Kamala Caught in Another Tall Tale: The McDonald’s Job That Never Was?
Vice President Kamala Harris is no stranger to spinning a good story, but her latest claim about flipping burgers at McDonald’s might just be another example of political fiction. For years, Harris has told the tale of working at McDonald’s after her freshman year of college, proudly stating, “I did fries, and then I did the cashier.” But new public records suggest that this story might be as real as a Big Mac made of tofu.
Harris first dropped this nugget during her 2019 presidential campaign, even mentioning it on “The Drew Barrymore Show.” The mainstream media jumped on it, with outlets like the New York Times reporting her summer job at a McDonald’s in Alameda, near Oakland. It seemed like a relatable story—until the cracks started to show.
Politico was the first to notice something fishy when the Harris campaign quietly edited one of her ads. The original ad claimed she took the job to “pay her way” through college, but the updated version admitted she did it “just to earn a bit more spending money.” The Washington Free Beacon then dug deeper, discovering that neither of Harris’s two memoirs nor her earlier books mention anything about working at McDonald’s. Even a biographer who chronicled Harris’s rise to power in 2021 had never heard of this fast-food fling.
But the real smoking gun came when the Beacon obtained a copy of Harris’s job application from 1987, the year she supposedly worked at McDonald’s. At the time, she was in law school and applying for a position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. The application listed every job she’d ever held over the past 10 years, right down to a brief stint at a stock brokerage. But guess what? No mention of McDonald’s.
Records obtained by the Beacon:
Harris loves to talk about her worldly experiences—traveling in India, Africa, and Europe, and living in Montreal, Canada—but her supposed McDonald’s job? Nowhere to be found. It looks like this might be yet another attempt by a politician to relate to regular Americans, only this time it seems like the story doesn’t hold up.
This isn’t the first time the Harris campaign has been caught stretching the truth. Along with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris has had a rough start. From misleading claims about her past to Walz’s shaky stories about his military record and personal life, it’s becoming harder to know what’s fact and what’s fiction.
As Harris and Walz prepare for their first unscripted interview on CNN this Thursday, one thing’s for sure—Americans will be watching closely to see if they can finally get some straight answers. But with a history of tall tales and half-truths, it’s anyone’s guess what they’ll say next.
