Donald Trump staged himself on Sunday October 20 in a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Pennsylvania, playing the role of an employee at the fryer, an operation aimed, according to him, at denouncing a lie from Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate protected his white shirt and tie by putting on an apron and then was explained how fries are prepared. He then took on this task, draining the frying basket, generously salting the fries and bagging them.
The septuagenarian, known for liking hamburgers and fast food, then went to the counter serving drivers. “It’s Trump who’s in for a treat,” he told a family of customers at the restaurant located in Feasterville, near Philadelphia. “I have now worked 15 minutes more than Kamala, she has never worked here,” he asserted after a quarter of an hour.
Trump accuses Harris of lying
Kamala Harris claims to have had a summer job at McDonald’s in 1983 when she was a student. She would have alternated between the cash register, the fryer and the ice cream machine at a restaurant in Alameda, near Oakland, California. Donald Trump claims that this is a lie, out of pure electoral opportunism. The odd job at a fast food restaurant is indeed a reality that millions of Americans can identify with. The Republican’s campaign team provided no proof of the lie theory. And that of the Democrat showed no material evidence supporting this summer job at McDonald’s.
A fortnight before the election, and while advance voting has started in many constituencies, the two candidates are focusing on key states, which oscillate between the two parties, and are essential to victory. Donald Trump goes on to give long speeches where he criticizes and insults, pell-mell, his rival, the current government, the press and migrants. Kamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday this Sunday in two black churches in Georgia, before also traveling to Pennsylvania. The vice-president and the billionaire are working hard in an increasingly tense race: on Sunday, Kamala Harris accused her opponent of “degrading” the office of president of the United States, after the former head of The State described her the day before as a “shit vice president” during a campaign rally.