Trump Serves Up McDonald’s Drive-Thru Orders and Claims Harris ‘Lied’ About Working There in Photo-Op

WHITFIELD: “Danny, the Keystone State has been a key focus of the former president in the last, you know, days of the race. What is he saying to voters there today?”
FREEMAN: “Yeah, Keystone State certainly getting a lot of attention from both campaigns, but certainly from the Trump campaign this weekend, especially right now, where former President Trump is actually in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a crucial purple area of the commonwealth, at a McDonald’s. He’s there right now, and we have a little bit of footage to show you of the former president actually going up to a fryer and frying up some fries. Take a look.”

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: “Twirl it slowly or it will burn.”
Trump: “Okay. Right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: “Now, we’ve [inaudible] the timer so when the timer’s up. Again, take the timer and take it out real slowly, give it a little shake or they’ll be stuck together. Then lower it back into the oil.”
Trump: “Okay.”
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: “Probably this will fry [inaudible]. There we go. Lift it out of the oil and then you can serve it. [inaudible] take it slowly back into the oil. And we got another one going on. So, set your timer right here [inaudible]. There you go. And then our last one’s going to go. And then you can do more fries.”
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FREEMAN: “You can see right there perhaps a bit of unconventional retail politics going on in Pennsylvania right now. Former President Donald Trump wearing an apron, working that fry machine. Now, as I understand it, you see images on your screen of him actually working the drive-thru. We understand that Secret Service screened a number of the drivers beforehand that would be coming in for the drive-through to be served by former President Donald Trump. And the reason that the former president is at the stop is because he’s trying to challenge that Vice President Kamala Harris, who has said multiple times that she is a younger person, as a college student, worked at McDonald’s, former President Trump, without evidence, has said that that is not true. The Harris campaign not directly responding to this stop today, but saying that Harris worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California in 1983 during the summer when she was still a student at Howard University. So, again, just a bit of stunning video right there to kick off the day. But that’s not the only visit that former President Donald Trump has had in Pennsylvania this whole weekend. Yesterday, he was in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. That’s on the western part of the state. It was at times a rambling speech. It was also at times a vulgar speech. Take a listen to how he decided to define Vice President Harris’ experience in the Biden Administration.”

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Trump: “You have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore, we can’t stand you. You’re a [bleep] vice president. The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired! Get the hell out! You’re fired! Get out of here!”
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FREEMAN: “Now, Fred, make no mistake, The former president did talk about inflation, immigration, bringing jobs back to America. But it was truly a scattered speech, as we’ve come to expect from the former president over the past few weeks and final stops of this campaign. And the challenge is, for that campaign, is that a senior adviser tells CNN that this trip to Pennsylvania really is the beginning of that closing argument for former President Trump. So well see if he is able to stay perhaps a little bit more on message when he joins us here in Lancaster later tonight. In between the McDonald’s event and this event in Lancaster, he is also expected to stop at a black barbershop in Philadelphia.”