McDonald’s workers roast Trump over ‘insulting cosplay’ stunt at restaurant that failed health inspection
Trump sported neither gloves not a hair net as he worked at a branch of the fast food chain in Pennsylvania
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Earlier this year, this location didn't meet the compliance requirements of the Bucks County Health Department. A health inspection in March at the Feasterville-Trevose location resulted in four violations, including citing employees not having their "hands clean & properly washed."
"Food employees are not washing their hands as required before putting on gloves, after handling soiled tableware, after handling raw meat, before handling clean tableware, equipment, utensils. CFSM must review hand washing requirements with staff. Observed employees handling raw beef with gloves and then switching gloves without hand washing step in-between," the health inspector wrote.
The report also noted a lack of hairnets: "Food workers are not wearing hair restraints as required, which includes management that assists in packaging and preparing food. Employees shall wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, that are effectively designed and worn to keep their hair from contacting exposed food; clean equipment, utensils and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles."
Yeah I'm sure he does, you fucking dumbass
Like that’s some kind of flex
He also knows way more about cheating on wives, wanting to fuck his daughter, getting millions of people killed, bankrupting a casino, being impeached, losing the popular vote twice in a row, and being convicted of felonies than Kamala or even most Americans. Y'all should brag about that, too.
I mean, their goal is basically going "he might be rich, but even he loves McD, just like you poor people"
He’s sooo down to earth. Truly one of the common people.
It's such a weird thing to brag about.
The MAGoos were trying to manufacture a scandal; they found one of Harris's old resumes and tried to imply that she was ashamed of her roots. Supposedly, she should have put in her time at McDonalds on a professional resume. If that sounds like a weird overreach, it's because it is a weird overreach
They should have learned their lesson when they tried attacking AOC for being a bartender...
Ahahaha! "Learn!"
Thing is they have to reach. Because they don't have any real arguments. The whole thing is a grift, so they just say whatever stupid shit they think might resonate with people they have no respect for.
I review a lot of resumes. When it's for someone right out of school or very early career, it makes sense for them to include things like fast food work or retail. But it seems really strange when someone with decades of relevant experience (I hire software engineers) includes it.
I put strange stuff like that in my resume just to stick out to people like you. Twice now I've been hired partly because I'm a Dungeon Master.
You know, I've had this debate with other managers at work. One was incensed because he got a resume that listed being a raid leader, and thought it was ridiculous. I told him I used to be a WoW raid leader and, even though it's a game, it requires explaining encounters to people who might not be familiar with them, getting ten or more people to follow a game plan, staying calm when things aren't going to plan, and a whole lot of other skills that are useful in the workplace. I've never thought to put it on my own resume, but I think it's pretty valid.
Don't all attorneys put their fast food worker experience on their resumes?
In this economy I put my attorney experience on my fast food resume!
Shit, my partner put their masters degree on a fucking to-go orders job at a restaurant...and there were 3 rounds of interviews.
When I was starting out every resume book, class, website said not to put retail or food service jobs on your resume unless you were applying to your very first professional job (shows you can hold a job and have some experience working with others and taking orders from a manager) or it was relevant to the job you were applying to.
The reason Trump and his handlers think this is such a gotcha is because they got all their jobs from mommy and daddy and their parents' friends. His cult has worked the same job their entire life, don't actually work and collect worker's comp, or don't need a resume for the type of job they have.
Not really impressive.
My dad can eat more garbage than your dad.
I think the only reasonable response to that quote would be: “Weird flex but ok…”
Yeah we can see that.
Don Jr really can't stop saying the dumbest things and making himself or whoever he's talking about look worse in the process. I'd say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I honestly think he's actually even less aware than his dad.
Not the flex he thought that was lol
I think we should just forget talking about Turnip and just talk about Kamala Harris instead.
Did you know her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958.
That's an uplifting fact. Tell me more!
As the San Francisco district attorney and the attorney general of California, Harris was the first woman, the first African American, and the first Asian American to hold each office.
More, more!
Born in Oakland, California on October 20, 1964, the eldest of two children born to Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from India, and Donald Harris, an economist from Jamaica.
Not just any economist, one very highly regarded in his field. He's also made no secret of his being a Marxist and I'm amazed they haven't been making more hay out of that.
On the other hand, Jamaica has been getting better and better economically because of his ideas, so maybe they shouldn't.
They have been trying to make a big deal about this.
I don't even think dude was a "marxist". He just studied/researched marxism like any reasonable economist.
I don't want to pay to read his entire paper, but from the preview page, it looks like he was at least sympathetic to Marx's ideas.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1830564
Fuck yeah, FlyingSquid! Jam your knowledge into my brain hole!
Most people who have suffered oppression choose not to become the oppressor.
How would that apply to Trump? Never once oppressed, yet wants to be "Day-1 dictator". Is it just people who have had privileged upbringings that grow up to become fascists? It does kinda seem that way the more i think about it...
Israel
It doesn’t matter, they’re voting for him anyway. The idea is to boost Kamala enough that planned nonvoters, vote.
That’s all. That’s the point of the campaigning. One more shitty Trump thing on the shitpile of shitty things that have accumulated in 8yrs won’t change anything.
What changes is convincing non voters to vote Kamala. And that happens by talking about Kamala, not Trump.
It really comes down to what bubble they happen to be a part of.
Reality vs Bullshit Mountain?
Reality vs the alternative reality of Cluster B narcissistic personality disorder. In other words, the reality of an untreated mental illness being grossly manipulated by those around him so they can claim power.
I don't think Trump could pass McDonald's background check, being a convicted felon
He couldn't make it through orientation with his shit attention span.
Or his shit diaper.
Is it unclear though? I think we all know the answer to that.
He looks so fucking tired.
It's not even a real job or even a shift, it's a photo op and he looks like he's about to collapse in all those photos.
"Don't you think he looks tired?"
Jesus Christ.
https://officialtrumpvance.com/products/mcdonalds-trump-vance-im-lovin-it-hat
I bet that's unauthorized use of trademark and McDs is gonna love it! 😂
Until I see otherwise, it's 100% authorized.
I uninstalled the McDonald's app last November(?) when they tried to make me accept their bullshit binding arbitration T&Cs.
Saving money, feeling better, not supporting fascism.
Yup. Looks like I'm done getting coffee there
McCoffee? Why on earth in the first place?
It's cheap and not bad
Word, gotta get the caffeine. Most coffee shops are too expensive anymore... hope you find a good replacement!
You know he didn't get authorizations. Sucker bet.
McGrift
Honest question - how are they able to use McDonald's M as well as the slogan? Couldn't the burger company sue? (I know it's Trompie, and he won't pay up or care if sued, but still.)
They can absolutely sue. That is a trademark violation.
FWIW I think that's not actually official trump/vance website, I think someone else snatched up the domain.
In their yard signs section is "Veterans Against Trump" - but they sure do have a lot of Trump/McDonald's stuff for sale.
https://officialtrumpvance.com/products/veterans-against-trump-yard-sign
Might just be scamming the scammers. I think there's a lot us that kind of wish we had the time and energy to do that.
Could be. If I had the time and could stomach the material, I'd love to be making hand over fist cash from these dumbasses selling them Trump merch.
I had you blocked for some reason - just saw there was a comment here that I couldn't expand and eventually figured it out.
Not sure why I had you blocked, but I've got my eye on you. ;)
"My culture is not your costume"
Looking at the health inspection report, they did indeed have lots of culture
Hairnet???????? And cover that glorious hairstyle that inspires all to be their best selves ??? Gloves???? And cover those giant masculine man hands that inspires all to be the work they want to see in the world???? Blasphemy!!!!!!
I can't get over the idea of working a fryer while wearing a shirt with cufflinks.
I wouldn't want that guys fingers near my food either
He's the kind of asshole who definitely wouldn't care about spreading sickness
Hopefully it turns out to backfire the way this photo op flopped in wisconsin
People lost their houses over this shit 😑
yep and that was before they disclosed anything
Good that the media has something else to focus on besides his flaming fascistic rhetoric... This is much more important.
That’s the whole point of publicity stunts.
And then today McDonald's had an e coli outbreak. Trump forgot to change his depends that day.
I hope they made sure he had a fresh diaper before that stunt.
When I worked at McDonald’s pretty much everyone wore hats but I will admit I didn’t always wash hands in between gloves with how dry it often made them. I will say that from the article that hat the guy is wearing is a genuine joke and he definitely should be covering that inch long beard
Good for the workers.
It's a good thing that we are focusing on this and that the fact that he says he'll skull fuck Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff if he gets in office (or whatever).
I've worked in MacDonald and this one is bullshit. Every time you use the grill you handle raw, frozen, patties with the glove. Of you were you wash the hands every time your skin would fall of after one day.
Also, the point of the glove is to not contaminate the hand. What's the need for washing between uses?
you might touch the outside of the glove with your hand while don/doffing it, so the washing between glove changes is to prevent cross contamination.
Or, if the gloves break.
Every round of the grill (8 patties) there's a glove put and removed. Nobody is washing the hands.
If it breaks sure, but that is an entirely different topic.
Nobody believes that trump is capable of working a shift at mcdonalds. This was just a reaction to Kamala mentioning mcdonalds once, and trump the dancing monkey leaps at the bait like a fool. She is playing him like a cheap fiddle.
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Thing is, wearing gloves in the first place is part of the issue, it gives a false sense of cleanliness and makes people not wash their hands as often as they should.
Edit: Downvote all you want, I've got my training in hygiene and sanitary practices in a kitchen environment, you wear gloves, you don't feel that your hands are dirty, you don't clean them as often. Gloves should be worn when you hurt your hands, that's it.
Used to work in fast food.
What you’re supposed to do is wash hands, new gloves, and when you need to change your gloves again (they even have a handy little poster that reminds you when!), you wash hands, put new gloves on.
It’s.. really not that hard?
Posters are pretty much useless if you don't feel that your hands are dirty
My training is the one you get to work in a kitchen environment like a hospital.
Isn’t that why you have training, and a manager to ensure proper steps are being taken?
My manager took her job seriously, and if she came around and noticed you:
A) weren’t wearing gloves B) weren’t keeping to the guidelines by changing gloves at the allotted time C) ESPECIALLY not washing your hands
You’d get a verbal warning, write up for subsequent violations, and then fired for not being able to properly follow these simple guidelines.
I don’t want your bare hands touching my food. Period.
A hospital should be even more strict about these simple guidelines. Seeing you so vehemently against something as simple as gloves on top of washing your hands, makes me so glad I cook at home. Keep on, I guess. Who cares anymore, am I right?
I don't understand how you don't get it...
Gloves aren't a sign of cleanliness or hygiene and people using their clean hands is much better than people wearing gloves and not cleaning often enough because they don't realize their gloves are dirty. It's that simple. It's even you see cooks wearing gloves that you should be worried.
See, from the get go that makes zero sense! Cleaning isn't based on time, it's based on what you manipulated!
I don't understand why you are having such a hard time grasping such a simple thing as guidelines.
A guideline, in this case, is something to follow, which all employees should do, to prevent any unnecessary contamination. Gloves are an extra precaution, on top of washing your hands properly, that minimizes the risk of contaminating the very food that someone else is going to be putting into their body.
Gloves in a FOOD environment, alongside hair nets, are just a no brainer for someone that will be serving food to another human being. On the daily, I see motherfuckers who can't even be bothered to wash their hands after using the restroom, and you expect me to see someone cooking food without gloves on, and continue to eat that shit???
The allotted time is for when you haven't gotten your gloves dirty, or at the very least not contaminated with other food stuffs. That means that if you get your gloves covered in the food you are prepping, you go and wash your hands and put on a new pair of gloves. Simple as hell, and promotes a healthy cooking environment. There are literally no downsides, just the ones you make up in your head.
Guidelines vary depending on where you live, around here is no gloves and there's a very good justification for it.
I provided you a lot of reasons why gloves should be worn, and all you can say is this. Poor way to justify your shitty practices. Keep on serving your contaminated food then, you improperly trained fool.
No, all you do is repeat that you still need to clean your hands and need to change your gloves, the difference is that without gloves you can feel it if you're hands are dirty so you actually clean them more often, you don't need something in your face to remind you that "hey, you've got gloves on, you don't realize your hands are dirty, wash them!"
I really hope you're not still in a kitchen.
I feel so bad for those hospital patients, and the staff, that have to eat whatever germ ridden food this person is handling.
Oh, sorry for respecting governmental guidelines backed up by science
I don't understand this obsession with gloves. When I worked at McDonald's, we didn't wear gloves. Do you wear gloves when you cook at home? Of course not. Just wash your hands.
I uhh... I do sometimes wear gloves when cooking at home. Mainly for handling raw meat (especially mixing ground beef and such; helps keep it from getting underneath my nails). I'm still washing my hands after taking the gloves off, but they're much easier to wash when they're not coated in fat and raw meat juices
I don't HAVE to wear gloves while at home (unless touching meat), because I know I'M the one washing my hands.
There are so many people in this world that refuse to wash their hands after using the restroom, and you want them to touch your food bare handed??? These same people that might have pulled their phone out to reply or scroll on it for a minute? The same phone that is probably chock full of germs...?
At least with gloves (especially those that put the gloves on before they prep your food), and proper management, you can at LEAST assume some sort of cleanliness.
Yeah so the unhygienic people scratch their arse with their gloves on. Now what?
The same exact thing can be said for your bare handed argument.
It's called TRAINING. It's something that happens before you get hired on, while you're being trained on food prep, and is plastered over the walls of any decent food joint not run by a moron. For fools who don't follow the guide, as I mentioned above, you get a verbal warning, leading up to getting fired, for not following something so simple. That's where a manager comes in, which is supposed to be part of their job, to ensure these guidelines are being followed.
If you're still confused, here is a similar poster that was plastered onto the walls of the fast food joint I worked at as a teenager (and had no issues following them, unlike some adults here.....) to which I then became a manager and had to enforce them like they were on me.
Exactly, so you agree it's the same whether you have gloves on or not? It's all about being hygienic and following the rules
I understand reading can be hard, but try again. You've lost the plot.
Yep totally lost the plot. You're right it's impossible to cook safely without latex gloves on 🙄
To expand in that. If someone wears gloves and touches e.g. raw chicken and then something else it'll contaminate it and anything they'll touch afterwards.
People asking for gloves are usually misguided. As said, due to gloves they'll not charge gloves or wash when needed. And that's pretty often.
Strangely there's some huge craziness where there's loads of comments that ask for gloves and think it'll improve hygiene. While to me gloves indicate a poor hygiene understanding.
You wear different gloves so there is no cross contamination.
This is cope.
The stunt worked. He got a bump.
He's in the lead now.
Your answer is shaming people who oppose genocide.
Are you a bot? What a garbled mess of a comment.
Are YOU a bot? You literally did the Westworld meme.
Trump opposes genocide? Dang, I guess when he said to "finish the problem" in relation to Israel's invasion of Gaza, released a plan for the Middle East that included giving Israel sovereignty over their illegal West Bank settlements that were the result of their ongoing campaign against the Palestinian people, and told Netanyahu to "Get your victory and get it over with," while also denouncing calls for a ceasefire, then saying "I will give Israel the support that it needs to win but I do want them to win fast," he was just joking around.
What a horrible person saying he would do what you're doing
I'm saying Israel should be given the right to Palestinian land, and that we should support Israel in their genocide of innocent human beings while denouncing attempts to get a ceasefire? Wow, that's news to me.
I believe there should be an immediate ceasefire, the return of all land taken from Palestinians to Palestinians, and significant monetary reparations paid to the Palestinian people to cover the cost of rebuilding the society Israel bombed into rubble. I believe Netanyahu should be charged for his crimes.
If anything I actually say and do lines up in any way with what you think Trump has said he'd do, I'd be quite surprised.
You won't be surprised, you'll just continue being dishonest.
You'll say everything you just said to me right now, then you'll turn around and vote for the people actively committing genocide.
You're a nazi. Everything you said is a lie.
Actually you're worse than a nazi. They voted for Hitler before he committed a genocide, not during.
In a system where my vote categorically will not positively influence society if it is used to vote outside of the duopoly, I have two choices, the blatantly fascist candidate that is substantially more akin to Hitler than any Democrat, or the somewhat more mild Democrat.
If I vote for a third party, my vote will only give the fascist a higher chance of gaining power than he otherwise would.
If I vote for Kamala, at least there's a lesser chance of the fascist winning. That's a start, and I can then continue advocating for the Democratic party engaging in better actions going forward, engage in direct political action, and do what I can to push the overton window to the left, hopefully making it harder for fascists to get into power in the future.
I do not enjoy this system, but it is the one I live in. I can either vote for Trump, or Kamala. Any other choice simply removes any meaningful effect my vote would have had.
So, what do you suggest I do? I'm serious. Do you think I should have voted for Trump instead?
You're voting for a fascist with different aesthetics. You will never find me telling you how to vote one way or another though. Use your energy organizing. If you happen to be one of the 18% of the population who even gets to decide if they want to play along with this bullshit, spend as little time as possible thinking about it or doing it.
Although if you decide to vote for either of the major candidates this time you're giving material support to a genocide so it's no exaggeration to call you a nazi. Fuck you.
Democrats, so far, have not shown to me that they are fascist in any meaningful way. They actively engage in messaging and political action that abhors the idea of a natural social hierarchy, have still worked to uphold general democratic ideals, and are still liberal. (among much else) That alone doesn't meet what most people would consider fascist. They're simply just not very good, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them fascists. not yet, at least. If they continue going further along that path, I will always reconsider based on the best evidence I have available.
If the only two options on the ballot are genocide, and even worse genocide, and not picking just increases the chances of the even worse genocide happening, I'll pick the option that does less genocide any day. I am not choosing to support a genocide, I am choosing between two possible genocides, of which one will inevitably be chosen regardless of my input. I have no choice in whether it will happen, only how badly it will.
I am a utilitarian. When given a limited set of options, if one will reduce the overall harm caused, I'll pick the one that does the least harm. If I must pick between someone killing 5 people, and someone killing 10, I will pick the one who kills 5. (assuming I have no way to prevent either option in the first place)
This election will happen. One of these candidates will be chosen. It is the same dilemma, a choice where a result will occur, but to what degree it affects the world is something I can influence.
Knowing Trump's past policy and rhetoric, and comparing it to that of Kamala, and the Democratic party more broadly, it's extraordinarily easy to tell that Trump will cause more overall harm to the world, not just in the case of the Palestinian people, but of all people across the globe. As long as the opposing party will do less harm, that is who I will vote for in order to reduce his chances of winning. Not necessarily because I support every policy they have, but because I know they will produce the least harm comparatively.
I can do that and vote according to my utilitarian ideals at the same time. These are not mutually exclusive.
Get me a definition of Nazi-ism and explain how it ties into my rhetoric thus far.
Literally doing the meme
It's amazing that your brain doesn't kick on at any point let alone this one
And you have the fucking gall to ask me to define a nazi afterwards
Good job not answering the question. You can't just use "nazi" as a buzzword to make your ideological opponents sound worse.
Being forced to vote for the lesser of two evils to reduce overall harm is not the same as actively choosing to vote for the demonstrably more fascist party. If anyone would be closer to Hitler in this election, it would be Trump. If there are only two choices, I will vote for the one that's less like Hitler to stop the one that's more like Hitler from getting into power.
The thing is, I don't really care what argument you're trying to make, because everything you're saying is totally unproductive. Regardless of whatever point you're trying to make, you're trying to convince me. What should I do as a result of your argument?
You're arguing that me voting for Kamala is wrong. Cool, what else should I have done? This entire argument is you trying to convince me, so what are you trying to convince me of?
I'm not and you're being extremely childish and stupid acting like this point hasn't already been over. You're a fucking nazi because you materially support genocide. That's it. And as I've already said, calling you a fucking nazi should be a compliment because unlike them you're voting DURING the holocaust, not in ignorance of its future.
Your moral indignation is as worthless as your morals are, fucking nazi.
Wooooooowwww no shiiiiiiit
And yet you're still raging at me demanding I perform discourse for you despite that. Fucking piece of shit narcissist nazi. Amazing coincidence that you feel so comfortable flaunting your pathological self importance in this conversation and have zero value of human life for people outside of yourself in politics. A fucking piece of shit nazi to the bone.
Whether I vote in this election or not, the genocide will continue. Whether only one person votes for either party and every other American abstains, or whether every American votes, the genocide will continue. I am not materially supporting the genocide, I am only trying to reduce the maximum amount of people who will inevitably be slaughtered.
Your entire argument is based around ignorance of the fact that this genocide will inevitably happen no matter who I vote for, but that there will likely be a substantially worse outcome if Trump is elected.
I can see you have no actual point to make, and just enjoy calling other people nazis. Again, good job not answering the actual question. In case you missed it: "You’re arguing that me voting for Kamala is wrong. Cool, what else should I have done? This entire argument is you trying to convince me, so what are you trying to convince me of?"
If you can't provide an answer to this extremely basic question that directly calls into question your very motive for this conversation, then I have nothing else to say to you.
Trump opposes genocide?