“In working at a McDonalds, Trump is directing attention to Harris’ lies, showing humility, and demonstrating that he understands our system and the importance of entry level jobs. This is a great man” – Top comment on the Fox News article “Trump teases he will ‘do everything’ while working behind McDonald’s counter in crucial swing state,” posted Saturday.
Where to start with this one. Now on one hand it is true that we’ve yet to see definitive proof Harris did indeed work at a McDonald’s when she was 19. Nothing in the form of photos, paystubs, testimonials from coworkers, whatever. Thing is, that’s not really on her campaign because who among her voters actually gives a shit. It’s on the other guys, the James O’Keefe and other “gotcha” douchebags to come up with it and the only “proof” they have is that Harris left it off her employment history in 1987 when she applied for a law clerk position with the Alameda County, California DA’s office, as if McDonald’s was somehow relevant. Also worth noting is that the Washington Free Beacon only posted two pages of the application and the three positions listed were filled up. For all we know they intentionally omitted the pages where she did list McD’s.
“THIS SECTION MUST BE FILLED OUT; HOWEVER, you may attach a resume or other relevant documents to further describe your qualifications,” it says at the top of the second of only two pages the Free Beacon included in their article (the other was the cover) calling the vice president a liar, prompting her opponent to spend a not insignificant fraction of the remaining waking hours before the election “working” the fryer at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. And one of his ballsucking cultists to work backward to ascribe some sort of deeper message to it in an internet comment.
The Fox News article itself seems ambivalent at best in its tone. “With 2½ weeks to go until Election Day, Trump remains locked in a tight presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris. And Trump continues to claim Harris never worked at McDonald’s,” the propaganda network writes, spacing those two sentences apart with a line break to underscore as best they can that it just might not be the best use of his time. The writer doesn’t even bother with the resume “controversy” or call Harris’s assertion into question, just picking through both candidates’ quotes on the matter over the last few months before ending with the exchange between Trump and Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade during his Friday bit. “You don’t think she ever worked in McDonald’s?” asked Kilmeade. “I know she didn’t. We checked it out,” Trump said. “They said she never worked here.”
I’m a McDonald’s chef — Trump has no idea how difficult it is to be a french fry cook https://t.co/wuDNDJvOig pic.twitter.com/vrkQcocWjo
— New York Post (@nypost) October 18, 2024
If Fox News expressed thinly-veiled wariness over the strategic value of Trump going to a fucking McDonald’s and working the fryer, sister publication the New York Post was considerably less subtle about it – though they still outsourced their discomfit to a former Gold Arches chef. Note the “ratio” from MAGA Twitter assholes, many of whom ripped the Post for calling the guy a chef.
“You’re not a Chef bro 😂,” wrote one D-lister with nearly half a million followers, proving he didn’t read the article, because the guy literally was a corporate level chef in the company’s headquarters.
Mike Haracz, who the Post describes as the “former manager of culinary innovation for the US menu,” told them that “Being a McDonald’s employee is more difficult than a lot of people imagine,” and “unless the scenario is fabricated in his favor, he will not do a good job.” Meaning that the owner of the franchise (who Donald says is a friend) is going to have to figure out a way to stage it to look like Trump is doing it effectively – and also not spilling hot grease all over himself and/or others.
“I don’t believe he has ever worked in a restaurant in any capacity,” Haracz told the shitty right wing tabloid. “He’s probably going to have a fully staffed, if not overly-staffed, kitchen with all of the best crew members surrounding him. It’s likely that there will also be things in place to make sure that no disgruntled customers are yelling at him over the counter for their fries.”
Again, it’s pretty freaking obvious the Murdoch crew REALLY don’t want their fragile candidate anywhere near a McDonald’s kitchen – a message that, again, was lost on their fans.
“I was on the ‘Fry Station’ every Sunday, 6-2, (I came in early to put new grease in the vats.) at a McDonald’s in North Carolina, circa 1969-1971. The rest of the week I was on the grill. I was in high school. Trust me, the fry vat is not that hard, as long as you can avoid the occasional grease spatters. BTW I can prove I worked there, too. You want her to prove she worked there? Ask her to give the name of one of her Managers and the names of a couple of people she worked with. Also, what was her hourly pay rate? (Mine was $1.15 an hour.) Her work schedule? What was her work station? If she really worked there, these are easy questions to answer,” says the top comment on the Post’s article, screaming for some “investigative reporting” that will most likely ultimately fail to disprove Harris’s claim that she worked at a McDonald’s in the summer of 1983.