McDonald’s issues statement after Trump campaign stop at Pa. location

Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump’s Sunday sojourn to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s prompted the accelerated nutrient edifice to marque clear it isn’t taking sides successful the 2024 race.

“McDonald’s does not endorse candidates for elected bureau and that remains existent successful this contention for the adjacent President,” the institution said successful a memo obtained by CNN and posted by a societal media idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium a McDonald’s franchise operator. “We are not reddish oregon bluish — we are golden.”

Trump visited an independently operated store successful Feasterville-Trevose Sunday, wherever helium operated a French fry cooker and handed bags of nutrient to vetted supporters extracurricular a drive-thru window, according to the Washington Post. The edifice wasn’t different unfastened for concern and nary orders were reportedly taken. Supporters took what they were given.

McDonald’s firm statement to franchisees makes wide the institution didn’t invitation the 78-year-old fast nutrient enthusiast to usage 1 of its licensed franchises successful a publicity stunt, but said “we unfastened our doors to everyone.”

Former President Donald Trump serves gallic fries arsenic an worker looks connected during a sojourn to McDonald’s successful Feasterville-Trevose, Pa., Sunday. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

The eatery added that it didn’t mean to beryllium a subordinate successful the governmental process, but the information it has go 1 is simply a “testament to however overmuch McDonald’s resonates with truthful galore Americans.”

The astir 70-year-old institution archetypal became progressive successful the statesmanlike contention aft Democratic Party campaigner Kamala Harris said she was employed by a California McDonald’s that helped her pay for college during summertime 1983. She got her bachelor’s grade from Howard University successful Washington, D.C., and attended instrumentality schoolhouse astatine the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

Harris, who celebrated her 60th day Sunday, has spoken astir her clip nether the Golden Arches wherever she said her responsibilities included making fries and operating a currency register.

Former President Donald Trump holds an bid adjacent the drive-thru model during a sojourn to McDonald’s successful Feasterville-Trevose, Pa., Sunday. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump has questioned whether Harris was employed by the burger joint, which says it doesn’t support records dating backmost that far.

“I’ve present worked for 15 minutes much than Kamala,” Trump said Sunday.

According to Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s book, the former president’s favourite McDonalds order consists of a Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake. Asked astir his favourite paper items Sunday, Trump answered “I similar it all.”

McDonald’s didn’t respond to a petition for comment.