Tuesday, October 22, 2024

'Fire that smelly old man': Yelp freezes McDonald's comments amid anti-Trump reviews

YOU KNOW ITS FAKE CAUSE HE HAS NO HAIRNET

Erik De La Garza
October 22, 2024 

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump works behind the counter during a visit to McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 20, 2024. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS

Yelp temporarily disabled new reviewers from posting comments until it probes a spike of “unusual reviews” at the Pennsylvania McDonald’s where Donald Trump worked the fry baskets and drive-through window.


The “unusual activity alert” was issued days after the former president held a photo-op at the fast food restaurant in Feasterville, closing down normal operations for hours, and prompting a flood of Yelp reviews which, as NBC News reported, "varied in content, jest and vulgarity, with some criticizing the franchise owner for hosting the Trump campaign."

“Customer service was a joke. Senile old man got bronzer on my fries, didn't wear gloves. Repeated himself several times, something about Ronald McDonald in the showers at the golf club? Idk. 0 stars. Do not recommend,” read one user’s one-star review.


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Another one-star reviewer wrote: “The person who was at the drive through vaguely resembled someone who I saw on the news for being a convicted felon..”

A two-star reviewer wrote: "Fire that smelly old man cursing at the fryer! Employees seemed extremely angry and confused like he didn't even really know where he was. I think I smelled s---. Fries still pretty good."


The fast food restaurant received more than 145 reviews before Yelp issued its “unusual activity alert” and halted commenting Monday, according to NBC News.

A notice on the McDonald’s location’s Yelp page informs users that “this business recently received increased public attention, which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news.”

The message added that the site was working to “investigate whether the content you see here reflects actual consumer experiences rather than the recent events.” Yelp encouraged users who had a “first-hand experience with the business” to check back later to leave a review.


Lara Trump admits ex-president's McDonald's visit was 'stunt' after hairnet complaints

David Edwards
October 22, 2024 

Bianca de la Garza and Lara Trump (Newsmax/screen grab)

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump admitted that former President Donald Trump's recent visit to a Pennsylvania McDonald's was a political stunt after he was criticized for not wearing a hairnet while serving fries.

During an interview on Newsmax, host Bianca de la Garza told Lara Trump that Republicans had more "joy" than Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign.

"I think that that is why you've seen so many people move in Donald Trump's direction," Lara Trump agreed. "Well, Donald Trump was having a great time at a McDonald's, working the fryer there, putting extra fries in for people, handing them out through the drive-through window."

"Kamala Harris could never have gone in there and done this sort of thing and actually had the same impact as Donald Trump, and she knows it," she continued. "And that's why you see the left so upset about this. And they're saying, he didn't work the whole shift. It wasn't a full shift at McDonald's.

"I saw somebody say he wasn't wearing a hairnet. Everybody knows that this was a political stunt. Yeah, but it was fun and it was lighthearted."

The Newsmax host accused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) of taking "cheap shots" at the former president over his McDonald's "costume."

"They are making fun of us. It's not a costume. It's a uniform," the host said.

"Yeah, and it's just gross," Lara Trump complained. "So when you hear people go out there and try to knock somebody for a retail politics-type stop, like at a McDonald's, I think it's ridiculous."

Watch the video below from Newsmax.






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