‘It’s Authenticity’: Victor Davis Hanson Breaks Down Why Trump’s McDonald’s Stop Resonated With Working Class

Political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explained Monday on Fox News why former President Donald Trump’s Sunday McDonald’s stop resonated with the working class.

During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Hanson detailed how Trump’s visit to a McDonald’s struck a chord with working-class Americans and pointed out Trump’s genuine nature and consistent message. Hanson also added that Trump’s consistency on key issues—securing the border, promoting fossil fuels and fighting crime—has cemented his appeal among middle-class voters.

“Well, it’s authenticity. It’s his issues, his agenda, they stay consistent. He didn’t change them to the same thing, secure border, predictable, deterrence abroad, fight crime, promote fossil fuels. It’s consistent, and everybody knows it’s consistent,” Hanson told Laura Ingraham. “It’s aimed at a middle class. And then there’s the person Trump.”

Hanson contrasted Trump’s approach with what he sees in other politicians, particularly Vice President Kamala Harris.

“He wears the same type of clothes, whether he’s in the inner city or whether he’s out on the campaign trail or he’s up in Trump Tower,” Hanson added. “He has the same Bronx accent. He doesn’t have a Jamaican accent, a black accent, Hispanic accent, depending on the crowd he’s addressing like Kamala Harris. He didn’t switch over and modify his positions in an antithetical way just to get elected.”

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Hanson also drew a clear line between Trump’s perceived authenticity and Harris’s political shifts.

“And that’s in contrast with her. The reason we know that he’s authentic and she’s not is because the last 90 days she’s refuted Laura all of her lifetime agendas and has embraced things that are eerily similar to Trump,” Hanson continued.

In contrast, Hanson criticized Harris for lacking authenticity in similar situations and argued that Harris’s background in government and academia starkly differed from Trump’s hands-on experience in building and real estate

“She’s been in government and among the elites her entire life,” Hanson added. “She’s the child of two PhDs and she just went straight into the political world and has never come out of it. He’s a builder, so he has to know what cement workers do, what electricians do, what plumbers do, and he likes the people because they build his things.”

Trump stepped behind the counter Sunday at a McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, serving fries and taking drive-thru orders. Later that day, Trump attended a Pittsburgh Steelers game against the New York Jets, blending fast food with football as he connected with fans.

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