Donald Trump showed up at a McDonald s and learned how to cook french fries for customers in the drive-thru. It was a funny stunt that sent the left into fits of rage. Today on the Matt W. W. Show, Matt talks about why this is a good thing.
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00:02:53.820If Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, which at this point seems probably more likely than not,
00:02:59.900then what happened yesterday at a McDonald's in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, will encapsulate why he won.
00:03:06.600Assuming there's a single honest history book in 20 years from now, this will be the moment that the authors used to illustrate the trajectory of the race in its final days.
00:03:16.100Now, on paper, it was basically just a, you know, classic photo op, the kind of thing that's been done thousands of times before.
00:03:22.680Donald Trump showed up at the McDonald's, mingled with the employees, learned how to cook fries, served some customers in the drive-thru, talked to reporters, and left.
00:03:32.880It certainly doesn't sound like the kind of thing that Trump's opponents should treat like a crisis or anything approaching a crisis.
00:03:38.660So it's notable that the Kamala Harris campaign, along with the press, are currently having a full-on meltdown over Trump's visit to McDonald's yesterday.
00:03:47.260And if you want to know why Donald Trump is probably going to win in November, you have to understand exactly why this is happening.
00:03:54.200You have to understand why they're so threatened by the fact that Trump served French fries for 15 minutes.
00:04:00.080Now, to give you some idea of what I'm talking about, here's the reaction from MSNBC, where they foamed at the mouth while simultaneously accusing Donald Trump of being crazy much.
00:04:12.620I mean, if you're on his campaign, and I know you are certainly not, I'm not making any implication of that, but what is the logic behind this, going to a McDonald's?
00:04:21.640I mean, we know the guy likes Big Macs and Filet-O-Fish, and he's used the word love to describe the way he feels about the food there before.
00:04:34.860He has not put forth an economic agenda.
00:04:38.200He, as you know, appears to be not well.
00:04:42.060And he's engaged in some really bizarre types of activities during this campaign.
00:04:48.500So this is just another one of those stunts that he will continue on through the campaign.
00:04:55.160And I think that we need to really focus on making sure that he is not elected, of course, because he is a threat to our democracy.
00:05:02.580But also, the Harris Law's agenda is about the economy, reducing the cost of living, reducing the cost of prescription drugs, reducing the cost of housing, and making life better for everyone.
00:05:14.800And that's what we have to focus on and make sure we get every voter to the polls and make sure that the voters vote for the future, not taking the country backwards, as you see what Donald Trump continues to try to do.
00:05:28.420So I'm urging and encouraging everyone to get to the polls and vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walsh to be their next president and vice president.
00:05:37.360Now, MSNBC claims that they have no idea why Donald Trump went to McDonald's.
00:05:42.460Maybe he likes Big Macs, they suggest.
00:05:45.140But probably he's just losing his mind.
00:05:48.320Now, of course, they know exactly why Donald Trump was there.
00:05:50.860On the stump, Kamala Harris, has repeatedly claimed that she worked at McDonald's in the 1980s.
00:05:56.960But the company says that it has no record of her employment, and Kamala's been unwilling to provide any evidence that she was employed by McDonald's.
00:06:05.600Additionally, the Washington Free Beacon found that neither of Harris's memoirs makes any mention of a job at McDonald's.
00:06:10.940The first time she publicly mentioned the job was decades after the fact at a political rally in 2019.
00:06:17.520The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris's October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
00:06:26.120On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs, including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage,
00:06:32.620in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years.
00:06:38.380Now, on top of that, when she speaks about the job, Kamala acts a bit like she does when she talks about the Glock that she allegedly owns.
00:06:53.800And Kamala's handlers have changed their mind on why she had the job, too.
00:06:57.960At one point, they said that it was to pay for college.
00:06:59.720At another point, they said that she worked at McDonald's to get some extra spending money.
00:07:03.780It all seems fake, because it probably is fake.
00:07:06.480Now, on one level, it's obviously very alarming that the Democrats have nominated a candidate who's so phony that she would lie about something like this.
00:07:14.820I mean, this is the first case of stolen McValor that we've ever seen in politics.
00:07:19.600It's gratuitous, because it's totally unnecessary.
00:07:22.640And even worse, she didn't even lie convincingly about it.
00:07:25.440At the same time, there's no denying that this is maybe the easiest target for mockery that you can possibly imagine.
00:07:32.000I mean, if SNL were still funny, they'd be doing nonstop skits about this.
00:07:36.480But SNL isn't really funny anymore, at least not regularly so.
00:07:39.460So that job has fallen to Donald Trump.
00:07:42.320And so he showed up to the McDonald's kitchen in Bucks County yesterday, worked for about 15 minutes,
00:07:48.100and declared that he's now worked at McDonald's longer than Kamala Harris worked there.
00:07:54.420This is an image here that's going to find its way into a lot of retrospectives on the 2024 presidential race.
00:08:23.440So there's a lot to discuss in that short clip.
00:08:28.520But one thing to notice is that Trump isn't even really being hostile here.
00:08:33.200He's not coming across as unhinged and unpleasant like the MSNBC panel.
00:08:38.060In fact, at one point, Trump told reporters in the drive-thru lane that he wished Kamala Harris a happy birthday, which was nice of him.
00:08:43.340He offered to send her some French fries and even flowers to mark the occasion.
00:08:46.960So this is some lighthearted mockery that happens to be extremely damaging for Kamala Harris from a political perspective.
00:08:55.940But a big part of the reason why it's so damaging is that nobody in the corporate press or the Kamala Harris campaign is capable of enduring mockery at their own expense.
00:09:04.200Instead, by going into hysterics over it, they're revealing that the Trump campaign is right.
00:09:09.240But they're highlighting the exact vulnerability that the Trump campaign wanted to highlight, which is that everything about Kamala Harris' image is artificial and inflexible.
00:09:18.740There's nothing genuine about her or her fake life story.
00:09:22.400And yesterday, in maybe the most effective way imaginable, Trump made that fact impossible to ignore.
00:09:27.880And that's why, one by one, every single mainstream outlet has published an article attacking Trump for the crime of cooking a batch of French fries.
00:09:36.240They went into a fully defensive posture, and they all use pretty much the same language.
00:09:41.660They all say that Trump is out of line for daring to suggest that maybe Kamala Harris didn't actually work at McDonald's.
00:10:01.380The visit came as Trump has tried to counter Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' accounts on the campaign of working at the fast food chain while in college.
00:10:08.480An experience that Trump has claimed, without offering evidence, never happened.
00:10:22.620Well, you're probably getting the picture at this point.
00:10:32.120The entirety of the corporate press, without exception, wants you to know that there's no evidence that Kamala Harris didn't work at McDonald's.
00:10:41.040So, in other words, Donald Trump has not proved a negative.
00:10:45.340He has to prove that she did not work there in the 80s.
00:10:49.100He has not provided, I guess, a detailed point-by-point explanation of exactly what Kamala Harris was doing at every moment during the 1980s.
00:10:57.640And therefore, he has no right to question her narrative, which is completely backwards, obviously.
00:11:03.600Kamala is the person who claimed that she worked at McDonald's.
00:11:06.980She made that claim without providing any evidence.
00:11:09.560And evidence that'd be easy to provide, by the way, if you worked somewhere, even at any point in your life,
00:11:15.960it wouldn't be that hard to provide some kind of documentation that you did.
00:12:28.680So that's the clip that's supposed to convince us that Trump is a bad guy because he wouldn't immediately say, yes, raise the minimum wage.
00:12:40.480Which, first of all, the fact that Trump, at 78 years old, was able to learn the ins and outs of cooking fries at McDonald's in about 15 minutes,
00:12:49.620isn't exactly a strong argument for raising the minimum wage.
00:12:54.320I mean, if anything, it's an argument for lowering it, but I don't see how it's an argument for raising it.
00:13:01.520Now, of course, there are plenty of other problems with that whole line of argument.
00:13:04.780When the state of California raised its minimum wage, thousands of fast food workers lost their jobs,
00:13:09.460and the price of fast food became more expensive across the board, which, you know, was always, that was always inevitable.
00:13:15.240Of course, it's going to, that's going to be the result.
00:13:17.380And that happened within just the last year.
00:13:21.060This is the pro-worker policy, according to the rapid response director of the Kamala Harris campaign.
00:13:27.640But that's not even the worst part of this.
00:13:29.320The worst part of this is that Kamala Harris's campaign is making snippy, dumb political arguments in response to a campaign event
00:13:38.680that was just objectively hilarious and effective.
00:13:42.440I mean, they did the same thing after the Al Smith dinner, and it looks terrible every time they do it.
00:13:48.660Everyone can see in these clips from McDonald's that the workers loved that Trump was there.
00:13:54.080He joked around with everyone, from the owner of the franchise to the rank-and-file employees,
00:13:58.560and they were all enjoying the experience.
00:14:01.860It's just not possible to spin this kind of footage to create the narrative that they want to create.
00:14:06.080You end up looking desperate and certainly humorless.
00:27:10.780People's grandmothers, people's fathers, people's moms, who would have been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him.
00:27:28.820It might have been somebody in your family that could have been impacted.
00:27:32.740So, if somebody tells you that this doesn't make a difference, having somebody competent, somebody who cares about you, who listens to ordinary people, who listens to people who are experts in these areas,
00:27:51.780if you hear somebody say it doesn't matter, it does matter.
00:27:57.700And at some point, it will make a difference to them.
00:28:06.660Obama tells us, I think for the first time, about this magical playbook that he had, which would have saved lives if only Trump had followed it.
00:28:17.580In fact, he says that his playbook would have saved 400,000 lives.
00:28:23.700So Trump is directly responsible for 400,000 deaths, says Obama.
00:33:56.220But more to the point, it is, of course, gratuitous for a leftist on her way to campaign for Kamala Harris to be bragging about her private jet.
00:34:08.300And it just goes to show, you know, what we already know, which is that these people don't believe any of the crap that they spew about climate change.
00:35:02.400Although sometimes I wonder, maybe we're giving them too much credit.
00:35:04.500We're kind of giving, like, the Lizzo's of the world the benefit of the doubt by saying, and, you know, the Leonardo DiCaprio's and the Al Gore's.
00:35:14.600We're sort of giving them the benefit of the doubt by saying that, oh, well, you don't really believe this climate change stuff.
00:35:18.860That's why you're flying on the private jet.
00:35:22.220Because the alternative is that they do believe it.
00:35:28.020And yet they're still carrying on this way.
00:35:31.280So they think that by flying a private jet, they are helping to bring about the death of mankind.
00:35:46.180Which would make these people, like, morally, that makes these people mass murderers.
00:35:52.080Now, I don't think they actually are mass murderers, because they aren't going to bring about the death of all mankind by flying on a private jet.
00:35:57.220But if they think that it will have that effect, and yet they're doing it anyway, then they are, like, morally indistinguishable from actual mass murderers.
00:36:08.220So that's the other alternative here, is that, you know, either they're hypocrites or they are mass murderers.
00:36:51.180Just imagine how out of touch you have to be to roll this out, saying that you want to make America more like Detroit.
00:37:06.160I mean, it's like if your surgeon said that right before you went under for surgery, if he told you that his greatest inspiration in the medical field was Dr. Jack Kevorkian or something.
00:37:19.460Which actually isn't that outlandish these days, so maybe that's not the best analogy.
00:37:23.540Or maybe that's why it is a good analogy.
00:39:38.220I also think that like the, the, the, the value of a college education is, is somewhat overweighted, you know,
00:39:43.720and I, I think it's, uh, too, too, too many people actually spend, spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt,
00:39:51.580and then don't, often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards.
00:39:55.940And I think, uh, I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and, uh, we, we need, like, electricians and plumbers and, uh, carpenters and, you know,
00:40:08.620that's, that's, that's a lot more important than having incremental poly, political science majors, uh, I think.
00:40:16.180Um, you know, so it, I, I think we should not have this idea that, that, uh, to be successful, you need to have a four-year college.
00:40:28.100Now, needless to say, uh, I couldn't agree more.
00:40:31.240Um, not going to college, you know, as I've, as you've heard me say, is, is, uh, one of the best decisions that I ever made.
00:40:39.900And I thank God every day that I didn't go to college, uh, maybe not every day, but, you know, periodically, periodically, I thank God I didn't go to college.
00:40:49.380And, and the great thing about it, and this, I, I tell younger people this all the time, the, if you don't go, the great thing is that you don't go to, let's say if you're me and you don't go to college.
00:41:03.600Well, you can always go to college later if you decide that you want to.
00:41:11.760So I don't regret not going to college and I never really could regret it because if I, if I ever decided that, if I ever said to myself, oh man, I wish I had a college degree, I can just go get one.
00:41:22.240You know, you, you can always go, you can take on, especially these days, you just take online classes and you can get your college degree and, uh, it's no big deal.
00:41:30.000Um, on the other hand, if you go to college and then you go into years worth of debt and then you realize that you didn't need to go or you wish you hadn't, you can't undo that.
00:41:43.760Uh, I know, I mean, if the government steals money from your fellow citizens and gives you loan forgiveness, quote unquote, then you could try to wipe out your mistake that way.
00:41:52.440But if you don't want to rely on state sponsored theft, uh, to, to cover up your mistakes, then there is no way to undo it.
00:42:02.820And you're stuck with the debt regardless.
00:42:05.740Now that doesn't mean that nobody should go to college.
00:42:07.960It just means that most people, most people shouldn't go.
00:42:12.420And probably most importantly, almost nobody should be going straight out of high school.
00:42:17.500Like in order to justify going to college straight out of high school, you would need to know exactly what you want to do for a career.
00:42:27.920And you would need to know that you need a degree to do that thing, whatever it is.
00:42:32.820And like, there's only a tiny minority of high school graduates who fall into that category at the ages of 17 or 18.
00:42:40.040How many high school graduates at 17 or 18 know exactly what they want to do and they know that they need a degree to do it?
00:42:46.000That's a, that's a small minority of the people who actually end up going to college at that age.
00:42:52.200And even most of them still shouldn't be going right out of high school.
00:42:58.320Most of them could still benefit from, you know, at least a couple of years working and building up a little bit of savings.
00:43:04.160So, you know, I say that, yes, some people should still go to college, but I, I, I can't really think of any reason why anyone should ever go to college at the age of 18.
00:43:18.720I mean, honest to God, I, I, no matter what you want to do with your life, there's no reason why at 18 years old.
00:43:27.240So, well, I'm not gonna say anyone ever, uh, if you have a athletic scholarship or something like that, then, you know, obviously that's a reason.
00:43:34.800Um, if you have all the financial means to pay for it, if you have a full ride, uh, scholarship, or if you're come from a rich family and they can pay for it and you know what you want to do with your life and you know, you need a degree, you know, you want to be a doctor or something.
00:43:48.480Well then, okay. Then, then, yeah. Uh, there's no reason not to go at the age of 18, right out of high school. And there might be compelling reasons to go right out of high school, but outside of that, um, outside of like, you have a full ride scholarship or, or you're rich and you know what you want to do.
00:44:09.460Like putting those kinds of scenarios aside, it's just, it's just kind of crazy for, for, for most people, the mass, the vast majority of people going to college right out of high school.
00:44:22.960It's just, we're used to it. It's what it's, it's the system. It's been the system for a long time, but it is a crazy system.
00:44:29.540Um, and there's really no reason for it. Um, it, it, most people you're not in a race. Like, who are you racing?
00:44:41.860Once you're out of grade school, it's like, you're not on this preordained track where you have to keep up. It's like, now it's, now it's, once you graduate high school, it's like, this is just life now.
00:44:51.640And you could go any number of ways. There's, there's infinite number of ways, directions you could take. Not all of them will be good, but, but, uh, now it's just life and you're not racing anybody.
00:45:04.100Um, and so there's just no reason to dive into this commitment, uh, you know, right out of high school.
00:45:14.720Um, it's not going to hurt you to take a couple of years, work a job, get some life experience, a little bit of savings. You know, you're, you're not going to save up enough to pay for college probably.
00:45:25.000Unless you're, unless you do wait until you're in your thirties or something. Um, but still take a couple of years at least. How is that going to hurt you?
00:45:34.620Here's an interesting case that, uh, I wanted to mention only because I think it illustrates a point that I've made a few times recently on the show.
00:45:40.760Um, we've had several cases, well, two, at least two cases, at least in the last month where, um, murderous scumbags have been found too incompetent to stand trial.
00:45:51.920And my point is that this incompetent to stand trial thing is almost always a sham, like just a way of allowing the worst and most evil people and the most dangerous among us to escape consequences.
00:46:04.340As I've argued, if you define incompetent broadly enough, then it would sort of, by definition, describe almost anyone who commits a violent crime, especially anyone who commits murder, almost anyone, because competent people don't go around committing murder in most cases.
00:46:21.360Like if you see murder as a way to solve your problems, then you're already, among other things, uh, a moron, like mentally incompetent.
00:46:31.340Incompetent. And if incompetent could describe almost any murderer, then that either means that we should use it to let them all off the hook, or it shouldn't let really any of them off the hook.
00:46:45.420Um, you know, there's, and there's only one sane option between those two.
00:46:48.960So here's a case that kind of illustrates that point for us that I just, I just happened to see this.
00:46:53.840Um, and, uh, so here it is reading from the New York post.
00:46:59.840A North Dakota woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for poisoning her boyfriend after mistakenly believing that he had inherited $30 million and plan to break up with her.
00:47:09.180Ina Thea Canoyer, 48, was convicted for the murder of Stephen Riley, 51, who died last year from ethylene glycol poisoning, the same toxin found in antifreeze.
00:47:19.260Stephanie Gonzalez, Riley's sister, told Canoyer at the court hearing in Minot that she was lucky to get such a lenient sentence.
00:47:28.580Uh, State District Judge Richard Hager sentenced Canoyer to 25 years last Wednesday after she pleaded guilty.
00:47:34.160Um, uh, to try to, uh, get, killing her boyfriend and try to get inheritance.
00:47:40.960But in a tragic twist, there was likely no inheritance in the first place.
00:47:44.500Officials said Canoyer poisoned Riley just hours after she found out, found out from an email that he had received that he was supposedly going to inherit $30 million.
00:47:53.300But Ryan Riley, the victim's 21-year-old son, told the Post that the couple had unwittingly fallen victim to an online scam and there was never any money.
00:48:01.360Uh, she told police that she planned to split Riley's alleged $30 million inheritance with his son, claiming she was entitled to a portion of it as a common-law wife.
00:48:12.580North Dakota, however, does not recognize such relationships.
00:48:15.700Okay, so, this woman, Canoyer, was found, uh, she was not found incompetent.
00:48:21.620Like, she was apparently competent to stand trial, and she was convicted and sentenced.
00:48:25.620And the sentence should have been longer, you know, it should have been life in prison.
00:48:29.440But she is going to prison for 25 years, and at her age, that's almost life.
00:48:34.060Uh, and, um, but she's not incompetent.
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00:55:13.460Last week we discussed Elon Musk's efforts to advance his space program and human civilization itself in the face of arbitrary and increasingly cumbersome and pointless interference by various government bureaucracies on the local, state, and federal level.
00:55:32.760And some of the sabotage is, of course, motivated by the regime's hatred for Elon Musk personally.
00:55:37.700But much of it, a sizable chunk anyway, is the natural byproduct of a bloated bureaucratic state that exists to make everything more difficult and more expensive and more complicated than it has any reason to be.
00:55:51.940At the Trump rally over the weekend, he told a story related to this subject.
00:55:54.900He's certainly not the only person to have experienced the unique horrors of government over-regulation and inefficiency, but he's probably experienced more of it than most people ever will.
00:56:05.540And to that end, he related this anecdote.
00:56:38.300And then we said, okay, fine, we'll do the analysis.
00:56:42.060And then, well, can you give us the shark beta?
00:56:44.640They're like, no, we can't give you the shark data.
00:56:46.980We're like, okay, well, then we're a bit of a quandary.
00:56:49.860How do we solve this difficult, this shock probability issue?
00:56:54.680And they said, well, we could give it to our Western division, but we don't trust them.
00:57:00.080And I'm like, am I in a comedy sketch here?
00:57:04.000And they're like, they're worried about the shark density data, like the people who hunt sharks for shark fins somehow getting their hands on this shark density, the shark data.
00:57:13.300And so eventually, I think we got the data, and we could, you know, run the analysis to say, like, yeah, the sharks are going to be fine.
00:57:22.060But they wouldn't let us proceed with launch until we did this crazy shark data.
00:57:25.960And then we thought, okay, now we're done.
00:57:29.320I'm like, when you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percentage of the surface area of the Pacific do you see as whale?
00:57:36.740Because I see it, look at a picture, I don't see any, it's like, you can't, where's the whale?
00:57:41.780And honestly, if the ship did hit a whale, it's like, honestly, that whale had it coming, because it's like, the odds are so low.
00:57:51.060You know, it's like, like, final destination, the whale edition.
00:57:57.160It's like, fate had it in for that whale, you know.
00:58:00.600And so we have to do the whale analysis.
00:58:02.760And it's like, okay, yeah, the whales will be fine too, you know.
00:58:05.120So the government was worried that SpaceX might hit a whale or a shark when it lands its rockets in the ocean.
00:58:13.580Just to put that into perspective, the Pacific Ocean is 60 million square miles, which works out to about 40 billion acres, which works out to about 50 billion football fields.
00:58:26.040So now we have to ask ourselves, at any given moment, how much of that space is occupied at or near the surface by sharks and whales?
00:58:36.460Let's allow for a psychotically high estimate.
00:58:41.620Let's just say that there are right now, at this moment, a billion football fields worth of sharks and whales swimming near the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
00:58:51.980Imagine an NFL football field crammed with sharks and whales.
00:58:56.380And now imagine a billion more of those.
00:59:00.560Well, even in this fantasy land scenario, that still leaves 49 billion football fields for Elon to land his rockets.
00:59:11.760The chance of hitting one of those poor creatures would still be microscopically small.
00:59:17.420And yet they still had to waste time and money dealing with this fantastically implausible hypothetical scenario.
00:59:31.320But even more than that, the government is comprised of utterly useless bureaucrats who have no skills and nothing to contribute and no reason to exist.
00:59:40.320All of these people are paid for no reason to do nothing.
00:59:44.160And so most of the waste and inefficiency in government happens simply because these people have to justify their own existence.
00:59:53.860And this is, you know, every organization deals with this kind of thing to some extent.
00:59:57.620The bigger the organization is, the more of it you get.
01:00:00.080That's why, you know, as a general rule, and this is just science, at least 30% of the people involved in any meeting that you ever go to at your job, at least 30% of those people could be fired or at least given something more productive to do.
01:00:16.120Every meeting is 90% longer than it needs to be and involves at least 30% more people than need to be involved.
01:00:25.600And when it comes to the government, that 30% figure is more like 95%, which is probably still a conservative estimate.
01:00:32.240And a few days ago, as if to prove the point, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency put out a tweet ostensibly to brag about their involvement in hurricane cleanup efforts.
01:00:45.680But instead, they accidentally provided us with maybe the most powerful illustration of government inefficiency that we've seen in a very long time.
01:00:53.620Now, accompanying that caption is this video.
01:01:23.620Okay, so for those listening to the audio podcast, I will describe what we just witnessed.
01:01:39.080What we saw was, I guess, supposed to be the inspiring spectacle of 13 CBP agents standing in a line, passing a 10-pound log down the line,
01:01:51.420to then throw it on a pile of larger logs, a larger pile of logs about 20 feet away.
01:01:57.580So just to review the numbers again, that's 13 government workers transporting one 10-pound log 20 feet.
01:02:06.540Actually, it's 14 workers if you count the guy that's just standing there and watching.
01:02:09.880I assume he's the spotter tasked with observing and tending to any injuries that might be incurred during the procedure.
01:02:17.480Because you never know when somebody might get a splinter or crack a nail or something.
01:02:22.100It is, as I said, the ultimate illustration of government inefficiency.