“Cringe,” “Nonsense,” “Out of touch”: Real-life McDonald’s workers unimpressed by Trump’s Fry-Cook cosplay
Weekend—in between discusses the size of the golf legend’s genitals and gives an APB to geese in Springfield, Ohio—Donald Trump pretended to be a fast food clerk at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania that was closed to the public. And his performance didn’t sit well with the people who actually do the job in real life.
On Reddit thread r/McDonaldsEmployeesworkers at the company weigh in stunt, commentamong other things:
- “’Work’ is a weird way of saying, ‘Stand around playing dress up while talking nonsense to the press.’”
- “Apparently the store was closed and it was all a stunt. But if so, it’s even worse. It was like he was toying with us and saying, ‘anyone can do this job, I’m a man of the people.’ So contact was lost.”
- “This is just a political photo that attracts attention. He should have helped the workers instead of paying them double for the day or something because they would have been artificially and inconveniently cramped for their entire shift and even a few days later.”
- “Great, so he was handing out bags of food for five minutes to take pictures…now look at him actually taking on the responsibility of an entire shift every day for several years. This is cosplay and insulting to people who have actually worked at some point in their lives.”
The Trump campaign’s decision to ask the former president to hand out French fries on Sunday appears to be motivated by (1) Trump’s baseless claim—which he repeated over the weekend—that Kamala Harris is lying about having worked at McDonald’s in college and (2) a sad attempt to convince Trump voters to care about the working class. Which he proved during his shift that he didn’t do that at all when he dodged the question of raising the minimum wage.
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In related news, McDonald’s speak Monday, even though they agreed to participate in the Trump event, allowing the former president to cosplay at one of their concessions should not be seen as a tacit endorsement of the GOP candidate. “McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in the race for the next president,” the company said in a memo to employees. “We are not red or blue – we are yellow.”
