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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Bizarre Stunt at McDonald’s Fryer Blows Up in His Face

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4803 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

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The other day, Donald Trump traveled to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and play acted as a McDonald's worker. His propagandists erupted in delirium, hailing it as akin to the greatest act of political theater in human history.

1:36.8

But Trump ran into trouble. He evaded a question about whether he would support a minimum wage

1:42.2

hike, producing some pretty scalding headlines.

1:45.4

Which gets at a larger scam. Trump enjoys public approval on the economy, even though his

1:51.3

agenda for working people is borderline non-existent, whereas Harris has a detailed economic agenda

1:56.8

for working and middle-class people alike. Huff Post senior reporter Jonathan Cohn has written a good new piece laying out what this

2:05.0

McDonald's stunt really tells us about that larger story.

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So we invited him on to talk about all of it.

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Great to have you on, John.

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Thank you, Greg.

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