In predictable fashion, America’s morally and ethically bankrupt legacy media are melting down over former President Donald Trump’s visit to a McDonald’s franchise this past weekend.
The media-wide freak-out started shortly after the former president, donning an apron and his signature red tie, worked alongside McDonald’s staffers in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. While cooking french fries, Trump greeted customers at the drive-through and poked fun at Kamala Harris’ unsubstantiated claim she once worked at the popular fast-food chain.
“I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala,” Trump said.
While the GOP nominee, franchise workers, and customers appeared to have enjoyed the experience, that hasn’t stopped America’s hack-tastic “journalists” from launching a seemingly coordinated smear campaign against Trump and McDonald’s.
On Monday morning, Newsweek’s Khaleda Rahman ran a hit piece against the Feasterville franchise for hosting the former president. Titled “McDonald’s Donald Trump Worked at Failed Last Health Inspection,” the article shows how Rahman went out of her way to obtain documents purportedly indicating the restaurant “failed its last health inspection.”
The Newsweek national correspondent also parroted leftists’ talking point that the campaign stop was a “stunt” because the Secret Service reportedly vetted drive-through customers beforehand to ensure the safety of the former president, who’s been the intended target of two assassination attempts. She also placed the onus on Trump to prove Harris never worked at McDonald’s, rather than on the vice president, who has yet to provide such documentary evidence.
But Rahman was hardly the only “reporter” to use her platform to smear Trump’s old-school campaign stop.
On X, attorney and self-professed “journalist” Seth Abramson called Trump’s McDonald’s visit a “stunt” and claimed, “The whole country got sh*ttier because of this.” He also separately demanded McDonald’s indulge Democrats’ lawfare against the former president, writing, “McDonald’s needs to confirm that it doesn’t hire adjudicated rapists who are about to be sentenced on 34 state felonies a month from now, especially when they’re also out on bail in multiple jurisdictions for a slew of state and federal felonies.”
Childless man-baby Keith Olbermann similarly claimed Trump’s visit was “fake. Just like him,” and smeared the customers as “Trump Cult Members.”
While laughably embarrassing, these unhinged outbursts are totally expected. Much like their Democrat political counterparts, America’s corporate media loathe it when Trump engages in these kinds of grassroots-style campaign stops because they despise the people he’s interacting with.
The media-wide tantrum over Trump’s McDonald’s visit stems from their unbridled hatred for the working American man and woman. Unlike the former president, they view these individuals with utter disgust and would never lower themselves to partaking in such blue-collar activities.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
