Editors at the Washington Examiner ponder Democrats’ reaction to former President Donald Trump’s recent campaign stop at a McDonald’s.
The Democratic Party is freaking out about former President Donald Trump’s visit to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s last Sunday. Its anxiety is understandable because the event highlighted the best of Trump’s strengths and the worst of Vice President Kamala Harris’s weaknesses.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Harris’s running mate, appeared Monday on The View and claimed Trump showed “disrespect” to McDonald’s workers by donning an apron, frying french fries, and serving food at the drive-thru window. If Walz knows any McDonald’s employees who feel that way, he should let everyone know who they are. Otherwise, people might unkindly think he is making it up in the hopes that voters will accept his BS as gospel. Actual McDonald’s employees, in many videos of the event, were clearly having a great time interacting with the former president.
Walz’s attempted spin to control the damage inflicted on the Harris-Walz campaign by Trump’s stint under the Golden Arches rings wholly untrue. How does it diss anyone to go and try out their routine for a while? Rather, doesn’t it show respect for them and let them know they are not too low to be on the candidate’s mind? It is the critics scorning Trump’s stunt who denigrated the lowly workers.
Trump was relaxed, cheerful, and natural working at the McDonald’s, which really separated him from Harris. While on the campaign trail, he has visibly enjoyed interacting with voters and working the crowds. Democrats complained that the McDonald’s event was staged and the restaurant was closed to real customers. However, after two assassination attempts against Trump, it is neither surprising nor wrong that the Secret Service should want control over the situation. It would indeed have been culpably derelict if they had not.
Even as a staged event, however, the videos show Trump happily working alongside McDonald’s employees to serve food to his many fans waiting in line outside the drive-thru window. The event is destined to go down as an iconic campaign moment, such as former President Bill Clinton’s stop at a McDonald’s in 1992.