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President Trump putting in his shift at a Philadelphia McDonald’s was a brilliant stroke. It served so many purposes at one time. I’m sure I’m overlooking a few, but a few themes that occur to me are: Pennsylvania, the billionaire businessman who is a man of the people, and Kamala’s inauthenticity.

The Washington Free Beacon originally dug into Harris’s “I did fries” story in an investigative piece by reporters Joe Simonson, Chuck Ross, and Andrew Kerr.

The Free Beacon treated the story like the New York Times would if the Times were an honest broker of news rather than a partisan rag. In its daily newsletter this morning the Free Beacon proudly takes up the Times’s treatment of the underlying theme of Trump’s appearance:

Former president Donald Trump dished out fries at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s on Sunday afternoon. His made-for-TV appearance—the Donald waved to onlookers from a drive-thru window—was downstream of a Washington Free Beacon report published in late August that raised questions about Harris’s claim to have toiled under the Golden Arches.

“Now I have worked at McDonald’s. I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala, she never worked here,” Trump told reporters on Sunday, according to our Joseph Simonson, who was tagging along with the former president.

The New York Times is up with a report about Trump’s campaign stop, too. To describe it as North Korean would not be hyperbolic.

The paper labels Trump’s…claims about Harris’s alleged McDonald’s gig the new birtherism. “Lacking a shred of proof, he has charged that she never actually worked under the golden arches — recalling his earlier false claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Mr. Trump’s latest allegation also appears to be false,” reporters Heather Knight and Nicholas Nehamas write.

Left out of the Times story is the fact that the Harris campaign’s claims about Harris’s job have shifted—first, they said she worked at McDonald’s to put herself through school. Then, aides were forced to concede she worked there for a summer “to earn a bit more spending money.” The piece makes no mention of the fact that, as the Free Beacon reported, one of Harris’s biographers was unaware of the job.

“Burgerism” is the new “birtherism.”

This is priceless.

As is this.

I’m filing this under Laughter Is the Best Medicine.

As a postscript, let us add the internal McDonald’s statement. McDonald’s would like it to be known that it is a non-partisan organization. According to McDonald’s, one in eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s at some point in their lives. The company based this statistic on a survey of American adults, in which 14% of people said they had worked or currently work for the chain. It must be the most important job training organization in the United States.