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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Sane people should boycott the "DG Empire" McDonald's. "Empire," WTF!

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 69 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours 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.

[–] donescobar@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago

Read the sticker, he doesn’t own a franchise he owns the “DG Empire” what a dork

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 36 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago
[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 53 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours 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.'

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 4 points 11 hours ago

Yes, I think that’s part of it, I shouldn’t be able to read every letter in your signature. I don’t trust that :D

There’s a reason there’s a print line under the signature line, your signature should be some vague squiggle.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours 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.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, but they wrote F when they meant S back then.

Congreff? What's congreff?

^(I^ ^know^ ^it's^ ^a^ ^long^ ^s)^

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Strangely enough, while my cursive is absolute dog shite with a ballpoint pen, if I break out my fountain pen, that exact script is what starts coming out. Looks like I'm practicing to rewrite the Declaration of Independence and Constitution in a single sitting.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 208 points 1 day ago (10 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."

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 32 points 23 hours 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

This is called "someone who doesn't wash when they go to the bathroom because they say their hands are clean already." That's what this is called.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day 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@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (4 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.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day 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.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

King mierdas. Mierda is spanish for shit.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 87 points 1 day ago

"We are not a political organization."

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

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day 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.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 6 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago

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

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[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Well you don't want food service workers wearing gloves for the most part. Nonsterile gloves protect the wearer much more than anything they're touching and food should be the opposite of chemically unsafe to touch. Gloves can also undermine a focus on or even specifically discourage regular handwashing which is what actually keeps food and food prep equipment clean / sanitary. Unless you have cuts, sores, warts or some other infection on your hands, gloves are the least helpful solution to keeping food sanitary.

That said, I doubt he washes his hands adequately and the whole hairnet thing is gross AF, especially with that glued-on dead animal he calls hair.

I just get feisty about the gloves thing because I remember during the pandemic when my hospital was struggling to keep gloves in stock for us to handle blood and bodily fluids with, and one day in an urgent care I saw a patient in the waiting room wearing gloves reach up and run his gloved hands through his hair. I almost just screamed at him. They're not magic clean hand socks you have to use them properly and in the right situations.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I went to subway recently (and briefly) and the employee sneezed into their gloved hand before starting my sandwich. Literally no glove change, just grabbed the bread and kept going.

I said never mind and left.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Hey, they didn't say when they proudly opened their doors to everyone. Apparently it's not "normal working hours."

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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't know, he has a real 'lost Alzheimer's sufferer' look on him in the photos I've seen.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago
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