A plane flying across a cloudless sky in Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon could be seen towing a provocative banner targeting Donald Trump and New York Jets fans.
The plane carried a banner reading, ‘TRUMP AND JETS FANS BOTH JAGOFFS FROM NYC,’ referencing both Trump and Jets fans being from New York City.
The message was directed at Trump who attended the game on Sunday night to see the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the New York Jets, watching from a private suite at the Acrisure Stadium.
Heightened security measures were put in place for the former president.
A plane flying across a cloudless sky in Pittsburgh on Sunday afternoon could be seen towing a provocative banner targeting Donald Trump and New York Jets fans
Trump attended the game to see the Pittsburgh Steelers take on the New York Jets, watching from a private suite at the Acrisure Stadium
The plane carried a banner reading, ‘TRUMP AND JETS FANS BOTH JAGOFFS FROM NYC,’ referencing both Trump and Jets fans being from New York City
Trump could be seen waving to fans from his suite at the end of the first quarter, taking time out of his election campaign to enjoy some NFL action.
Adoring supporters serenaded the former president with chants of ‘USA’ as he showed his appreciation, before taking his seat to watch the NFL action.
The game is a pivotal one, too, with both the Steelers and the Jets in desperate need of a victory in Week 7.
Earlier on Sunday, Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window.
As reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a scoop.
Trump, a well-known fan of fast food and a notorious germophobe, expressed amazement that he didn’t have to touch the fries with his hands.
Trump watched the first half of an NFL football game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Jets in Pittsburg
Trump could be seen cheering on the New York Jets during Sunday night’s football game
Trump is seen sitting in one of the private suites at the football game in Pittsburgh
‘It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast,’ Trump said with a grin, putting away his suit jacket and wearing an apron over his shirt and tie.
The visit came as he’s tried to counter Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ accounts on the campaign of working at the fast-food chain in college, an experience that Trump has claimed – without offering evidence – never happened.
A large crowd lined the street outside the restaurant in Feasterville-Trevose, which is part of Bucks County, a key swing voter area north of Philadelphia.
Trump could be seen watching the game intently from a private suite at the stadium
At one point Trump could be seen waving to the crows from the comfort of his private suite
Earlier on Sunday Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania before staging an impromptu news conference
After serving bags of takeout to people in the drive-thru lane, Trump leaned out of the window, still wearing the apron, to take questions from the media staged outside.
The former president, who has constantly promoted falsehoods about his 2020 election loss, said he would respect the results of next month’s vote ‘if it’s a fair election.’
The restaurant itself was closed to the public for Trump’s visit. The former president later attended an evening town hall in Lancaster before heading onto the Pittsburgh Steelers home game.
He joked about getting one reporter ice cream and when another asked what message he had for Harris on her 60th birthday on Sunday, Trump said, ‘I would say, `Happy Birthday, Kamala,´’ adding, ‘I think I´ll get her some flowers.’
Trump did not directly answer a question of whether he might support increased minimum wages after seeing McDonald´s employees in action but said, ‘These people work hard. They´re great.’
He added that ‘I just saw something … a process that’s beautiful.’
An employee hands an order to Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a visit to McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania
After serving bags of takeout to people in the drive-thru lane, Trump leaned out of the window, still wearing the apron, to take questions from the media staged outside
When aides finally urged him to wrap things up so he could hit the road to his next event, Trump offered, ‘Wasn’t that a strange place to do a news conference?’
Trump has fixated in recent weeks on the summer job Harris said she held in college, working the cash register and making fries at McDonald´s while in college. Trump says the vice president has ‘lied about working’ there, but not offered evidence for claiming that.
Representatives for McDonald´s did not respond to a message about whether the company had employment records for one of its restaurants 40 years ago.
But Harris spokesman Joseph Costello said the former president’s McDonald’s visit ‘showed exactly what we would see in a second Trump term: exploiting working people for his own personal gain.’
‘Trump doesn´t understand what it´s like to work for a living, no matter how many staged photo ops he does, and his entire second term plan is to give himself, his wealthy buddies, and giant corporations another massive tax cut,’ Costello said in a statement.