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[–] [email protected] 219 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Bonus:

https://www.newsx.com/world/health-violations-at-mcdonalds-location-that-hosted-trump-what-happened/

"Notably, Trump did not wear a hairnet or gloves while serving food, claiming that “my hands are clean already.” This assertion stands in stark contrast to health standards that require food handlers to maintain strict hygiene protocols.

In fact, the McDonald’s location Trump visited has a recent history of health code violations, having failed its last health inspection from Bucks County. The report cited multiple infractions related to employee hygiene, particularly the lack of proper handwashing practices, which are essential for minimizing the risk of foodborne illness."

[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love how he mocked Harris saying she never worked there or whatever and then does a publicity stunt but can’t even follow the most basic rules of the job. Someone actually working that position would be terminated for health code violation.

[–] Mouselemming 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or maybe they wouldn't, given the history of infractions at that location.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t one excuse he gives for eating at McDonalds is because he knows he won’t be poisoned? Like when he was in the White House, with a fancy ass kitchen staff full of top chefs he’d still rather get McDonald’s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Its 100% this, altho I can't tell if he's more worried about the Russians or some rando he fucked over previously.

The funny thing about Mar-a-Lago is how grounded and accessible it is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I would trust White House staff before I would trust McDonald's staff. I'm sure whatever McDonald's they were ordering from was having their employees vetted anyway.

To think of it if a person was really into McDonald's that deeply they could just send fresh ingredients every week.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"my hands are clean already"

As someone who ran a restaurant kitchen for 5 years, this is called a lack of standards. Oh I forgot gloves? Meh. That's a slippery slide that shows you don't actually care or have standards, and you throw rules by the side when it suits you. That a sign of a shit worker.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't wait until they're on the news next year because they were shut down because every business Trump touches turns to shit. Like the King Midas of poop. King Poodass.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

King mierdas. Mierda is spanish for shit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like we have photographic evidence of more health code violations. Who do we contact?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The restaurant is closed, so as long as they claim they threw away everything he touched they should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

The health inspector has declared anything that is an official act no longer violates the laws of microbiology.

[–] ColeSloth 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm kind of a germaphobe and am big on washing hands, but if I were a mcdonalds employee, there's just no way I'd have gloves on to put out the hamburger patties then take the gloves off, and wash my hands, then put another set of gloves on to do other food prep stuff.

I'm not washing my hands between every glove swap. You don and doff your gloves correctly there's no reason to.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago

"We are not a political organization."

Well even if I believed you, which I don't, you will be now. Good job dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Small business???? Bitch you own a fucking McDonald's get the fuck out of here

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

They technically qualify. All the franchises do. Yes it's cursed. Especially when it's time to hand out SBA funds. Remember the pandemic? All the small business money got sucked up by franchises and large money cap/small employee number businesses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Poor guy probably got a small million dollar loan for his small McDonalds business!

We all know how much McDonald Trump cares about small businesses…

Also there is this… https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-donald-trump-worked-failed-last-health-inspection-1971998

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Of course they closed the McD for that occasion. DT is not qualified or certified to work with food. Imagine he undercooks something or f-cks up cleaning the salad properly and people fall ill. Of he could have spread some germs, as we don't know what prevents him from publishing his medical record.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plus he's a convicted felon so probably not eligible for employment at a McDonalds.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If felons weren't allowed in food service we'd all be going hungry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Some felons are working during their incarceration. Not by choice either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

They probably also had to sanitize everything and throw out any food his diaper touching hands have touched

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does McDonald's corporate feel about their franchisees using McDonald's for political stunts?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"we proudly open our doors to everyone".. when they're officially 'closed'?

Knock knock knock, knock knock knock...

Donnie McRonnie, don't feed me a line of shit, I ain't sniffing it. Fuck McDonald's.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lmao this owner is so demented he thinks McDonalds is a "small business". You're a franchisee, not a small business. Enjoy making french fries for nobody.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

At first I found it baffling that the Trump Campaign would go along with Donald’s McStupid idea for a photo op because anyone not experiencing significant cognitive decline would be able to see that it’d put a lot of unwanted attention back on the fact that Donald Trump has never worked a day in his life. But after some thought, I suppose it did succeed in getting people to stop talking about his dementia induced DJ set for an afternoon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I now ask the Internet for an animated gif of him dancing by himself at McDonalds.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably for the best, honestly. You don't want diaper leakage, Adderall, or malignant narcissism getting into people's food.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago
[–] lemon 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Signed on paper that says "DG Empire"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You know you're reading a quality publication when they use an exclamation mark at least once per paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I'm still struggling to see what point he was trying to make.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Open our doors to everyone” that’s why we are closing them for you!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Ok it shouldn’t be a big deal, but I’ve found that you can tell a lot by a signature.

This guys signature looks like a 7th graders.

Edit: wow I just noticed the “DG Empire” on the sticker. Emperor Axe Body Spray over here

Why is that important? I mean it’s not really, I’ll fully admit I’m being petty. But I’ve found that people that write like they’ve just learned cursive do so because they seldom write things. Now this observation is likely less true today than it was in the Jurassic period when I grew up and had to write out schoolwork, but given that this guy owns a McDonald’s franchise I’m gonna guess he had to handwrite schoolwork too.

There is just something visceral about this signature, it’s a sloppy and bad version of textbook cursive. One of the things that happens when people write a lot is that they develop their own handwriting style.

Anyways, the sentiment in this letter and the stupid stunt are enough to hate, but this signature is just awful 1 / 10 please try harder.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how it happened, but over the years, my signature developed from '7th grade cursive' to 'squiggle that vaguely starts with my first initial in cursive.'

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile my signature is lying through it's teeth, while claiming I must have multiple PhDs to have the signature I have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I always hated how I was taught to write the capital letters in my name and then I was sitting in civics class and looking at the Declaration of Independence and stole big parts of my current signature from our founding fathers.

They knew how to write their names with style.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

But I thought he was gonna do "all the jobs" ??? /s

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