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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's obsession with Harris and McDonald's gets even creepier
With 40 days left in the election cycle, Donald Trump appears to be focused at least as much on Kamala Harris' fast food experience as any other issue.
Link to tweet
Even by Trump standards, this has become rather creepy.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-kamala-harris-mcdonalds-obsession-creepy-election-2024-rcna172701
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Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump declared, never worked at McDonalds. It was a fake story. It was a fake story; the press now refuses to write it because its so, you know, this is a simple one. She said she worked at McDonalds and she didnt. ... It was a lie. She never worked at McDonalds over the hot french fries.
The GOP candidate quickly added that he plans to go to a McDonalds in two weeks its always two weeks, isnt it? and he intends to work the french fries. Trump concluded, I will have worked longer and harder at McDonalds than she did if I do that even for half an hour.
If the rhetoric seemed at all familiar, its because Trump has been obsessed to an unhealthy degree with the vice president having worked at McDonalds as a college student.......
In other words, with fewer than six weeks before Election Day, the Republican nominee appears to be focused at least as much on this issue as anything else.
That, of course, is utterly bonkers, in part because theres literally no evidence that Harris lied, in part because Trump hasnt even tried to substantiate his attack with anything other than repetition, and in part because his obsession isnt likely to move the electoral needle.
The broader circumstances, meanwhile, continue to be noteworthy. The Democratic nominee has been involved in public service for decades, working as a prosecutor, a state attorney general, a U.S. senator, and a vice president. If the GOP candidate and his team are eager to scrutinize her record, there should be plenty of accurate things to choose from.
So why is it that Trump has relied so heavily on made-up nonsense? If Harris is as bad as her partisan critics claim, why cant Trump simply tell the truth and shift his focus away from her college-era fast-food experience?
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,958 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(32,180 posts)But I love Trump's weird fixation on her fast food job 40 years ago.
If I were Kamala. I'd challenge Trump to have a McDonald's French fry cook-off. They both get 1/2 hr. instruction on the job requirements. Let's see who really executes the job, in real time. Micky D's would probably love the marketing aspects of this event..
Intractable
(2,115 posts)Omnipresent
(7,458 posts)SergeStorms
(20,599 posts)Hamberder. To Asswart45 they're "hamberders." 😉
I believe in being 100% accurate.
Intractable
(2,115 posts)I was a Technical Writer in one of my former careers. It's hard for me to spell things wrong!
Cheers!
Blues Heron
(8,849 posts)Its just so freaking bizarre
Golden Raisin
(4,755 posts)and borderline Kafkaesque.
Cha
(319,168 posts)Septua
(2,957 posts)Distraction.
Her response in the video was nice. Some people working at McD's are doing the best they can with what they got. It may not be glamorous work but it's respectable and too much discussion could be interpreted as demeaning.
canetoad
(20,769 posts)That more voters relate to Kamala's college employment than relate to TSF's priviledged beginnings.
yonder
(10,293 posts)but it's way past time the french fries do their duty on him.
TBF
(36,699 posts)kwolf68
(8,452 posts)And Trump is NOT setting foot inside a McDonalds to do fries for 30 seconds, let alone 30 minutes.
Why say he's going to do it in a week or two weeks? By then the McDonalds attack will have fallen flat and it will be a new attack, Trump won't ever work at McDonalds. If he was worth a shit, he'd have gone there right after that rally. Just show up, that moment, sight unseen and say im gonna work here.
It's all a facade with this guy, though everyone here knows this.
usedtobedemgurl
(2,052 posts)Permanently working at a McDonald's as a fry cook. I mean, it is just so easy!!!!!!
dlk
(13,254 posts)I cant think of anything.
Intractable
(2,115 posts)When it comes to unhealthy fast food, Trump trumps Harris!
Hassler
(4,925 posts)ReRe
(12,189 posts)and has never worked a real job in his life. This is just plain schoolground bullying. What an old brat!
SomedayKindaLove
(1,183 posts)In 6 weeks you can start working there full time!
Rhiannon12866
(255,761 posts)SomedayKindaLove
(1,183 posts)Rhiannon12866
(255,761 posts)jmowreader
(53,206 posts)I cannot think of one reason I would hire a 77-year-old man with no work ethic. I already have a 22-year-old and a 19-year-old with no work ethic, and Trumps tiny fingers couldnt lift a bundle of newspapers anyway.
underpants
(196,539 posts)It may self rise the basket other than that it feels and the employee lifts the basket.
Automated. Thats it.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,958 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,742 posts)Judging by his huge, flabby ass, the obsession with McDonald's has always been there. Now he's just reminded of the VP when he thinks about a double Quarter Pounder with cheese every five minutes.
rubbersole
(11,225 posts)...she left her long form birth certificate above the fryer.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)Heres the basic Wikipedia definition. Funny I hadnt thought of it before but it does seem relevant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseveration
Blue_Roses
(13,884 posts)he definitely has something going on, cognitively speaking, that makes him obsess about a particular, often demeaning, action.
Just throwing this out there, but I've noticed it's often when it's something demeaning (in his eyes--aka: working at McDonald's) about someone who is intellectually superior to him. Of course he would never admit feeling inferior, (it's all subconscious anyway) to Kamala Harris.But, she gets under his skin BIG-TIME!!
To him, it isn't about the election when he does this, he just wants to knock her down a notch and it pisses him off that he can't find a picture with her Mickey-D hat on, pulling fries out of a grease vat.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,958 posts)underpants
(196,539 posts)The Beacon, which obtained a one-page law-school-era resume of Harris which leaves out her summer-long stint where she did fries, as she put it in an interview with Drew Barrymore, suggested Harris may have fabricated the work experience in an attempt to make herself more relatable to working-class voters.
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/29/media-doubts-harris-mcdonalds-tenure-because-she-left-it-off-a-post-college-resume/
tetedur
(1,418 posts)gibraltar72
(7,629 posts)arlyellowdog
(1,430 posts)I was one. I was also a server in diners while my husband finished law school and started his career. There is no way I can prove it. I never earned enough that we filed taxes. We ate day old food from the supermarket. Maybe these days, workers leave a trace, but there is no way I can prove I worked at the BG Restaurant in Chicago or Lums near UCLA or even Mrs Edwards Coffee Shop in San Francisco. Who would remember me? But I do have proof that Donald was not top of his class at U Penn if he wants that.
Renew Deal
(85,179 posts)And he cant match it.
LetMyPeopleVote
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