Donald Trump pretended to be working at a McDonald’s location closed to the public and stocked with his supporters on Sunday. The staged event at the restaurant in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, was part of the long-time conspiracy theorist’s promotion of...
It’s actually funny how this stuff keeps playing out. Some weird conspiracy theory bounces around in the right wing echo chamber for a few weeks, and then, just when it’s been transformed into an even more absurd form, it escapes into the mainstream by something Trump says and does, and it just immediately alienates anyone who isn’t terminally online.
First it was the immigrants eating cats story, now there’s suddenly pictures of Trump looking dumpy working at McDonald’s because it’s somehow hard to believe Harris worked a summer job when she was a teenager, like 99% of us did.
It’s actually funny how this stuff keeps playing out. Some weird conspiracy theory bounces around in the right wing echo chamber for a few weeks, and then, just when it’s been transformed into an even more absurd form, it escapes into the mainstream by something Trump says and does, and it just immediately alienates anyone who isn’t terminally online.
First it was the immigrants eating cats story, now there’s suddenly pictures of Trump looking dumpy working at McDonald’s because it’s somehow hard to believe Harris worked a summer job when she was a teenager, like 99% of us did.