Trump Dons Apron, Works Drive-thru, Fry Station at Bucks County, PA McDonald's, Warming Hearts and Exploding Heads | naked capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : First, all campaign events are staged; and it's especially important to stage campaign events properly, so Trump doesn't get successfully assassinatedl, 'third time is the charm"-style.
67% : Mainstream Coverage From AP, "Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald's" FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) -- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window.
63% : The former president handed out food to pre-selected supporters in five cars. From the Daily Mail, "Trump serves McDonald's customers and says 'I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala'" Trump then proceeded to dip wire baskets of potatoes in sizzling oil before salting them and handing them out to customers through the restaurant's drive-through window.
60% : And that is exactly what Trump did, as we shall see.
58% : Video captured from within the kitchen on Sunday showed Trump, 78, passing out orders to a group of grateful prearranged 'customers' - Trump supporters understood to have been pre-selected by his camp - who were were to see the ex-president serving their food and told him why they'll be supporting him in the election next month.
58% : One man, apparently accompanied by his wife, told Trump, 78, 'you are the type of person we want to be the president', after thanking him for 'everything you're doing.'
53% : "," Trump said with a grin, putting away his suit jacket and wearing an apron over his shirt and tie.
51% : Trump, a well-known fan of fast food and a notorious germophobe, expressed amazement that he didn't have to touch the fries with his hands.
46% : The essential point is not -- as neoliberals would have it -- the fact of a transaction, but the reality that Trump did the work ("dip[ped] wire baskets of potatoes in sizzling oil before salting them and handing them out")
45% : From the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Bucks County, the last purple part of Philly's suburbs, could swing the race for Trump or Harris -- and they know it": Bucks County is known for vote splitting and politically moderate voters.
38% : As reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a scoop.
19% : Trump lost the county in 2016 and 2020 but by narrower margins than the rest of the Philly region.
17% : (The press, in other words, has it exactly backwards: They say that Trump claims "without evidence" that Kamala didn't work at McDonald's.
13% : From CBS, "Trump works drive-thru at Pennsylvania McDonald's before town hall in Lancaster": Trump stopped at the McDonald's in Feasterville, Bucks County, on Sunday, where he donned an apron and worked the drive-thru.
7% : Staged, Fake, or a Stunt Hence, liberal Democrat-aligned headlines like Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop (WaPo), The difference between work and Trump's staged McDonald's theatrics (MSNBC), or These 25 BRUTAL reactions to Trump fake working at a CLOSED McDonald's have us HOWLING (Pride) miss the point entirely:

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