Following former president Donald Trump’s brief employment as a McDonald’s drive-thru attendant, media outlets rushed to question the authenticity of Trump’s new part-time gig.
Newsweek tapped sources on social media to confirm whether Trump had indeed taken on a second job. There they uncovered an inconvenient truth for the Trump campaign and reported, “rumors have been circulating on social media that Trump’s visit to McDonald’s was ‘staged.’”
A McDonald burn. Out of the frying basket and into the fryer.
Sensing something smelled Filet-O-Fishy, NBC News went on a little fact-finding mission of its own:
“The franchise in Feasterville was closed for normal business during Sunday’s photo op. The customers who went through the drive thru were pre-selected by the franchise and the local Trump campaign team, according to a person familiar with the event. The cars were also screened and searched, and the people in them were wanded down, according to the source.”
Apparently, the whole episode was just a ruse and the former president was not trying to pick up a little extra campaign cash.
As the debate continued to rage, MSNBC’s Steve Benen dropped some nuance, like a sizzling patty on a sesame seed bun:
“Those characterizing this as “work,” however, have been overly generous: There’s an important difference between work and theatrics, and this was definitely the latter.”
As proof that the Harris campaign knows a little something about work, they released a photo of Tim Walz with fellow Dem colleague Amy Klobuchar laboring on a highway project back in 2022.
According to media reports, the two worked shovels ten hours a day for nearly eight months in an effort to save taxpayers money.
If there is something 