By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-20 21:29:07 | Updated at 2024-10-20 23:34:51
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Republican fast-food enthusiast Donald Trump on Sunday donned a black-and-yellow apron over his white shirt and red tie to serve French fries at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania.
The campaign stunt was intended as a jab at opponent Kamala Harris, who says she worked at the fast-food franchise in her youth.
Trump has repeatedly said, without offering evidence, that Harris never worked at a McDonald’s while in college, an experience she has spoken about on the campaign.
On Sunday, an employee of the restaurant patiently showed the 78-year-old Republican how to scoop fries into cartons to be distributed at the drive-through window, as media gathered for the photo-op outside.
Famously a germaphobe, Trump marvelled at the serving tool used to distribute the fried potatoes without picking them up: “It’s clean, it’s really nice, you never touch ‘em.”
“I’ll never forget this experience,” he said, as he finished up the campaign stop meant to appeal to working-class voters. “It requires expertise. I’m going through the French fry stuff.”
“I don’t mind this job,” he continued, at one point asking if customers ever ask for more salt.
