How Media Outlets on the Left and Right Covered Trump’s Stop at McDonald’s

Former President Donald J. Trump worked the fryer at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Sunday — an unusual campaign stop that fueled an onslaught of coverage from media outlets across the political spectrum.

Mr. Trump, a longtime fan of the fast-food chain, used the stop to claim, without providing any evidence, that Vice President Kamala Harris had lied about working at McDonald’s as a college student.

Ms. Harris has stated that she worked at a McDonald’s in California after her freshman year of college. A friend of hers backed up her account in a recent interview with The New York Times.

Conservative outlets painted Mr. Trump’s visit to McDonald’s as a brilliant move for the former president and as disastrous for Ms. Harris, praising him for a masterful “troll” of her campaign. They said that it aided Mr. Trump’s continued outreach to working-class voters, and that it made him look more approachable than Ms. Harris.

While only a handful of anti-Trump outlets covered the event, those that did described it as a bizarre and cheap stunt. They poked fun at Mr. Trump, comparing him to the company’s Ronald McDonald clown mascot. Typifying the anti-Trump response, the Drudge Report website ran an all-caps headline: “One Fry Short of Happy Meal! Felon Finds Work,” on the site, referring to Mr. Trump’s felony conviction.

Here’s how a few outlets covered the news:

FROM THE RIGHT

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