‘It’s a joke’: UAW president slams Trump’s ‘charade’ campaign stunt as ‘playing dress up’ 

The president of the United Auto Workers slammed former President Donald Trump’s visit to a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, calling it a “joke” on CNN and saying Trump was simply playing “dress-up.”

Trump visited the fast food chain in suburban Philadelphia on Sunday, working the fry station of the McDonald’s, which was closed to the public during his visit. During the roughly 30-minute event, he took questions from customers through the drive-through window.

But Shawn Fain, head of the UAW, wasn’t impressed, telling CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, “I think it’s a joke and I think most voters see it that way.”

“Let’s be real,” he said. “Donald Trump wants to play pretend and put on a show and play dress up and act like he understands what working-class people go through, what fast food workers go through.”

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The reality, he noted, is the eatery was closed to the public.

“It was franchisees and campaign supporters that were screened and allowed to be customers,” said Fain.

He added: “This is not the life of a McDonald’s worker,” noting they work at a furious pace to clear people through the line and make the company money, all at “poverty wages.”

“To me, it’s a slam and it’s an insult to people that have to do that work every day that are trying to pay the bills at the end of the week and that’s their biggest fear is getting their bills paid,” said Fain. “Trump doesn’t understand that. So I think that whole charade was a joke.”

On the contrary, he said, Vice President Kamala Harris knows what it’s like to struggle, said Fain.

“Really to me [that’s] one of the distinct differences between these two candidates,” he said.

Watch the clip below or at this link.