Bill Clinton pops into McDonald’s on marketing campaign path – however his server thinks he’s Joe Biden | EUROtoday

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Former President Bill Clinton shocked a gaggle of fast-food employees when he indulged his well-known love for McDonald’s throughout a marketing campaign cease boosting Vice President Kamala Harris.

Clinton was in Georgia campaigning for Harris when he determined to swing by an area McDonald’s. A video of his go to reveals him approaching the counter, the place a trio of employees look on with shock.

One lady who is particularly shocked asks Clinton if he’s “Joe” — mistaking him for Joe Biden — earlier than he corrects her. After realizing who he was, the girl appeared delighted and left the counter to hug the previous president.

“Bill Clinton — oh my God I love you!” the employee mentioned.

She then posed for pictures with Clinton, saying “this is Bill y’all.”

Back in August through the Democratic National Convention, Clinton used his love of McDonald’s — and the truth that Harris labored on the restaurant when she was youthful — to argue that she would take care of service employees if she’s elected in November, NBC News stories.

“When she was a student, she worked at McDonald’s,” Clinton mentioned throughout his speech. “She greeted every person with that thousand-watt smile and said ‘How can I help you?’ And now that she’s at the pinnacle of power, she’s still asking ‘How can I help you?’”

He added: “I’ll be so happy when she actually enters the White House because, at last, she’ll break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.”

Clinton’s love for the Golden Arches was so well-known throughout his presidency that it was parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Phil Hartman enjoying Clinton. During the skit, the fake Clinton ate different prospects meals and joked about his love of the restaurant.

A McDonald’s in Little Rock even has a plaque paying tribute to his visits whereas he was the governor of Arkansas.

Clinton isn’t the one president to point out unabashed love for McDonald’s; Donald Trump was additionally an enormous fan of the fast-food chain. He famously handled Clemson University’s nationwide champion soccer staff to a McDonald’s feast on the White House in 2019, and purchased burgers and fries for first responders who had been working to assist East Palestine residents after a Norfolk Southern prepare carrying harmful chemical substances derailed final February.