09-05-2025
What Trump's beloved McDonald's reveals about the US economy
Every afternoon Robert Karasin drives to his local McDonald's, orders a coffee and sits with his friends to chat. It has become a daily ritual he refuses to skip. For President Trump, however, he was willing to make an exception.
Last October Karasin could 'not get close' to the golden arches of Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, when the 2024 Republican presidential nominee came to flip burgers and cook french fries.
It was a spectacle that many residents still talk about to this day. Snipers lined the roofs of nearby buildings, roads were closed, an entirely different set of employees was brought in to work the shift and only a select group of customers were allowed to be served. 'There were huge crowds in the street,' recalled Karasin,
