Trump manned a fry station at the fast-food chain as Harris spoke about being a good Samaritan on her 60th birthday.
Former President Donald Trump on Oct. 20 served food at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, while Vice President Kamala Harris visited two churches in Georgia, as both candidates vie to sway undecideds in battleground states in the final stretch before the Nov. 5 election.
The Republican presidential candidate manned the fry station at the fast food establishment in Feasterville-Trevose before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions from reporters through the drive-thru window.
After an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, the former president took his turn and even helped fill some takeout bags.
“It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast,” Trump said with a grin. “I do appreciate it a little more. You say, ‘Give me french fries.’ I’ll never forget this experience.”
The campaign stop was part of a swing in the Keystone State. He will hold a town hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, later on Oct. 20 before attending the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets.
Harris has talked about working at McDonald’s while growing up.
“Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family—I worked there as a student, I was a kid—who work there trying to raise families and pay rent on that,” she told MSNBC last month.
“I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility, then, is to meet those needs.”
Trump is no stranger to McDonald’s.
During the 2018–2019 government shutdown, when cooks at the White House were furloughed, the 45th president ordered hundreds of burgers, fries, and items from McDonald’s, as well as Burger King, Wendy’s, and Dominoes, to honor the Clemson Tigers, who won the national college football championship that year. He presented a similar feast to the 2019 women’s college basketball champions, the Baylor Lady Bears.
