Trump propels McDonald's into political arena in final days of campaign

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Donald Trump is dragging one of America's most iconic companies, McDonalds, into the political arena in the final days of his third bid for the White House.

The former president is expected to stop at one of Pennsylvania's franchised fast food chains during his Sunday visit to the Keystone State. There, he plans to work as a fry attendant, CNN reported last week.

It's the same job that Vice President Kamala Harris said she had as a young woman, a biographical detail revealed during her first presidential campaign. It has since become a centerpiece of the middle-class origin story that she made key to her pitch to voters as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.

Trump, whose deep affection for the Golden Arches and its offerings is well documented, has meanwhile become obsessed with employing Harris there. In interviews and during the election campaign, he regularly accuses Harris without proof of having invented the facts. His visit to the restaurant is his latest attempt to sow doubt about the Democrats' professional history.

I'm going to McDonalds to work on fries, Trump told supporters Saturday at a rally in the Pittsburgh area. I think I'm doing it tomorrow, and I think it's some place in Pennsylvania, and I'm going to stand in front of this fry.

Harris has largely ignored Trump, as well as calls from his supporters and inquiries from conservative media outlets to provide proof of her time there. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment on Trump's accusation and his upcoming visit to McDonalds.

A campaign official told CNN that Harris worked at a McDonald's in Alameda, California, during the summer of 1983, while she was still a student at Howard University in Washington. She worked the cash register and operated the French fry and ice cream machines, according to the manager.

On Drew Barrymore's talk show earlier this year, Harris told the actor: I ate fries. And then I checked out. And as a 2019 presidential candidate, Harris mentioned her work at the fast food chain as she joined striking McDonald's workers on the picket line.

His time there was brought up repeatedly on stage at this summer's Democratic National Convention, as allies contrasted his upbringing with Trump's upper-class roots. Former President Bill Clinton joked that Harris would break my record for president who spent the most time at McDonalds. Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed one candidate worked at McDonalds, while the other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Can you just imagine Donald Trump working at a McDonald's? said Harris' running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He couldn't operate the damn McFlurry machine if it cost him anything.

Over the years, Trump has repeatedly questioned his rivals' biographies, often without merit. He was one of the loudest voices in the debunked birther movement that falsely questioned Barack Obama's citizenship and eligibility for the White House, ultimately leading the Hawaiian-born president to release his detailed birth certificate . During the 2016 Republican primary, Trump advanced an unfounded conspiracy theory that Senator Ted Cruz's father aided in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. During this election cycle, Trump falsely suggested that his Republican primary opponent, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, was not a natural-born American citizen and falsely claimed that Harris had only adopted only recently his black heritage.

Yet while making these accusations, Trump has littered his personal history with exaggerations and fabrications. He coined the phrase truthful hyperbole in his best-selling autobiography The Art of the Deal, an oxymoronic term that nevertheless illustrates his relationship to the facts about him.

It's an innocent form of exaggeration, he writes, and a very effective form of promotion.

In a 2007 deposition, lawyers caught Trump lying at least 30 times in two days, mostly about mundane facts about his businesses, such as the size of his staff, payment of his speaking fees and the cost of his golf membership. he stood on the rubble of Ground Zero after the September 11 terrorist attacks and that he paid his workers to clean up the debris, neither of which is confirmed by public records.

And there are numerous accounts of Trump calling reporters under the pseudonym John Barron, an alleged executive at his company who allegedly tricked a Forbes reporter into inflating Trump's fortune on the richest list of the magazine.

It's not entirely clear why Trump hung on to the Harris McDonalds job or why a visit there was justified during one of his few remaining weekends before Election Day. But in recent interviews, Trump suggested that one small detail about his rival's past shouldn't be overlooked.

We'd say that's not a big lie. This is a huge lie, Trump said, because McDonalds was part of his history.

Trump also visited a McDonald's early in his presidential campaign, this one in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed there, sparking an environmental and public health crisis. There, he joked to a lady working at the cash register, I know this menu better than you. I probably know that better than anyone here.

The former president has long stated his affinity for fast food. During a 2016 CNN town hall, Trump, a self-described very clean person, attributed his preference for their offerings to quality control, saying, “It's better to go there than to a place where you don't have no idea where the food comes from.

I think the food is good. “I think all these places, Burger King, McDonalds, I can live with,” he added. The other night I had Kentucky Fried Chicken. It's not the worst thing in the world.

Trump brought that affection to the White House, where he once served the Clemson national football team an assortment of burgers and pizza. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, joked in his autobiography that he knew Trump had turned a corner in his battle against the coronavirus when he asked for his favorite McDonald's order.

McDonalds Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake, Kushner said.

During an appearance last week on Fox News, Donald Trump Jr. lamented that the network, in its interview with Harris, did not ask her which McDonalds she worked at. He also said his father's familiarity with the network's offerings would surpass that of Democratic candidates.

I think my dad knows the McDonald's menu way better than Kamala Harris, Trump Jr. said.

CNN's Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan and Ebony Davis contributed to this story.

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