Trump Roasted for Failing to Even Fake Working at McDonald’s Right
Donald Trump’s weekend work trip to a closed McDonald’s franchise was intended to help him connect with working-class voters—but regulars and staff members alike at the burger chain weren’t so impressed.
Reviewers on Yelp torched the former president’s performance, even though the Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, location where Trump “worked” had actually closed for the photo-op.
“Customer service was a joke. Senile old man got bronzer on my fries, didn’t wear gloves,” one reviewer, “Karen S,” wrote on the review site. “Repeated himself several times, something about Ronald McDonald in the showers at the golf club? … 0 stars. Do not recommend.”
Another critic, “Christopher F,” complained that a “creepy old man” working the drive-through window “offered to pay me some hush money to keep this story quiet.”
But Trump’s performance drew some legitimate ire from workers at the international restaurant.
A cashier at a McDonald’s location in Astoria, Queens, felt that the campaign stop minimized the work of her and her colleagues, and managers were wholly unimpressed by Trump’s workplace etiquette. One Flatbush, Brooklyn, area manager shook her head at a clip of Trump playfully throwing salt over his left shoulder to ward off bad luck.
“You don’t throw salt like that,” Kishia, who asked that her last name not be used since she was on the clock, told The New York Times. “Somebody could have been behind him, you know?”
But perhaps most egregious was Trump’s french fry form.
While surveying damage from Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, North Carolina, on Monday, Trump was awarded one of McDonald’s honors—a “french fry certification” pin—for playing make believe behind the fryer. The gift came from North Carolina Representative Chuck Edwards, who said that he owned several locations of the fast food purveyor.
“The box is, like, backwards,” New York McDonald’s employee David Ye told the Times, referring to the fry carton. “He doesn’t seem to know how to do it.”