Donald Trump will ‘work the fry cooker’ at McDonald’s in Pa. this weekend
The stop is part of Trump's effort to tamp down on his Democratic opponent Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign message about her middle-class upbringing and time working at McDonald's.
Anyone wants to get some McDies with big fries? 🍟 🍔😏
Given his rapidly accelerating cognitive decline, I wouldn't let him anywhere near a deep fryer. He's liable to accidentally burn that restaurant down if he has another 'dancing episode' or something similar.
Wonder if Don will make the Trump family recipe for fried ice
One can only hope.
"One order for fried ice, Don!"
Either that or a pressurized spray can of oil (nonstick cooking spray).
Let it happen, nothing of value will be lost.
Funny, I was thinking the opposite, but for the same reasons.
He'll take one basket out of a fryer and say he worked as a fry cook for the rest of the campaign. Make him do it for a single hour at a peak time without any help and see what happens. Bet he or someone there will end up in the hospital and no one will get any fries.
We'll get photos of him in his suit holding a fry basket, and the dupes will say he's "just like us."
A new and pristine basket that will work just as hard as he will.
And the basket will be upside down.
Make him live off of the salary for a month as well
Easy there, satan. No need to be inhumane.
He won't do a second debate release his medical records, or go on 60 Minutes, but he'll stand in front of a fry cooker for a 20 minute photo op because he thinks Kamala Harris lied about... checks notes* working at McDonalds? And what exactly does this prove? Is anybody really going to be fooled into believing that the dude born into wealth and living in a gilded tower will suddenly manifest some empathy for the common man's plight by working one shift at a Mickey D's?
I'd be surprised if he actually works a full shift. And either way, I guarantee there is no way he gets the average employee treatment. Aside from the bad press it would generate for them with all the cameras around, there is a real danger of hurting the fuhrer's feelings and being put on his probably-not-so-metaphorical hit list.
Is anybody really going to be fooled into believing that the dude born into wealth and living in a gilded tower will suddenly manifest some empathy for the common man’s plight by working one shift at a Mickey D’s?
Yes. Yes they will. Faux News and Newsmax will make sure of that. :(
Apparently he thinks that showing McDonald's work would be way too easy for Kamala Harris is an attack on her.
As a general rule, I'm against harassing food service employees. But if someone were to throw a shake at him, I think we could let it slide this one time
Wait a minute. When did they repair the machine?
I'll bring my own....
I hope he doesn't stop for 30 minutes to listen to that milkshake song.
I hope the moron listens to his inner voices and reaches into the fryer to grab the fries.
I kinda hope he decides to listen to music and sway while it bubbles over and causes a grease fire. Which he then tries to extinguish with water.
Hope everyone knows where the exits are.
Hope everyone else knows where the exits are.
FTFY.
Just sticks his face right in the boiling oil to try to start chowing down.
They hiring convicted felons now?
Remeber that PSA where the woman gets her face melted off cause by a grease vat. Yeah I do too.
Try to count the number of articles this psychopath gets compared to Harris.
It’ll probably be more like standing next to the fryer with a teenager nearby to make sure he doesn’t fuck everything up.
Hehe McDonald Trump
Spectacular
🎵 Old McDonald made some fries E - I - E - I - O 🎵
Googling this, it seems like he's trying to EMPHASIZE Harris working there when she was younger. If he actually does this, it will backfire spectacularly.
If he says she's lying about working there, it just looks like an insane conspiracy theory because it's one of the most common jobs. It's not like an impossible thing.
If he tries to say it's easy so no one should be impressed with her, he just insults every fast food worker in America.
I think this is a really smart move if he never mentions Harris, it makes him look more down to Earth and humble which...he needs. If he's doing it as a commentary on Harris, it's going to backfire.
If him standing up physically mocking and verbally mocking a disabled veteran didn't backfire, I'm past the point of thinking anything he does at all will alienate a single member of his base.
I can't imagine what possible reason someone would have to lie about working at McDonald's. I really can't.
Maybe she really worked at Carl's Jr.
I can't imagine he'd care about insulting every fast food work in the country, and all of his voters love to pick on them so I don't see how that would even hurt him.
Best case scenario this is going to be "Vance ordering donuts" levels of kind of sad. It's the easiest job in the restaurant, and he'll do it kind of shitty for 10 minutes while people around him are putting in, transferring, and bagging fries. Then he'll pretend he was a big help.
Nah. He'll hold a utensil for a photo op, then go get the food he had an underling procure for him.
I wouldn't eat any food that he prepares.
Oh god. I hope that goes as every law in the universe demands that it must go: horribly wrong.
But it’ll probably be another law-breaking trump act with zero consequences.
There's no way he knows how to work a deep frier
Nah. Let him cook. 🤣
What shade of orange will the become when he inevitably puts water in it and gets burning oil all over himself?
Someone needs to tell them that this won’t be the win they think it would.
Best case is a good photo op, but even then, he is already associated with McDonald’s and fast food. I feel like in terms of meme potential, it would probably backfire.
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Trump with a little headset waving his hands "trust me, it's a big beautiful mac, the biggest mac, the Haitians hunted it"
Here's hoping for a hot oil explosion
Somebody get this man some ice to fry!
I truly doubt the he could be trusted with that job!
He will be employee of the month. Top seller.
"Welcome to McDonald's.....you want the Big Mac. Sooooo beautiful and soft.....Just like Ivanka. so beautiful.. And those golden h.o.t. fries so hot, some say the hottest."
I worked as a "fry cook" at McDonald's when I was 14 years old. At 14. It's not a difficult job at all, but can be stressful when it's very busy.
He'll likely empty a bag of frozen fries into a container, lower the container into the vat, take it out, salt them, then fill a couple boxes to get his pathetic photo op.
Lol. I think that is very optimistic of you. He won't get anywhere near hot oil.
Yeah putting cold fries in and waiting til they're done takes way more patience than he has. What's it take, like 15 or 30 seconds? I bet the most he'd ever do will go over to a fryer that has a basket in, take it out and call it a day.
But more realistically he'll show up somewhere vaguely near a McDs and ramble incoherently, poop his diaper, and go home.
Paywall.
But yeah, let's see him reach into the fryer after his toupee falls in.
I hope his hairpiece falls in and he reaches in after it.
There's a scene from the movie Scotland, PA involving a fryer. That's how I imagined this ending after i first read the news.
Wait! I think I’ve seen this one already! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_TPQkDjSM
This means absolutely nothing until he has to work there 40 hours a week for at least 5 years for bare minimum survival, with no cameras, no medical care, and he has to live in a homeless shelter because he doesn't earn enough to afford rent for the cheapest apartment.
Haha he will actually die this weekend of a heart attack and a brain aneurysm. That kind of attention will bring the customers. He will either have to commit and look like a fool or he'll bail out and look like a fool and a coward.
It is not easy work.
I'm betting he will step in the kitchen, hold onto the basket, get one photo and leave
Everyone knows back line is where the action is. Fries are for the special kids who can't do anything else.
He really is trying to take a 15 year old's job; I wonder what he'll do when the fryer is overheated and it shuts off. Not too many employees even know what to do then, so assuming that fry cook is easy would probably be laughable, not to mention I'm willing to bet Kamala knows how to fix those fryers too.
I worked at MC Donald's in the past and was way out of my league the first couple days.
If he really decides to do it, I bet he will look extremely out of place, even if he only does the fries.
I hope he doesn't fall in. All that orange makeup might contaminate the food.
Harris, for her part, continues to use her middle-class upbringing and time working at McDonald’s in advertisements and stump speeches as a contrast with Trump, who had his early career started at his father’s real estate company before growing to the billionaire he is today.
this is fake solidarity
no way that either of the two candidates have any idea of what working at a McDonald's for less than a living wage and never being able to get anywhere feels like
fuck Trump and fuck Harris and fuck their cake too
Agree, working at a McDonald's today is not about the "work". It's about the pay and the ability to live the lifestyle that job would afford. Which is not something either candidate would ever experience, after todays wages, cost of living, and inflation is factored in.
However, Harris probably has an idea of what that life would be like and has the ability to empathise. Where as Trump will just use the photo op as a way to get free McDonald's
I think one of the two most beneficial things that could be done for America would be to enact a proper living wage that is in line with inflation. Not only would that help the minimum wage workers but it would also increase tax revenue.
However the best way to increase the tax revenue would be to tax the rich. Either way, Trump would definitely not do either.
Didn't she work at McDonald's as a teenager? Presumably paid minimum wage?
I think the point GP was trying to make was that Harris didn’t rely on the McDonald’s wage to put food on the table
Getting downvoted for what? You're not wrong.
If I had to guess, it's both because their comment can be read as them asserting that someone who worked at McDonald's... doesn't know what working at McDonald's is like, and because they're asserting that the there's no realistic difference in life experience between the white male child of a corrupt multigagillionaire and the black-indian female child of a research oncologist and an economics professor.
Were either of them poor growing up? No. Are there many steps between "poor" and "having a gold toilet" that a person can be at? Oh you betcha, and suggesting there isn't is either myopic or intentionally deceptive.