Daily Caller: McDonald’s Employee Apparently Fails To Recognize Bill Clinton, Confusing Him With ‘Joe’ During Surprise Campaign Stop

McDonald’s Employee Apparently Fails To Recognize Bill Clinton, Confusing Him With ‘Joe’ During Surprise Campaign Stop

Gone and forgotten?  The story reports:

“A McDonald’s employee in Georgia appears to have mistaken former President Bill Clinton for President Joe Biden when he dropped by while rallying support for Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, video posted Sunday shows.

Clinton, wearing a baseball jacket with “USA” emblazoned on its back, exchanged greetings with the employee, thevideo shows. The employee is seen giving Clinton a quizzical look and expectantly asks, while shaking hands with him, “You Joe? Mr. Joe?”  

Someone not in the field of view clarified it was Clinton. The employee then exclaims, “Oh! I gotta hug you!” and ran around the counter to hug the forty-second president of the United States. Other employees appeared similarly surprised before taking photos of their colleague with Clinton.

The video appears to have been originally posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) by Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña.

“The boss was stumping for @KamalaHarris in Georgia and had to stop by the old stomping grounds, @McDonalds,” Ureña wrote. 

Clinton’s love for McDonald’s is well-known. Clinton himself joked about it during his Aug. 21 speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, saying, “I’ll be so happy when [Harris] actually enters the White House because she will break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.” 

Clinton so frequented a McDonald’s in Little Rock, Arkansas while he was the state’s governor that the establishment bears a plaque commemorating his visits, NBC 5 Chicago reported.

Clinton made the visits during his morning runs while serving as governor and during his 1992 presidential campaign, the plaque claims.

“Thank you for your business, Mr. President,” the plaque, dedicated in 2019, read. 

A 1992 “Saturday Night Live” sketch shows the late comedian Phil Hartman playing a gregarious Clinton stopping by a McDonald’s while on a jog.

“Let me tell you something, there’s gonna be a whole bunch of things we don’t tell Mrs. Clinton. Fast food is the least of our worries, okay, buddy?” Hartman’s portrayal of Clinton laughingly tells a member of his security detail, played by Kevin Nealon, who expresses concern the visit would be disapproved by the former first lady. 

A Sept. 6, 2004 quadruple-bypass surgery following heart problems forced the then-58-year-old Clinton to replace his McDonald’s staples with a vegan diet, according to The Washington Post.

Both Harris and 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have repeatedly talked up their associations with McDonald’s during their ongoing campaigns, Yahoo Finance reported.”

McDonald’s a favorite of both Clinton and Trump makes it bipartisan for sure.