OAN Staff Avril Elfie
12:10pm – Sunday, October 20, 2024
Former President Donald Trump visited a McDonald's in Pennsylvania to dispute claims by Vice President Kamala Harris that she worked there while in college.
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On Sunday, 45th The president worked in the french fry section at McDonald's in Feasterville Trevose, handing out meals to people in the drive-thru as a “tribute to Trump.”
A group of people lined up on Street Road in Lower Southampton Township to order food for the former president.
“I'll take whatever he gives me,” one man said. new york post.
His visit to the chain restaurant was to reiterate his suspicions that Harris actually worked there in the 1980s.
Trump, 78, teased on “Fox & Friends” last week that “I'm going to go because she lied,” and said he's “willing to do whatever it takes” when working in the kitchen.
Harris, 60, who worked at a fast-food restaurant during college, has repeatedly said she used the story to emphasize her middle-class roots and contrast herself with her billionaire opponents.
Her campaign states that during the summer between her freshman and sophomore years at Howard University in 1983, she worked at a McDonald's on Central Avenue in Alameda, California, working at the register, at the frying station, and at the ice cream machine. There is.
“One of the reasons I say I worked at McDonald's is because there are people working at McDonald's in our country who are trying to support their families,” Harris said. MSNBCStephanie Ruhl last month. “I worked there as a student.”
“I think part of the difference between me and my opponents includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and our responsibility to meet those needs,” she said. Ta.
President Trump claimed that Harris' 1987 resume makes no mention of her allegedly working at McDonald's, and that there is a general lack of evidence that she ever worked there.
Her campaign pushed back, accusing her of making baseless claims.
McDonald's Owner Derek Giacomantonio said, “It is a core value of my organization that we proudly open our doors to all who visit our Feasterville community.” Ta.
He went on to say that he accepted President Trump's request to “look at the transformative work experience that one in eight Americans has had: working at McDonald's.”
“Right now, I'm going to get a job at McDonald's,” Trump told reporters as he got off the plane, before adding, “I really wanted to do this for the rest of my life.”
On Sunday evening, President Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and attend a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets at Acresure Stadium.
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