Did McDonald’s just confirm that Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants?! Take a look at the viral claims, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : McDonald’s confirms Kamala Harris never worked there!
Former President Donald Trump has claimed that McDonald’s has confirmed that Vice President Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants!
Donald Trump at Feasterville-Trevose McDonald’s:
I think it’s inappropriate when somebody puts down all over the place that she worked at McDonald’s. It was a big part of her resume [that] she worked at McDonald’s, how tough the job it was.
She specifically worked at the French fryer, would have made the French fries. She talked about the heat, it was so tough.
She never worked at McDonald’s. McDonald’s just confirmed that again, by the way. She never worked at McDonald’s. In other words, she’s Lyin’ Kamala.
Donald Trump on Truth Social: We have checked with McDonald’s, and they say, definitively, that there is no record of Lyin’ Kamala Harris ever having worked there. In other words, she never worked there, and has lied about this “job” for years.
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Truth : McDonald’s did not confirm Kamala Harris never worked there!
This appears to be an example of fake news about Kamala Harris, and here are the reasons why…
Donald Trump never provided any evidence
Despite claiming that McDonald’s has confirmed that Kamala Harris never worked at any of its restaurants, former President Donald Trump has not provided any evidence.
He has, so far, only repeated those claims, without offering any evidence, like a statement from McDonald’s, for example.
McDonald’s said it did not have all job records for the early ’80s
After Donald Trump held a photo op session and press conference at the Feasterville-Trevose McDonald’s outlet on 20 October 2024, McDonald’s USA issued an internal statement to clarify that it was non-partisan, and made a similar offer to the Harris-Walz campaign.
McDonald’s USA also clarified that it no longer has records for all jobs dating back to the 1980s.
Though we are not a political brand, we’ve been proud to hear former President Trump’s love for McDonald’s and Vice President Harris’s fond memories working under the Arches. While we and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early ’80s, what makes “1 in 8” so powerful is the shared experience so many Americans have had.
While some people claim that this is “evidence” that Kamala Harris did not work at McDonald’s, that’s not true. It only confirmed that it is highly unlikely for any corporation or franchisee to still have job records going back 40+ years!
To be clear – McDonald’s never said whether Kamala Harris worked for any of its restaurants or not. It only stated that it (and its franchisees) simply do not have all the records going back to the early 1980s, and thus cannot confirm the story one way or another.
McDonald’s also took pain to refer to “1 in 8” – that 1-in-8 Americans have worked at McDonald’s at some point in their lifetime. In other words – it is plausible Kamala Harris worked a summer job at McDonald’s like many other Americans.
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An old friend recalled Kamala Harris working at McDonald’s
While the Harris campaign did not make any of her friends or family members available for interviews about her work experience at McDonald’s, The New York Times independently confirmed that summer stint at the Golden Arches (archive) with a friend of Kamala Harris from her teenage years.
Wanda Kagan, a close friend of Ms. Harris’s when they attended high school together in Montreal, said she recalled Ms. Harris having worked at McDonald’s around that time.
Answering questions by email, Ms. Kagan said that Ms. Harris’s mother, who died in 2009, had told Ms. Kagan about the summer job years ago. Ms. Kagan said she herself had also worked at one of the fast-food chain’s many franchises in those years.
“That’s what us regular folks did,” Ms. Kagan wrote. Still, she indicated that it had not been a frequent topic of conversation for Ms. Harris. “We didn’t talk much about our McDonald’s days back then,” she said.
And why should it be a frequent topic of conversation? It was a low-paying job that many young people in North America did on their summers off. It was not like she snag an internship with a Senator or a Supreme Court justice!
But there you have it – confirmation from at least one friend from that period that Kamala Harris did work a summer job at McDonald’s.
It was not a big part of her resume
While Kamala Harris mentioned her stint at McDonald’s several times, she never put it on her resume as Donald Trump claimed.
In fact, many people specifically pointed out that Kamala Harris did not list her summer job at McDonald’s on her resume when she applied for the position of a law clerk in the Alameda County district attorney’s office in October 1987.
Of course, most people would not have listed a summer job four years earlier frying potatoes and working the cash register at McDonald’s in their resume for a job at the Alameda County district attorney’s office. But Trump supporters have made this resume a lynchpin of their claims that she never worked at McDonald’s.
Unfortunately, they have accidentally proven Donald Trump’s wrong that working at McDonald’s was a big part of Kamala Harris’ resume.
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This is just political fake news
Ultimately, this appears to be yet another example of political fake news surrounding the upcoming 2024 US Presidential election. Here are some other examples I fact checked recently:
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As the 2024 US Presidential election draws close, you can expect more of such fake news to appear, so be wary and skeptical!
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