Trump Is Serving Up False Promises to American Workers -- With a Side of Fries

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Still flush from his exhilarating tour at the fry baskets, Trump brandished a "french fry certification pin" at a visit to inspect hurricane devastation at Asheville, North Carolina -- the same site where he disclaimed any responsibility for promoting the conspiracy rhetoric that has spurred vigilante gunmen to face down FEMA workers in the field.
52% : Trump is well positioned to exploit this bogus brand of class identity, since despite being to-the-manner born, his taste in all things cultural is not particularly highbrow.
49% : Trump and his team had been touting his appearance over the past week as a means of trolling his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has referred to her own summer job at a Bay Area McDonald's in 1983 as part of her middle-class upbringing.
46% : The episode was a Potemkin spectacle -- the franchise was actually closed to customers for the photo-op, and the customers Trump pretended to serve were MAGA supporters pre-vetted by the Secret Service; those faux customers even did trial runs through the restaurant's drive-thru lane in advance of Trump's star turn.
44% : On Sunday, Trump donned an apron at a McDonald's franchise in Bucks County, Penn., to briefly pretend to work the french-fry station.
41% : Trump is another son of privilege who's thrust himself into the role of savior of forgotten American workers -- yet he has continued to govern like a rapacious mogul, delivering tax cuts for the wealthy, cracking down on workers' collective bargaining protections, and reneging on his pledges to rescue American manufacturing plants.
37% : Indeed, just prior to LARPing as a McDonald's fry cook, Trump made a campaign stop in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to reprise his pretend role as a heroic savior of American industry; he donned a safety helmet to woo Keystone State steel workers, and then proceeded to riff on the majesty of golfer Arnold Palmer's manhood.
34% : Instead, outlets like The New York Times witlessly treated the Bucks County stunt as just more savvy positioning for the blue-collar vote, while MAGA-addled pundit Piers Morgan marveled that the spectacle of Trump behind the fry station was "was not just hilariously funny, it was also a powerful connective link to regular voters.
10% : Trump has branded Harris's claim a lie without offering any evidence for disbelieving it -- so when his stint behind the fryers was over, he bragged that he'd worked at McDonald's 15 minutes longer than Harris has.

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