Trump claims Harris ‘lied’ about working at the fast-food restaurant while studying for an undergraduate degree in the 1980s
Former President Trump is making an unusual campaign stop this weekend in battleground Pennsylvania.
The Republican presidential nominee will be behind the counter working the fry cooker at a McDonald’s restaurant in the Philadelphia area.
“A friend of mine owns a McDonald’s someplace,” Trump said Friday in an extended interview on “Fox and Friends” when asked about his weekend plans for manning the fry station at the fast-food institution.
“Oh, I’m going. I’m going to do everything.”
Former President Trump says he will work the frying station at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s this weekend. (AP Images/Getty Images)
With 2½ weeks to go until Election Day, Trump remains locked in a tight presidential race with Vice President Kamala Harris.
And Trump continues to claim Harris never worked at McDonald’s.
As Harris campaigns to succeed President Biden in the White House, she has spotlighted her middle-class upbringing and her time working at McDonald’s while studying for her undergraduate degree in the 1980s, contrasting Trump’s wealthy upbringing.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at UAW Local 652 during a campaign event in Lansing, Mich., Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“I have” [worked at McDonald’s], Harris said in an MSNBC interview last month.
As Harris campaigns to succeed President Biden in the White House, she has spotlighted her middle-class upbringing and her time working at McDonald’s while studying for her undergraduate degree in the 1980s, contrasting Trump’s wealthy upbringing.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at UAW Local 652 during a campaign event in Lansing, Mich., Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
“I have” [worked at McDonald’s], Harris said in an MSNBC interview last month.
“I’m going because she lied,” Trump said in his “Fox and Friends” interview.
“You don’t think she ever worked in McDonald’s?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked.
“I know she didn’t. We checked it out,” Trump said. “They said she never worked here.”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.
