
The real reason
As soon as he arrived, Trump took the opportunity to make a comment about his rival being the real reason he was in the restaurant: “I’m fighting someone who said she did it, but it turned out to be a completely bogus story.”
Without proof
Trump claims without proof to have shown that Kamala Harris never worked at a McDonald’s while in college, but according to a representative of the Kamala Harris campaign, the vice president was employed at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, in the summer of 1983.
Always dreaming
A restaurant employee showed him how to fry fries… then, a strange statement to the effect that he had always dreamed of working at McDonald’s: “I always wanted to work at McDonald’s, but I never did.”
Drive-through service
In addition to learning how to fry, Trump answered reporters and served his supporters at the drive-thru of a McDonald’s that was closed to the public for the occasion. A reporter asked him if he would accept the election results, an important question to which he replied, “Yes, of course, if it’s a fair election.”
Doubts
Trump always gives the same vague, unconvincing answer, while he and his Republican allies are already expressing doubts about the electoral process.
A few fries
However, this answer, which is worrying some people in the run-up to an election whose results look set to be very close, doesn’t seem to bother his supporters at all, who were delighted to be served a few fries by Donald Trump. The real question though is did Trump’s McDonald’s stunt had any effect on undecided voters?