MSNBC and its left-wing media ilk are melting down faster than a McFlurry in August after Donald Trump strapped on an apron behind the counter of a Pennsylvania McDonald’s over the weekend.
The outlets blasted the former president’s lighthearted campaign appearance in the key 2024 battleground as a “stunt” and “bizarre” while questioning his mental faculties and even critiquing his french fry-salting technique — only to futilely try to battle back against thousands of online critics roasting them over the lame attacks.
“So funny. ‘He’s a threat to our democracy,’ how? By handing Happy Meals?” an X user said in response to an MSNBC thread about the GOP presidential candidate’s visit that was viewed more than 3 million times.
Another person wrote,”‘It’s a stunt’ say the folks who praised Kamala for going to border 4 years too late,” referring to Dem presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’ failed tenure as border czar.
Someone else posted, “Just seeing Trump being a normal person drives the Left crazy.”
Trump manned the fry cooker and served drive-thru customers at a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pa., just outside Philadelphia on Sunday, making small talk with delighted customers and taking jabs at his opponent Harris’ alleged – and unproven – time spent working for the franchise in the early 1980s.
Other media outlets known for doing heavy lifting for the Democrats joined MSNBC in its trolling of Trump over the campaign stop, even as critics lambasted their derision as elitist and out of touch.
Rolling Stone – the far-left publication that once ran a rock-star-esque glamor shot on its cover of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – called Trump’s fast-food visit “bizarre.”
The New York Times – seemingly missing the point of the McDonald’s drop-in entirely – took Trump to task for his attire, mocking his French cuff shirt and lack of hairnet and questioning his culinary experience, writing, “There is scant evidence of Mr. Trump cooking for himself.”
But the most unhinged critique came courtesy of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” during which the show’s titular host taunted Trump for his oft-stated “love” of McDonald’s food and seemed wholly unable to wrap her head around the attention-grabbing visit.
“If you’re on his campaign, and I’m certainly not implying you are,” she said to her guest, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), with a chuckle, ”what is the logic behind this, going to a McDonald’s?”
Lee chimed in, “There’s no logic to it.
“It’s a stunt,” Lee said, continuing that Trump “appears to be not well” and saying he has “engaged in some really bizarre activities” during the 2024 campaign — before trotting out the well-worn talking point that the former president presents a “threat to our democracy.”
NBC News, which sneered at Trump for “oversalting” the fries, was quite intent on dissecting the security measures taken by the campaign ahead of the Mickey D’s stopover, even pointing out that the passengers of cars at the drive-thru were “screened and searched,” which is hardly surprising given he faced a pair of assassination attempts in as many months.
