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 DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · Greg Sargent
October 22, 202426m 26s
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Show Notes
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. Listen to this episode here.
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