McDonald's is a low-stakes ally for Trump, a dangerous foe for fulminating media - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : (The Secret Service had to screen the customers in light of the two failed assassination attempts aimed at Trump in the past four months.)
40% : "In 2019 and 2020, activists called on Derek Giacomantonio, the franchisee who opened his doors to Trump on Sunday, to raise wages at one of his franchises in Philadelphia," the Washington Post said.
31% : "Newsweek deployed a London-based reporter to berate the franchise for previously failing a health inspection and parrot a baseless claim by Meidas Touch that Trump didn't wash his hands before handling food at the branch.
29% : Attack Trump is you must, but attacking McDonald's, the brand, or worse, McDonald's, the individual branch of hard workers who didn't insert themselves into the national spotlight, is destined to backfire on a media whose credibility has already cratered.
28% : Rather than discern whether or not Harris actually worked at McDonald's when she said she did, the Washington Post did a deep dive into the specific location that hosted Trump on Sunday.
27% : Some outlets, such as MSNBC, excoriated Trump for the "trolling exercise," lambasting other reporters for describing Trump's shift as "work" when actually "the people ordering the food had been carefully chosen to appear in some kind of clumsy political play."
21% : Another source, @CHERRYW00609336 on Twitter, was cited to accuse Trump of committing a "health and safety code violation.
10% : "Vice presidential nominee and official Harris emotional support-cum-attack dog Tim Walz unfortunately has to attack Trump every time he breathes or belches, but the media industry doesn't have to humiliate itself like this.

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