Donald Trump serves fries at McDonald’s while Kamala Harris celebrates 60th birthday
Donald Trump worked the drive-through at a Maccas store, as a singing legend serenaded Kamala Harris on her 60th birthday. Watch video.
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Republican fast food enthusiast Donald Trump donned a black-and-yellow apron over his white shirt and red tie to serve French fries at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania.
The campaign stunt was intended as a jab at opponent Kamala Harris, who says she worked at the fast food franchise in her youth.
Mr Trump has repeatedly said, without offering evidence, that Ms Harris never worked at a McDonald’s while in college, an experience she has spoken about on the campaign.
On Sunday local time, an employee of the restaurant patiently showed the 78-year-old Republican how to scoop fries into cartons to be distributed at the drive-through window, as media gathered for the photo-op outside.
Famously a germophobe, Mr Trump marvelled at the serving tool used to distribute the fried potatoes without picking them up: “It’s clean, it’s really nice, you never touch ‘em.”
“I’ll never forget this experience,” he said, as he finished up the campaign stop meant to appeal to working-class voters.
“It requires expertise. I’m going through the French fry stuff.”
“I don’t mind this job,” he continued, at one point asking if customers ever ask for more salt.
“I love salt!” he exclaimed, also throwing some over his shoulder onto the floor, explaining that he is “superstitious.”
Told by reporters that Sunday was also his opponent Ms Harris’s 60th birthday, Mr Trump wished her a “happy birthday.”
“I think I’ll get her some flowers,” he quipped.
“Maybe I’ll get her some fries.”
Ms Harris made campaign stops at black churches in Georgia as her opponent served fries.
Music legend Stevie Wonder accompanied Democrat Harris at one of her appearances in a suburb of Atlanta, singing the vice president his rendition of “Happy Birthday” while urging voters to “think about more than yourself when you vote.”
In brief remarks Ms Harris echoed that sentiment, saying, “Ours is a country that is about doing things that are focused on the best interest of our children, our families, giving people the resources they need around assistance, helping people pull out of poverty.”
Earlier, speaking at a Baptist mega church near Atlanta, she had urged a black congregation to embrace compassionate values while others “spread hate, sow fear and cause chaos.”
Ms Harris did not mention Mr Trump by name but the crowd nodded knowingly to her allusions to her Republican rival.
Georgia is one of the key states that are expected to decide the November 5 election.
Both candidates also planned events later Sunday in Pennsylvania, which both sides see as a must-win.
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