Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is exploiting the fact that McDonald’s is in the news.
Vice President Kamala Harris has mentioned working briefly at McDonald’s in the 1980s while she was a student. She repeated this information as recently as August 31. She tweeted a photo of herself and her VP pick, Tim Walz. Her caption read, “Two middle-class kids. One, a daughter of Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.
“The other, a son of the Nebraska plains, who spent summers on the farm. Only in America is it possible that the two of us would be running together all the way to the White House.”
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Two middle-class kids.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 31, 2024
One, a daughter of Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.
The other, a son of the Nebraska plains, who spent summers on the farm.
Only in America is it possible that the two of us would be… pic.twitter.com/le6xrf55E0
Former President Donald Trump is known to love McDonald’s, even giving out the company’s food at past White House events. He clearly loathes the fact Harris has a connection to the famed “Golden Arches” and has decided she must be lying. He points to a lack of evidence to back up her claim.
Trump has repeatedly posted comments to social media calling her a liar. He has repeated this belief at rallies.
Minimum wage
Yesterday, Buttigieg decided to take advantage of the fact to raise some issues of his own.
“If we’re really going to have to talk about McDonald’s for a couple online news cycles, then let it be about how and why Trump and the GOP oppose increasing the minimum wage, but made sure to cut taxes for McDonald’s Corporation,” Buttigieg posted on X.
His tweet received over 32,000 likes.
If we’re really going to have to talk about McDonald’s for a couple online news cycles, then let it be about how and why Trump and the GOP oppose increasing the minimum wage, but made sure to cut taxes for McDonald’s Corporation.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) September 24, 2024
Predictably, some Trump supporters blasted Buttigieg and repeated Trump’s claim that Harris was lying.
Others applauded the Transportation Secretary for highlighting minimum wage issues, or had their own pop at Trump.
Trump has no clue on the economy and will bankrupt us like his investors pic.twitter.com/vC5Jt8Y6Gz
— gbt (@gbt) September 24, 2024
McDonalds itself has made no statement regarding Harris’s claim that she once worked there. Conservative media outlets have obtained old resumes belonging to Harris when she started to apply for work after graduating college. They do not list McDonalds, but then again, not everyone lists all their summer jobs on their resume after they leave college.
Many others have pointed out it’s unlikely that McDonalds has kept employment records of summer staff from over 30 years ago.
I also worked briefly at a McDonalds as a kid and never put it on a job application after graduating college. I also had a paper route, shoveled driveways, mowed grass and raked leaves. Never included those either. Hell of a scandal. They really got her this time. pic.twitter.com/YMYukBKzBZ
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 29, 2024
Fact-check site Snopes did an investigation into Harris working at McDonald’s. It rated the claim neither fales nor true, but “unproven”.
“Aside from Harris’ testimony itself, there is no evidence (such as a photo, employment record or confirmation from a friend or family member) to independently verify the claim. We’ve reached out to Harris’ campaign and McDonald’s and we’ll update this report when, or if, we learn more.”
Another debate
In other election-related news, Kamala Harris has accepted a CNN invitation to take part in a second debate with Donald Trump in October. The former President has yet to respond but has indicated in the past he sees little reason to debate Harris again.
Most observers feel Harris won the first debate against Trump. Despite his lack of enthusiasm to take part, some close to the Trump campaign believe that ducking out may do Trump more harm than good.
“We’re in a very tight race. I like where President Trump stands,” said Steve Cortes, a former adviser to Trump, to The Hill. “However, I think any of us who do polling, who read polling carefully realize that this race is super, super tight and in that environment, I don’t think we should skip an opportunity to speak in front of a super large audience of Americans.”
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ZzBomb
Trump’s age and mental decline are really showing at his latest low energy rallies.
Meanwhile, Harris and Walz fill whole stadiums with happy, USA loving people b/c they understand American is already GREAT!
abfab
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POSITIVITY!
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CHOICE!
SMART!
VOTE HARRIS/WALZ 2024!
War On Free Speech
@ZzBomb
Love the gaslighting, Zz. Trump rallies are organic with Americans from the local area.
The same can’t be said for Kammie. When they have to send in busloads to fill the space for rallies, it isn’t a good sign. I’ve seen the videos of the buses rolling in. If they don’t bus them in, it is a very sad turnout.
Eternal.Cowboy
Are the busloads in the room with you?
ZzBomb
Imagine thinking I’m the one “gaslighting” when Waron has already been gas lit and indoctrinated into the cult of personality that is Trumpism. Hilariously sad.
ZzBomb
“I’ve seen the videos of the buses rolling in.”
Sure, Jan.
War On Free Speech
@Eternal.Cowboy
“Fact-check site Snopes did an investigation into Harris working at McDonald’s. It rated the claim neither fales nor true, but “unproven”.
“Aside from Harris’ testimony itself, there is no evidence (such as a photo, employment record or confirmation from a friend or family member) to independently verify the claim.”
No photo!?! What!?! All the left-wing Snopes needs to do is contact our own Eternal Cowboy who claims to not only have seen a picture of Kammie in uniform, but also knows the name of the franchisee. LOL!!!
ZzBomb
Waron should change its name to “whataboutism.”
It’s all they have to deflect from the fact their very old, very tired, very senile candidate incoherently rambles for 90 minutes at rallies that people leave early from b/c he has no vision for a future apart of settling his quixotic grievances.
SteveInQueens
This
RIGay
Wait until DonOld finds out Kamala not only worked at McDonald’s but spit in his Big Mac.
abfab
Waron still gets his fake news from the employment section of Craigslist.
abfab
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bernie Moreno, during a recent campaign stop, said it’s “a little crazy” that many suburban women vote based on abortion rights, and he questioned why women over the age of 50 care about abortion at all.
“You know, the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Moreno said during a town-hall meeting in Warren County on Friday, according to a recording obtained by cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion’s it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.’”
Moreno continued: “It’s a little crazy, by the way, but, especially for women that are like past 50, I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.’”
(the Republican-It’s all about me)
Eternal.Cowboy
“All the left-wing Snopes needs to do is contact our own Eternal Cowboy who claims to not only have seen a picture of Kammie in uniform, but also knows the name of the franchisee. LOL!!!”
I never claimed to have seen a picture of her in uniform. What I said what the McDonalds can’t verify her employment because the two locations where she lived were franchised and that the franchise owner had changed since she worked there.
My comments have the benefit of being correct and verifiable unlike the Magic School Bus that only you can see.
Mack
Waron as usual you Republikans accuse the Democrats of “cheating” like you do. As far as McD goes, if she worked for a franchisee, the McD Corp wouldn’t have records of her being employed. As someone who has worked in the restaurant industry for 35 years I can attest to the turn over in the business and most companies don’t keep records going back of their employees for five years. Harris’s employment preceded computer age of most restaurants, so even if they had the records they would have to go through THOUSANDS to find her.
Kangol2
Has Waron accounted yet for why major far right influencers were caught on the payroll of Russia just weeks ago?
Also, should DJT, who inherited $413 million from daddy, be calling anyone out over working at a fast food restaurant?
abfab
Waron is friendless on both sides of the aisle. He thinks he’s here for our enjoyment. No fun there, but we do get a greater look inside the head of a true maga. He represents!
Bosch
“Trump rallies are organic with Americans from the local area.”
Uh-oh! Is that a bit of a Slavic accent I hear?
War On Free Speech
@Mack
Kammie made an assertion about her employment that was brand new. When Kammie and her campaign were asked to elaborate, they wanted the issue to disappear. Why?
If she is so proud to have worked there, why not give us the location and employment dates? Why the big secret?
Eternal Cowboy can clear all of this up because of a “super easy” Google search he claims he found the name of the franchisee. He should make national news!
abfab
How sad to be so hung up on big macs. Wow.
abfab
Waron still works at HoJos and is super angry Mickey Dees fired him for sucking down the fries.
GayEGO
Yay! Pete Buttigieg knows what he is talking about! Vote for Harris/Walz!
barbrasings
What is Waron even doing here anyway, besides deliberately trying to provoke and antagonize and get a reaction out of us? Gay Repuglicans are an anomaly.
My mother had an expression for people like Waron, people who are so opinionated and so brainwashed that there is no reasoning with them — “My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with the facts.”
SethEd
I love Big Macs, and no, the special sauce is not thousand island dressing.
How “briefly” did she work there. If she would just say which McDonald’s it was, this story goes away.
I too have seen videos of people being bussed in for her rallies.
And for minimum wage, the McDonald’s in my small southern town pays well over minimum wage. The market takes care of itself, no need for legislation.
Jimmynj
Pete B knows how to get under the skin of MAGA. God, I love him!!!
lambchopp59
Hilarity of MAGA attempts to latch hold and harp on any insanely insignificant detail to demonize the opposition when their own tin god is the most corrupt buffoon ever to disgrace worldwide attention. The utter vacuum of self awareness, screaming with bumperstickers tantamount to tantrums devoid of substance to anyone not completely bamboozled into their cult mentality, somehow convinced Trump’s bumbling farce of ideas will bring about radical deflation. It’s like my worst nightmares about what an idiot troop Fox News could bring about became reality far beyond my greatest fears.