The Daily Blast
Trump’s Bizarre Stunt at McDonald’s Fryer Blows Up in His Face
After Trump's photo op at a McDonald's goes awry, the author of a new piece on the whole saga explains what all this says about the fraudulence of his economic agenda for working people.
The other day, Donald Trump playacted as a worker at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. But he ran into trouble, evading a question about whether he would support a minimum wage hike, producing scalding headlines. Which gets at a larger scam: Trump enjoys public approval on the economy, even though his agenda for working people is borderline nonexistent, whereas Harris has a detailed economic agenda for working and middle class people alike. We talked to HuffPost senior reporter Jonathan Cohn, author of a good new piece on the McDonald’s saga, who explains how this stunt captures the fraudulence of Trump’s economic plans—and the authenticity of Harris’s middle class biography.
