Trump at McDonalds: The Art of the Troll
How Donald Trump won the news cycle, and may well win the election.
THIS…
is how you know you’re winning. If everyone from the media to political pundits are talking about it, whether negatively or positively, you have effectively owned the moment. Yes, we know it was staged. So were Kamala Harris’ restaurant and store visits. This is what politicians do. Not to mention, anyone who has had two assassination attempts against him is not going to expose himself to random harm. That’s just common sense.
But the hallmark of this “Trump works at McDonalds” instance is the effectiveness of the troll. In her acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention, VP Kamala Harris claimed that she worked at McDonalds in her youth. I have been watching and covering this woman since her days as a San Francisco district attorney, and that was the first I had heard of it. If anyone had asked simple follow-up questions on what she did, which McDonalds’ did she work, was it in high school (Canada) or college (United States), we’d know for certain. She would have had to have given those details. The problem is, she can’t, because every time she is asked about it, she describes it in generalities, like someone who observes what McDonalds’ workers do, as opposed to someone who actually did the work. All Harris said to the ridiculous Mess-NBC host Stephanie Ruhle in the highly curated, one-on-one interview with Harris is that “I did the fries.” My husband worked briefly at McDonalds, and he gave me more detail about what he did than Harris has supplied or ever will. She never worked at McDonalds, full stop.
Like her fabulist running mate, it’s one of her many fictions. Harris has not bothered to mention it in two books and a thirty-plus year career in politics in high-profile positions such as California Attorney General and or California Senator. But somewhere between her first presidential run and becoming VP, she’s incorporated it into her resume. It’s all part of the ploy to make herself appear like “one of us.”
That’s not possible, even if she had. She’s never been one of us, and the more she tries the more cringe she becomes.
Had Harris initially capitalized on this scrutiny by actually going to McDonalds, staging some meetings with everyday Americans and the hard workers that she claims to champion, she could have owned the moment and possibly silenced the skeptics. Instead, she let Trump one-up her by not only working at McDonalds, but doing it on her birthday! Harris made an appearance at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in an Atlanta suburb, but nobody paid attention. What Americans, especially Christians, remember is the Thursday debacle at a Harris-Walz rally in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. As Harris waxed eloquent about baby killing, two men shouted, “Jesus is Lord!” Harris gleefully and arrogantly told them “I think you’re at the wrong rally,” and then promptly had them kicked out. Harris made her Sunday church appearance to try and rally the faithful to the polls and remove the stench of her rally utterance.
But even that was washed aside by Trump at that Pennsylvania McDonalds. Whatever the outcome of November 5, these iconic moments compliments of Donald J. Trump will become a part of our collective cultural memories.
WATCH:
Best line: “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala!” Epic.
How you really know you’re in full strut mode are the memes. Rule of thumb: first comes the news cycle, then come the memes. Like the cat and dog memes sparked after the Trump-Harris debate, these McDonalds’ memes are truly inspired. But we have an inspired person who instigated them, so would you expect otherwise?
This one is probably my all time favorite… so far.
You know whose really winning? McDonalds. They have been the evil corporate entity for quite some time, despite the fact that they have done, and continue to do, more for minorities in terms of opportunity and job advancement than the majority of these DEI and woke shops. While not his original intent, Trump has not only elevated the McDonalds’ brand, but elevated the workers who represent the brand. The Left and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) is melting down about it, targeting the franchiser who hosted this Trump event, and insulting the hard-working employees of McDonalds (or any service industry, frankly) in order to throw shade and diminish what Trump has accomplished.
Sorry folks, this horse is out of the barn, off the reservation, and is running full throttle. Not that it needed it, but the Trump train just got juiced. The Harris-Walz campaign, on the other hand, is off the rails like all those trains under Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s watch. This Monday morning, someone’s head was served up on a platter at their campaign headquarters—Bet.