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Trump serves fries at McDonald's; says Harris lied about working there in college

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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MARC LEVY

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Next up, he should be cleaning toilets as that is what will be his assignment at Rikers.

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I bet he got really excited at the chance to see how the Big Macs were made.

25 ( +33 / -8 )

Such a petty little baby.

If Harris attempted to do all the things 45 has lied about she’d need several lifetimes.

28 ( +37 / -9 )

Like his brain. Fried.

31 ( +39 / -8 )

Heading for a win on election day unless Harris ups her game

-28 ( +12 / -40 )

You gotta wear a hat or hairnet in a XR food kitchen, what an idiot.

27 ( +33 / -6 )

Trump has long spread groundless claims about his opponents based on their personal history, particularly women and racial minorities.

Trump's cosplay as a wage slave trump's the actual experience of people like Harris, or AOC as a bartender, which MAGA constantly mock.

This is a meme engineered campaign pushed by huge corporate monies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/magazine/trump-donors-silicon-valley.html

14 ( +22 / -8 )

a Republican strategist in Arizona

"Republican strategist" is a euphemism for a 'billionaire's highly paid fixer' who comes up with dirty tricks, and/or creates strategies like Project 2025, or strategies for overthrowing election results, each a blueprint for a despot-wannabe like Trump to follow. Trump lacks the mental abilities to devise strategies by himself so tells his fixers/strategists what he wants (an example: I need to stay in office) and gets his armies of fixers to find ways to do so. Thugs need fixers, Trump, Musk and their billionaire cohorts around the globe want to fill the US government with them. They want to dismantle the US and its Constitution to have even greater control than they've long had.

15 ( +20 / -5 )

Macdonald’s has a new clown.

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Next up, he should be cleaning toilets as that is what will be his assignment at Rikers.

The chances of that happening would equivalent to Biden jumping back into the race

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Cosplayer.

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It is so amazing how people who support Trump just blindly believe whatever he says. If Harris was to produce a picture of her working at McDonalds, his supporters would say it was fake or Ai! Or they would come up with some other excuse. Just like Obama with his birth certificate, once Trump says something his cult like believers swallow it hook line and sinker!

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"Republican strategist" is a euphemism for a 'billionaire's highly paid fixer'

So then that applies to Democrat strategists as well then since they make serious bank. Good gig.

who comes up with dirty tricks, and/or creates strategies like Project 2025, or strategies for overthrowing election results, each a blueprint for a despot-wannabe like Trump to follow.

Both sides have their think tanks. The Dems have the 1619 project, want to eliminate private insurance, get rid of fossil fuels (talk about nutty) and then hiring hundreds of lawyers to possible challenge the results of this election on the slimmest of margins.

Trump lacks the mental abilities to devise strategies by himself so tells his fixers/strategists what he wants (an example: I need to stay in office)

Wrong! You can’t tell Trump anything let alone control the guy, this is one main reason why the establishment hates him, you cannot control him, so the guy is most definitely focused and pushing his strategic ideas to the forefront.

and gets his armies of fixers to find ways to do so. Thugs need fixers,

Bragg, James, Fani, Smith, Schiff….

Trump, Musk and their billionaire cohorts around the globe want to fill the US government with them.

Wrong party, none of them are supporting Trump, he wants to fill it with American first patriots

They want to dismantle the US and its Constitution to have even greater control than they've long had.

No voter ID, change the days of the election count, allow illegals to vote, giving rights to squatters, going after Trump for the flimsiest of Trumped up charges, trying to keep him off the campaign trail, trying to deny half the nation their constitutional rights when it comes to the candidate they chose. Yeah, the left can’t say anything on that one.

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that Trump has claimed — without offering evidence — never happened.

Kamala has to prove she did,- as it was her, without evidence, claim.

-24 ( +12 / -36 )

without offering evidence

The above applies to just about anything Trump or his handlers say, but his bass believe everything they say. PT Barnum knew his fellow Americans, but might have underestimated saying a sucker is born every minute, today it seems to be every second, particularly in red states. If all you've got is 'that would be', that would just reinforcing my claim

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He's not even qualified to do that.

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. If Harris was to produce a picture of her working at McDonalds

produce it. Then no need to speculate, right?

when you put something on a resume does the hiring manager have to accept you worked there with no proof?

does he have to prove you DiDNT with there?

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So much salt here! Too much for my fries!

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If Harris had done the same thing, you lot would be praising her for "getting in touch with the ordinary people."

But with Trump firming up as the more likely winner, the panic is setting in among the Democrat camp.

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it’s a good job for him.

he’s just training for a job in the kitchen penitentiary for when he loses the election, the classified documents case returns on appeal and he's sentenced to 8-10 years.

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If Harris had done the same thing

She did. That’s the point.

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The above applies to just about anything Trump or his handlers say, but his bass believe everything they say.

From the People that claimed the Russia, Russia, Russia collusion delusion was real? Give me a break….

PT Barnum knew his fellow Americans, but might have underestimated saying a sucker is born every minute,

Like when Pelosi talked about the signing of the Affordable Care Act, just sign it, no need to read it, talk about being suckered in.

today it seems to be every second, particularly in red states. If all you've got is 'that would be', that would just reinforcing my claim

No

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Bob FosseToday  08:02 am JST

If Harris had done the same thing

She did. That’s the point.

No proof at all.

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he’s one short of a happy meal.

the mcdonald’s was closed and there was nothing impromptu about it.

staged for donald mcdonald.

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She did. That’s the point.

She didn’t. There’s no record of her working at McDonald’s.She did. That’s the point.

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She didn’t. There’s no record of her working at McDonald’s.

No. Nope. No.

You don’t know that. Nobody from McDonalds has made any statement about it. None. You’ve been lied to by 45 and Facebook posts.

Businesses in California are not required to keep employee records for more than 4 years. Her claim is 40 years ago.

It really doesn’t matter but 45 making such a big deal about it is pathetic.

14 ( +22 / -8 )

Maybe "she never worked at McDonalds" will be this election's "He was born in Kenya".

(Enter the MAGA types: "The birth certificate that Obama provided was fake! And you can't prove that it wasn't!")

12 ( +19 / -7 )

Crowds were heard screaming and pointing....

"Look, it's the Hamburgler!...

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Bob FosseToday  08:19 am JST

She didn’t. There’s no record of her working at McDonald’s.

No. Nope. No. 

You don’t know that. Nobody from McDonalds has made any statement about it. None. You’ve been lied to by 45 and Facebook posts.

Businesses in California are not required to keep employee records for more than 4 years. Her claim is 40 years ago. 

It really doesn’t matter but 45 making such a big deal about it is pathetic.

Still, she should be able to come up with a photo of herself in uniform, or some such proof.

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In an interview last month on MSNBC, the vice president pushed back on Trump’s claims, saying she did work at the fast-food chain four decades ago when she was in college.

“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,” she said. “I worked there as a student.”

AOC is a young millennial so her youthful exploits have a lot of photographic documentation.

https://boldlatina.com/aoc-a-former-bartender-advocates-for-a-national-living-wage/

But no doubt, if she was running against MAGA/Trump they would claim all her pictures of her working a wage slave job were AI fake news and she was just some lib Dem Marxist NYC elite.

Harris has a more difficult time fighting back against MAGA .

The focus should be not whether Harris worked at McDs but whether Trump pays taxes.

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Detective Trump is on the job, incognito working as a server at McDonalds...

When asked why he was "undercover", he replied; "I'm going to prove that if Kamala is elected, cows will be outlawed and these hamburgers will go away"....then McDonalds will hire Haitians and the "BigMac" will become the "BigFido"....

Trump then started dancing and twerking to the McDonald's background muzak...

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These Dysfunctional campaigns submerged chocking from a stream of abuse, a torrent of pungent personal political putrid bile, every sentence, the answer for any question, interviews, rallies, the economy, immigration, law and order you name it.

That sums up US election 2024 satisfied?

The US 2024 election has shrouded an ever more insane, incendiary middle eastern horror unfolding into a all out conflict.

Harris Israel/Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah policy is to promise security to Israel, at the same time statehood to the Palestinians.

Calling for a ceasefire deal......

-12 ( +1 / -13 )

Still, she should be able to come up with a photo of herself in uniform, or some such proof.

Why?

It’s insane that maga are so obsessed with this that 45 had to put on an apron and make some fries.

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Rarely comment on Trump because there's little value in it.

But this time it's worth a chuckle - move over Ronald for Donald McDonald - clown face and all.

Strategists must have seen this as a Big Appeal piece for the adorers - see, he's just like us.

And no doubt it will succeed for many, who will be impressed by it all.

Next they'll have him throwing out food packages to the poor.

Great marketing.

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I would not touch anything served but this man

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they would claim all her pictures of her working a wage slave job 

no, she can prove she was a bartender. We have seen pictures. And she had coworkers and customers.

Kamala? No pics or coworkers. Was this Canadian McDonalds?

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She didn’t. There’s no record of her working at McDonald’s.

No. Nope. No.

You don’t know that. Nobody from McDonalds has made any statement about it. None. You’ve been lied to by 45 and Facebook posts.

Businesses in California are not required to keep employee records for more than 4 years. Her claim is 40 years ago.

It really doesn’t matter but 45 making such a big deal about it is pathetic.

Indeed. It's an open admission that his lies about immigration, crime, the economy have all failed....and it's "Hail Mary" desperation time...

People are already voting - and this clown is in a McDonalds scraping fries into a bag...

It's just anther example that he knows he's spiraling down...and his own campaign managers have given up...

I'm betting he'll keep his string of insulting his audience going and call all the McDonalds employees "Losers" and those customers he's serving "basement dwellers"...

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Still, she should be able to come up with a photo of herself in uniform, or some such proof.

I know that I've still got negatives of myself when I worked in a bakery/restaurant about 35 years ago. I mean, don't we all save photos of ourselves doing our part time jobs because we might be running for president one day?

Anyway, she could produce one, and MAGA would instantly disregard it, accuse it of being done in Midjourney, etc. Harris could find the manager of the McDonalds at that time and have them swear under oath that she worked there. It wouldn't matter. MAGA is completely brainwashed and will only believe what they see in a favourable light.

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A McDonalds spokesperson was asked today what was the reason for allowing Donald Trump to "apprentice" for a job as a fry cook today....

He replied, "It's part of our community involvement efforts to provide jobs to convicted felons and others trying to reform their past criminal lives"....

Very compassionate...

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And some further comments re - "where's the evidence Harris worked one summer at McDonalds?"

Like what?

I'm a similar age to her + a couple of years and I could never prove my holiday time jobs while at University.

Worked in a Rubber mill, builders labourer, night shift in a bread factory, loading / unloading trucks in a lumber warehouse... and there are no pics and I'm sure no evidence remains that I ever did such.

What a miniscule detail to focus on by the Trump campaign.

And to prove what?

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Do you seriously suggest "number 47", will rest upon either candidate past/present deftness shadowing a MacDonalds service crew team member?

Terrifying....

-11 ( +0 / -11 )

McDonaldgate! The golden arch nemesis must be stopped at all cost! ;p

Extra pickles please.

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Ronald McDonald was interviewed today....

"I'm suing! My contract stipulates than I'm the only "Clown" allowed to be employed by McDonalds. And it specifically says that only I can wear orange make-up, weird clothes, and goofy hair".

"I won't go down easy to this clear attempt by this "Fake Imposter" to steal my job!"....

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I would not touch anything served but this man

Well I’m not so picky so get back to work and go make me a big Mac and a large fries.

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No. Nope. No. 

Yes, yes, yes!

You don’t know that. Nobody from McDonalds has made any statement about it.

McDonald’s did and said that they have no record of her working there.

None. You’ve been lied to by 45 and Facebook posts.

So you’re saying McDonald’s is lying about their own employee history?

Businesses in California are not required to keep employee records for more than 4 years. Her claim is 40 years ago. 

As someone who is from California, and whose parents own businesses, this is not entirely true, not to mention you can’t access information on anyone’s work history, we did background checks all the time and there is no limit to as far back as an employer can go because this is about safeguarding my company and upholding employee safety and integrity standards.

It really doesn’t matter

It does when she makes that statement and then we factcheck it and it’s a lie, it absolutely makes a difference and shows what kind of integrity you have or whether you’re honest or not.

but 45 making such a big deal about it is pathetic.

Yeah, now you don’t, but when it came to Trump’s businesses every single thing he said and did, past, and present was scrutinized to the smallest of details. Please don’t be a hypocrite.

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Readers, please do not get fixated on this one story. Once you have made your point, please move on to other stories. Repetitive posts will be removed.

He looks exhausted.

Harris didn’t work at McDonald’s? Weak by his standards.

During his first run for president, Trump repeated a tabloid’s claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s father, who was born in Cuba, had links to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

This is Trump in his prime.

This is what MAGA should be about.

11 ( +14 / -3 )

. . . while serving in the USM, my CO & I gave McD one day of work . . . .

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Nice work Mr President.

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they would claim all her pictures of her working a wage slave job 

no, she can prove she was a bartender. We have seen pictures. And she had coworkers and customers.

Because it was relatively recently when people started documenting everything and anything with their phones.

Kamala? No pics or coworkers. Was this Canadian McDonalds?

Why would she spend the time and effort to track down old co-workers from a brief stint at a fast food joint? Why is it that so important? Just to satisfy a few obsessed people?

This obsession with Harris proving she worked at McD’s part time for six months 40 years ago is bunny-boiler level insane. Two weeks out from the election, it’s not important at all.

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Well, I don't blame donald. Dear Leader just wanted to practice flipping burgers. We all know that will be his next "job" in the Prison Canteen.

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Yeah, now you don’t, but when it came to Trump’s businesses every single thing he said and did, past, and present was scrutinized to the smallest of details. Please don’t be a hypocrite.

Well said sir, except that it wasn’t!!!

5 ( +12 / -7 )

McDonald’s did and said that they have no record of her working there.

Well said sir, except that they didn’t!!!

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Who besides Donald Trump gives a rat's rear end whether Harris lied about having worked at MacDonald's ages ago? Even if that were a lie, how does that compare with Trump calling Jan 6th a "peaceful transfer of power" full of "love"? How does that compare with still 4 years later claiming to have won the 2020 election? Deranged and disconnected from reality. Not fit for the job. Or any job for that matter.

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It won't make any difference if she decides to prove it. They found Obama's birth certificate, and yet still many people think that Obama was born outside the US

It’s a fair point. Truth means nothing to these people.

Going back to what I said about what MAGA should be about, it’s a crackpot world of lies. His hardcore followers are the people claiming to be multi-millionaires flying private, having multiple higher science degrees, spamming social media with multiple handles like disturbed and unpopular teenagers etc.

These are true MAGA. As deranged as he is.

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Not sure if either candidate deserves bragging rights on this topic. Nicholas Kristof, writing about terrorism in the NY Times, quipped "If you want to kill as many Americans as possible, open a McDonald's franchise."

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Even if that were a lie, how does that compare with Trump calling Jan 6th a "peaceful transfer of power" full of "love"? How does that compare with still 4 years later claiming to have won the 2020 election? Deranged and disconnected from reality. 

Trump is graded differently.

The incoherence, pathological dishonesty, ignorance, pettiness and childishness are just…Trump. A fraction of this would sink any other candidate.

This is his superpower and why he could win.

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well, i think the true irony is trump and his supporters accusing someone else of lying.

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I amazed there were any left to “sell” to the Secret Service approve customers after he finished stuffing his gullet.

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I would not touch anything served but this man

People have to stop contradicting themselves like they actually eat at McDonalds. Yall followed Morgan Spurlock's movie and cried bloody murder about Mickey Ds. Now you care about the cook?

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window. “

Brilliant—after eight years(!) of political persecution and turmoil (which would have ruined anyone else's political career), the man survives two assassination attempts, is endorsed by a Kennedy and Elon Musk and still finds time to work at McDonald's, gaining the sympathy of more Americans and putting him in an even better position to become the 47th President of the United States—one of the most iconic campaigns of all time.

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This is flying over the head of the bitter crybabies. If Kamala constantly lies about her past and identity, she is capable of lying about everything else. She is using identity politics and not being Trump as her selling point. She has nothing good in her track record that makes me believe she can lead the U.S.

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"Here are your fries. You want fries with that? Some people work here, you know, and others haven't. I won't mention any names. But would you care about how well, where was I? Oh. Where am I." It's hard to like a man who works at McDonalds for the show. Then a long nap.

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I’m roughly Kamala’s age and I don’t have a single photo of me doing any of the many menial part-time jobs I did as a teen. Working at McDonald’s is hardly anything someone was/is going to waste camera film on.

Just another bad faith swift boat hit job by Chris LaCivita.

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No hair net.

Either that's a health violation or that's not "hair".....

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DaDude

This is flying over the head of the bitter crybabies. If Kamala constantly lies about her past and identity, she is capable of lying about everything else.

She doesn't lie about her past and identity.

She is using identity politics

No she isn't.

and not being Trump as her selling point.

Well, as a person with character as opposed to a craven grifter.

She has nothing good in her track record that makes me believe she can lead the U.S.

After years of public service, she offers hope to the American people.

Trump has never worked in service of others. Trump offers nothing except what's in it for him.

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I’m roughly Kamala’s age and I don’t have a single photo of me doing any of the many menial part-time jobs I did as a teen. Working at McDonald’s is hardly anything someone was/is going to waste camera film on

The 3 small businesses that served as my first job don't even exist anymore.

And as almost all McD's are individually owned franchises and not part of some large corporate conglomerate, it's utterly unsurprising that they had no comment either way.

In the end, this os a surreal, pathetic cry for attention from an old man with a narcisstic injury and in cognitive decline.

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McDonald’s did and said that they have no record of her working there.

This was a social media claim by the head of Students for Trump. No evidence was given.

McDonald’s has said nothing about this matter.

Otherwise prove me wrong.

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I wouldn't vote for him as town dog catcher the way he has manged his own companies let alone president of the United States. If it weren't for the electoral collage, he wouldn't have gotten elected in 2016. God help the world if he gets a second term!

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That’s probably the first honest work Trump has done in years.

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The media fact-check any throwaway remark that Trump makes but lets the other party candidates get away with anything they are claiming.

-14 ( +2 / -16 )

stormcrow -- If you look closer, you'll see he sneaked one of those fries out for himself. Let's say "almost" the first honest work he's done. Probably ever.

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Real MAGA at work!

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burgers and beers

Damn, that Donald is popular. What a true man of the people, US is lucky to have such a leader putting America and its citizens first.

Love the sarcasm.

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burgers and beersToday 10:49 am JST

"Trump's visit created a spectacle in Pennsylvania Police closed the busy streets around the McDonald’s during Trump's visit. Authorities cordoned off the restaurant as a crowd a couple blocks long gathered, sometimes 10- to 15-deep, across the street straining to catch a glimpse of Trump. Horns honked and music blared as Trump supporters waved flags, held signs and took pictures."

Damn, that Donald is popular. What a true man of the people, US is lucky to have such a leader putting America and its citizens first.

We are cursed, however, with supporters of foreign governments trying to reinstall their asset.

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It's nice to see a local business giving him a 2nd chance.

Most convicted felons struggle to find even the most menial job opportunities.

From the blank slack-faced stare he gives the camera, I'd say he has found his niche.

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The video of this is so hilarious. When trump is trying to move the fryer basket he knocks the tongs into the deep fryer, and is totally oblivious.l to even doing it.

This is what it looks like when you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth and never actually cook a meal or do any physical labor in your entire life. Must be nice to have daddy take care of you.

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Somebody said the other day - You vote for Trump and you get a team with Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard as part of his government

Who said that? Was that on Twitter?

Musk is unbalanced, Kennedy is a gibbering crackpot, Vivek is a noisemaker, Gabbard is a grifter with the charisma of a pork chop.

No Vance?

4 ( +8 / -4 )

I find politicians doing real jobs for five-minute photo-ops the equivalent of Japanese kids going to the Kidzania theme park. Its fine for 10 year olds, but dumb to think its any more than posing for an adult.

538's prediction now has Trump very marginally ahead on a too-close-to-call. I do not understand why and do not want him to win, but it is looking more likely than it did a month ago.

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