In keeping with an earlier promise, former President Donald Trump visited a Pennsylvania McDonald’s for a 15-minute shift at the fry station and drive-through. The CBS Evening News came unglued.
Watch as correspondent Caitlyn Huey-Burns dismisses the Trump workday as little more than a “political stunt”:
CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS: Former President Donald Trump put on an apron today to pull off a political stunt in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Working the fryer to try and claim, without any evidence, that Vice President Kamala Harris didn't work at a McDonald's while in college as she said she did.
DONALD TRUMP: She never worked at McDonald's.
One imagines the hushed, reverential tones that Huey-Burns might deploy were Kamala Harris to take a shift working the Baby ChopVac 9000 at the local Planned Parenthood. She might even call it an example of Harris being relatable. She certainly wouldn’t sneeringly call it a “stunt”.
But, alas, this is Donald Trump. At a McDonald’s. Doing something we used to call “retail politics”. And the Regime Media, in their perpetual bitterness, are bitter at the fact Trump can pull these things off without running away from unscheduled human contact.
In this bitterness, Huey-Burns is left to firefight for Kamala Harris’s college job at McDonald’s which, without evidence, she claims to have worked.
If it weren’t for Regime Media, we’d have none at all.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Weekend News on Sunday, October 20th, 2024:
CBS WEEKEND NEWS
10/20/24
6:02 PM
JERICKA DUNCAN: We begin tonight with both presidential candidates barnstorming in battleground states in a push to get out the vote. Harris marked her 60th birthday, making two stops at two churches in Georgia. Stevie Wonder joined her at one of them to sing “Happy Birthday.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump made a brief stop at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania before heading to a rally in that state. CBS's Caitlin Huey-Burns is covering it all for us and leads us off tonight in Pittsburgh. Caitlin, good evening to you.
CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS: Good evening to you, Jericka. Well, the stark contrast between these two candidates was on full display today, with Kamala Harris working to turn out churchgoers in Georgia and Donald Trump working at a McDonald's near Philadelphia.
Former President Donald Trump put on an apron today to pull off a political stunt in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Working the fryer to try and claim, without any evidence, that Vice President Kamala Harris didn't work at a McDonald's while in college as she said she did.
DONALD TRUMP: She never worked at McDonald's.
HUEY-BURNS: At a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh Saturday, Trump delivered some of his harshest insults of Harris yet.
TRUMP” You’re a (shit) Vice president. The worst -- you're the worst vice president.
HUEY-BURNS: And went on a lengthy and lewd riff about the legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, who is also from Latrobe.
TRUMP: This is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, oh, my god. That's unbelievable.
HUEY-BURNS: Today the vice president reacted to Trump's name-calling.
KAMALA HARRIS: The American people deserve so much better.
HUEY-BURNS: Harris started her day in another battleground, Georgia.
She attended church with Stevie Wonder and marked her 60th birthday.
HARRIS: We each as individuals and as a community have the power to make decisions through these next 16 days that will be about a statement about what kind of country do we want to live in.
HUEY-BURNS: Both candidates are here in Pennsylvania this evening. Harris will be campaigning near Philadelphia with Liz Cheney tomorrow. And Trump is back here in Pittsburgh to attend a Steelers game tonight. Jericka.
DUNCAN: Caitlin, thank you.
