coming up on this episode of the roundtable.

The New York Times had this paragraph in a piece

where they said, we've consulted many former McDonald's

employees and they really say Trump didn't know what he was doing at the Fry thing.

I mean he put too much salt on thing and then threw salt over his shoulder saying that

you got to do it over the left shoulder because I'm superstitious and the lack of joy on the left in conducting this campaign and from the Harris campaign

compared with Trump just having a grand old time I think is one of the you know you can't quote

we on this because how do you prove such a thing, but I think it's a big part of the

deflating of the balloon of the Harris Wall's campaign, and I don't care what anybody says,

that whole McDonald's thing was just a lot of fun.

Oh man, they fact checked his McDonald's shift.

It's beautiful.

I couldn't have asked for more.

They really, it was very short-sighted of them in retrospect to make the Kamala thing about joy.

Because they were obviously trying to rest this property away from Trump who obviously is having a good time and

manufacture it for themselves. The Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable, the publisher and editors

podcast at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute. I'm your host. Fresh off a trip to New York. It's why I missed last week.

I just want to flag it before I do our normal introductions of our usual suspects, but we presented

our Salvatore Prize in the American founding to our chairman, Tom Klingenstein.

Now some of you, maybe those that hate listen to this will think this is maybe ridiculous, but it's not.

Tom has been doing much more over the last decade than merely giving the Claremont Institute money and funding other right-wing clauses.

I mean his philanthropy has been very important. It's been a big part of some of our expanded successes,

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