The Republican candidate for the White House, the former president donald trumpcampaigned this Sunday in a local McDonald’s in the key state of Pennsylvania, where he accused his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harrisif invented that when he was young he worked for this fast food chain.
The Republican made a stop at a franchise location on the outskirts of Philadelphia, where put on an apron and spent a few minutes cooking French fries alongside employees and handing them out through the drive-thru window.
“I love McDonald’s. I love jobs. And I think it’s inappropriate when someone says everywhere that they worked at a McDonald’s (…) but they never worked at a McDonald’s,” said the Republican about his Democratic rival.
According to the Harris campaign, the vice president He worked during the summer of 1983 at a McDonald’s in the city of Alameda (California)working the cash register and cooking French fries, to pay for his studies at Howard University in Washington.
Harris, who has not offered more details on the matter, usually explains that story to show closeness to the working classes and distance himself from Trump, a real estate magnate who inherited his father’s empire.
The Republican, a big consumer of fast food who in 2019 handed out McDonald’s hamburgers at a White House event, has accused Harris several times of having made up that part of his resume.
Ian Sams, Harris’ spokesman, said this Sunday that Trump is lying out of desperation: “He can’t understand what it’s like to have a summer job because they gave him millions on a silver platter and then he squandered them,” he said.
Harris He does not mention his experience at McDonald’s in his memoirs. and apparently the first time he spoke about it in public was in his first presidential campaign in 2019, when he joined striking workers at that company in Las Vegas.
McDonald’s has avoided responding to several requests for information from US media asking confirm if Harris worked at the restaurant 40 years ago.
Trump has a long history of spreading falsehoods about the past of his political rivals and was a leading proponent of the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama (2009-2017) was born in Kenya and, therefore, the US Constitution prevented him from being president.
