Want lies with that?: The right is still loving Trump's McDonald's stunt

Days after Donald Trump staged a photo op by pretending to work a shift at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania, the right continues to tout the event as a major campaign moment.

The Trump campaign shut down the restaurant for regular customers and arranged for Trump to hand out food to supporters who had been pre-screened by the Secret Service. Almost immediately the Republican Party began selling merchandise labeled “MAGADonald’s.”

As he visited North Carolina on Monday, ostensibly to tour the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene (and not a weather weapon as many of his supporters have claimed), the McDonald’s celebration continued. Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina—with the debris of destroyed homes in the background—handed Trump a “French fry certification pin.”