Perhaps no stunt in the history of U.S. politics deserves more ridicule than the grotesquely embarrassing mummery Trump put on at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s today.
- Seth Abramson (bonus anti-theatricality points for use of the archaic term "mummery")
Donald Trump - a 78-year-old who’s spent his life screwing over workers, who's never earned a real paycheck in his life - was putting on a show today playing dress-up at McDonald’s to act like he’s one of us.
Kamala Harris doesn’t have to put on a show. She actually wore the uniform
- Shawn Fain, UAW
So the place wasn’t even open. It was all staged and fake. He didn’t work for real at a McDonalds. It was a staged fraud just like every other event.
- Ron Filipowski
The Trump McDonalds thing was choreographed and staged. The restaurant was closed down, covered in Secret Service, the people going through the drive through were handpicked, careful and intentional camera placement. All staged.
- source unknown
A reminder that the whole Trump McDonald's thing yesterday was fake. Just like him. Store was closed. "Customers" were Trump Cult Members. They had scripts. They had rehearsed. There is NOTHING Trump won't lie about.
- Keith Olberman
So in an effort to highlight his claim that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s, Trump pretended to work at a closed McDonald’s where he served pretend orders to supporters pretending to be customers
- New York magazine
If it weren’t fake it wouldn’t be authentically Trump
- Philip Gourevitch
Donald Trump, born on Easy Street, dreamed of more, insisted. And got it all. Palaces, women, minions, power, supreme fame. Everything...but real pride, or friendship, or love. And at 78 realizes he can’t quite distinguish between a dream and a nightmare…in the Twilight Zone
- Kurt Andersen
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Job performance versus the job of performance
Biden was been outstanding at the job of being President. Where he fell short was meeting the media's demands for the performative parts of the job, which they value exponentially more b/c they think it's all just a TV show and not real life
- Scarylawyerguy
Neologism of the month
"If you don’t like how things are going in Washington, he’s responsible for it. He’s introduced this type of angertainment where you just get people upset and then you podcast about it and write a book about it and make some money on it"
Colin Allred on Ted Cruz
Isn't this essentially a standard photo op common of politicians in the bustle of elections? Although I wonder if there is a subtext saying that native-born Americans should be filling such positions, rather than immigrants.
ReplyDeleteBy the by, I recently learnt that "illegal immigration" isn't actually a legally recognised concept. International law does not criminalise the entry into a country via irregular means. Otherwise, refugees fleeing a warzone may be breaking the law. The closest example of immigration that would be actually illegal is that of settled immigrants overstaying their visas (and isn't that the most common form of "illegal" immigration anyway"?).
Nothing has disgusted me more in recent times than the demonisation of immigration. And I fear that my defending of immigration here will lead to a spraying of racist shit in my (an your) direction. Sorry about that.