Tim Walz reacted on Monday to Donald Trump‘s viral day at McDonald’s, calling the campaign stop disrespectful pandering.
Trump stopped at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s over the weekend, where he spent time serving customers and taking photos that have since gone viral. During an appearance on The View, Walz panned the event, calling it disrespectful to the middle class.
“Vice President Harris and I grew up middle class,” Walz said. “We understand that she actually worked in a McDonald’s, she didn’t go and pander and disrespect McDonald’s workers by standing there in your red tie and take a picture.”
Walz continued, “His policies are the ones that undermine those very workers that were in that McDonald’s, whether it’s home ownership, health care, reproductive rights or cost of products. So there’s more work to be done.”
He finished by saying, “Just to be very clear, nothing Donald Trump is proposing does anything about the middle class.”
Walz appeared on The Daily Show with Monday host Jon Stewart later that same night, where he touched on many of the same issues and spoke about the undecided voters he’s met on the campaign trail.
“Folks are still talking. And I know it’s hard to imagine, there’s a lot of folks who are still deciding what they’re gonna do,” Walz said. “For a lot of them, they’ve never crossed over that line. And you can say it about Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney and some of those that did show some courage to cross over.”
He later added, “These are folks that want to find a reason to not vote for Donald Trump. We need to give them that.”
