Re: Dave Portnoy, Megyn Kelly Slam Media Pearl-Clutching About Trump McDonalds Visit

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:57:17 -0400, Rhino
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On 2024-10-22 4:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly and more
have destroyed the left’s pearl-clutching over former President Donald
Trump’s stop at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania where he worked the drive-thru and
as a fry cooker for 15 minutes on Sunday.
 
Media outlets like Rolling Stone magazine, Newsweek, and CNN have slammed
Trump for what they’ve called a “bizarre” photo-op and a “staged” event for
his 15 minutes of work at McDonald’s, where he drew attention to the claim by
Vice President Kamala Harris that she worked there in college, though the
campaign has yet to provide proof.
 
Portnoy took to social media and sarcastically wrote on X that, “Woodward and
Bernstein who?  Looks like @Newsweek just wrapped up the Pulitzer for
investigative journalism.  Next up. Rumors Santa may not be real….”
 
The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast agreed, and reposted a screenshot
of one person’s response to the Newsweek headline calling it “perfect.” The
person wrote sarcastically “Wait he wasn’t actually hired as the new fry
guy?”
 
The host of “Young Turks” Cenk Uygur posted on social media and wrote, “Some
in the press called Trump’s McDonald’s photo-op bizarre. This is how you lose
credibility.”
 
“That was a home run photo-op,” he added.”He looked like a real person there,
connecting with the average American. If you can’t see that, you’re totally
blind.”
 
Woodward and Bernstein who? Looks like @Newsweek just wrapped up
the Pulitzer for investigative journalism. Next up. Rumors Santa
may not be real…. https://t.co/vaXvUAYCqF
 
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) October 21, 2024
 
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway wrote, “Where would we be without corporate
media telling us that Donald Trump is *not* an actual McDonald’s employee…”
 
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh also saw the Newsweek post and said jokingly on X,
“This is false. Trump applied for the position online two weeks ago. He got
the job and showed up to work his shift. The hours aren’t flexible enough to
allow him to run for president though, so my sources tell me he’ll be
transitioning into a part time cashier role at Kroger.”
 
Another person wrote that Newsweek should “dust off the mantle, the Pulitzer
Prize is on the way.” And “Mark my words, once the press takes down Trump in
the McWatergate scandal, enrollment in journalism schools will quadruple.”
 
Newsweek later doubled down on its Trump-McD’s piece with a second one about
how the McDonald’s where Trump appeared had “failed its last health
inspection.”
 
“An inspection report for the McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania cited
employees not having ‘hands clean and properly washed,'” the X post read.
 
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus and host Ben Shapiro reacted to the headlines and
wrote that the reason Leftists are “losing their minds over Trump’s
McDonald’s campaign appearance” is “because it demonstrates that he likes and
cares about regular Americans. That’s genuine. As opposed to Kamala, who must
receive a briefing session to pretend to care.”
 

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Three things struck me about Trump's McDonald's visit:
1. He was absolutely courteous with his trainer who showed him how to
work the fryer and pack the fries. He didn't act as if he knew it all
already and made sure he was doing the job correctly, although he may
have been a touch over-generous with the salt.

2. The customers who he served at the drive-thru window were ecstatic to
see him and chat with him. That didn't seem faked to me in the
slightest. They were pleased as punch to be meeting him.

That isn't a surprise as they were all hand picked Trump fans. They
each had to practice going through the line multiple times before
Trump arrived. So the Trump people knew these 'customers' were going
to be happy to see Trump.  A normal mix of customers would have given
a more varied set of reactions to having Trump hand out food.

3. One of the reports I saw showed the HUGE mob of people that was
waiting on the sidewalks in the blocks adjacent to the restaurant.
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His appearance there must have been advertised ahead of time. Were the
mobs on the sidewalk just there in the hopes of catching a glimpse of
him as he drove by or were all of those people lined up to get into
McDonald's in the hopes of being served by him and possibly chatting
with him?

Yeah, the store even had a sign posted that it would be closed that
day for a Trump event so I'm sure the people in the area knew that
Trump was coming ahead of time.