Fashion
French Cuffs and French Fries at Donald Trump’s McDonald’s Gig
No hairnet in sight as the former president doled out meals at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
On Sunday afternoon, former President Donald J. Trump traded his blue sport coat for a yellow-trimmed apron.
At a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, he manned the fry line and dispensed orders to supporters in the drive-through lane. His ketchup red tie stayed put. He did not wear a hairnet.
“I could do this all day,” said Mr. Trump. “I love McDonald’s, I love jobs, I love to see good jobs.”
He may love jobs, but he doesn’t have much experience with jobs like this. Nor was he really dressed the part.
Beyond the apron, Mr. Trump was apparently insulated from the rest of the uniform modeled by his brief burger-flipping compatriots. He didn’t change into the pedestrian dark shirt and slip-resistant shoes like the rest of the McDonald’s staff. Mr. Trump didn’t plop on a McDonald’s branded visor. Certainly, he was the only “employee” at the franchise on Sunday to be packing orders in a shirt with French cuffs.
On Sunday, the visual differences between Mr. Trump and the franchise’s employees mostly served to underscore the obvious: that the former president, saltshaker skills or no, exists in a vastly different class of someone working a service job to get by. Mr. Trump, who once claimed his net worth to be $9 billion, wears suits from Italy’s Brioni, which can run as much as $14,000. It would take a fast-food employee in Pennsylvania working at the state’s $7.25 minimum wage over 1,900 hours to make that much money — and that’s not accounting for taxes.
