Staff Reports
Former President Donald Trump recently set the snarky media world ablaze by serving up fries and banter at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. This culinary escapade was intended to highlight a claim he made—namely, that Kamala Harris never actually flipped burgers during her so-called summer job at Mickey D’s. However, corporate media outlets and their leftist cheerleaders predictably blasted the event as another staged publicity stunt. Apparently, the mere sight of Trump manning a fry station was enough to send them spiraling into fits of professional jealousy.
NEW: The Harris campaign appears to have been caught scripting two different Doritos handoffs to Kamala Harris at a Pennsylvania, Sheetz.
The first one was her husband “finding” Doritos.
The second handoff was Tim Walz, “finding” another bag of Doritos that he handed to the… pic.twitter.com/zguAh0zxrC
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 19, 2024
The grand debate initiated by this McDonald’s visit erupting on social media had New York Magazine dismissing the event as nothing more than a set of pretend orders served up to supportive fans pretending to be customers. The magazine’s sharp-tongued commentary revealed a glaring oversight: the many staged media moments from Harris and her ilk. For example, there are the dazzlingly staged scenes where Harris supposedly receives Doritos from a very staged handoff and another moment where Democrat Governor Tim Walz and Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, casually forget to pay for their coffee. One has to wonder if those events escaped media scrutiny because they didn’t feature Trump’s unmistakable flair for the dramatic.
In the face of such biting critiques from the left, a pro-Trump social media account gleefully pointed out that the overwhelmingly negative reactions indicated one truth—Trump’s McDonald’s caper was a monumental success. It seems that when an event garners such passionate disdain from the opposition, it might just be hitting the right nerve. Contrast that with the vitriol spewed by left-leaning pundits, like journalist Seth Abramson, who declared Trump’s antics nothing short of “grotesquely embarrassing.” One must ask, is the only thing that’s truly embarrassing here the total inability to comprehend that engaging with voters can involve some light-hearted fun?
Of course, the mainstream media had a field day labeling Trump’s convenient drive-thru appearance as nothing more than a trolling exercise aimed at Harris, who has claimed with a straight face that she once served fries. Multiple outlets went to town on the story, with headlines branded as creatively as a factory-produced McNugget. The New York Times described Trump’s fry-flipping as a smear job, while Business Insider and NBC News concocted their own iterations of the tale, framing it as an attempt to undermine Harris’s dubious claims. Clearly, if Trump can cook at McDonald’s, Harris’s supposed employment can be called into question! Who would have thought that flipping burgers could become the latest battleground in political theater?
Interestingly enough, not everyone in the progressive media sphere was willing to join the all-out bludgeoning of Trump’s fast-food escapades. Cenk Uygur, a prominent figure on the left, broke rank to heighten the discussion about credibility and authenticity in politics. He lauded Trump’s McDonald’s moment as a shining photo opportunity that connected him with the average American. In the age of curated political personas, Trump’s willingness to roll up his sleeves and engage in a little fast-food fun stands in stark contrast to the polished, manufactured images that so many in Washington try so hard to maintain.
In a political landscape dominated by doublespeak and media spin, the McDonald’s apron moment serves as a reminder that while the left attempts to dismiss Trump’s authenticity in favor of their polished rhetoric, the former president continues to connect with hearts—and appetites—across America. If a quick fry-flip can stir up this much reaction, it surely implies that maybe, just maybe, the left should take a long hard look at what the people truly want instead of serving up the same tired suits behind podiums.
