Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York criticized former President Trump's recent visit to a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, suggesting the photo shoot was simply an attempt to “connect” with voters.
“We're having Donald Trump dress up as a McDonald's because we think that's what people do,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd at an event with the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Monday. told.
“They're not trying to empathize with us. They're making fun of us,” she added. “Donald Trump thinks people who work at McDonald's are a joke.”
Her remarks came after President Trump visited a fast-food chain in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, wearing an apron and working at the drive-thru and french fry station.
The New York Democratic Party also gave $1 million per day to voters who signed its political action committee's petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects free speech, and the Second Amendment, which guarantees that right. Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and President Trump ally, also kicked out for promising to give away. “Keep and carry weapons.”
“I see Elon Musk coming here. He's running a little contest where he's promising people $1 million in some kind of lottery prize if they sign up for his list,” she said. Said. We, and many of us who struggle to make a living, dance for him. ”
Ocasio-Cortez added that Musk “thinks it's cute to dangle money in front of working people.”
She continued her appeal to working-class voters, claiming that Trump and Musk “have no idea what our lives are like.”
“They think this insensitivity is a way to connect,” she said at a UAW event. “That's not a way to connect, because you and I both know that when the cameras are on and we turn around and get into the car, they're laughing at us and thinking we're suckers. Because there is.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democratic vice presidential candidate, also accused the former president of disrespecting McDonald's workers during the campaign stoppage, an attack seen primarily as an attack on Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris said he worked at the store when he was in college.
The Trump campaign sought to capitalize on the visit by selling T-shirts with pictures of the former president working at a drive-thru.
In response to the incident, McDonald's emphasized its political neutrality.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign and Tesla for comment on behalf of Elon Musk.
