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October 22, 2024

Donald Trump walked into one of his favorite restaurants on Sunday and declared he was “looking for a job,” reports The New York Times.

He certainly is, although not the one that he occupied during the photo op that followed. Trump’s stop at the McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia—which was closed to the public during his visit and where he briefly worked the fryer and handed bags of food to preselected drive-through customers—was a play meant to attack his opponent and give the billionaire candidate some credibility with the working-class voters he needs to win back the White House.

According to the Times, the visit married his two fixations: his well-documented affection for fast food—McDonald’s in particular—and a more recent pattern of accusing Vice President Kamala Harris without evidence of lying about a summer job working at McDonald’s.

Harris’s campaign said she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, in 1983 during the summer after her freshman year at Howard University. A friend of Harris’s recently backed up that account—telling The New York Times that the vice president’s mother, who died in 2009, had told her about the summer job years ago.

McDonald’s representatives have ignored media requests for information.

Yet Mr. Trump, known for wildly speculating about the backgrounds of his political opponents without proof, repeated the claim as he addressed reporters from a drive-through window in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania

Trump, the son of a wealthy real estate developer, told reporters he long dreamed of working at the Golden Arches and he listened attentively as an employee explained his fryer technique.

Research contact: @nytimes