Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed former President Trump for his current go to to a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, suggesting the picture op was simply an try at “connecting” with voters.
“You’ve got Donald Trump putting on a little McDonald’s costume because he thinks that’s what people do,” Ocasio-Cortez informed a crowd of individuals Monday throughout an occasion with the United Auto Staff (UAW).
“They’re not trying to empathize with us. They are making fun of us,” she added. “Donald Trump thinks that people who work at McDonald’s are a joke.”
Her remarks come after Trump visited the fast-food chain in Bucks County, Pa., on Sunday, donning an apron and dealing the drive via and fry station.
The New York Democrat additionally knocked tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk for pledging to offer away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political motion committee’s petition backing the First Modification, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Modification, with its proper “to keep and bear arms.”
“We see Elon Musk coming in here. He’s doing these little contests where he’s promising people a million dollars in some kind of lottery giveaway if they sign up for his list,” she stated, “You have a billionaire just dangling a million bucks to those of us and many of us who are struggling to make ends meet if they dance for him.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that Musk “thinks that dangling money in front of a working person is a cute thing to do.”
She continued in her enchantment to working class voters, arguing that Trump and Musk “have no idea what our lives are like.”
“They think this callousness is a way of connecting,” she stated on the UAW occasion. “It’s not a way of connecting, because you and I both know that when that camera turns on and they turn around and go into their car, they’re laughing at us, they think we are the suckers.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, additionally accused the previous president of disrespecting McDonald’s employees throughout the marketing campaign cease — which was largely seen as an assault on Vice President Harris, who has described her time working on the restaurant throughout school.
The Trump marketing campaign has sought to capitalize on the go to, promoting T-shirts with a photograph of the previous president working within the drive via.
McDonald’s, within the wake of the occasion, emphasised its political neutrality.
The Hill has contacted the Trump marketing campaign and Tesla for Elon Musk for remark.
