A Tale of Two Campaigns: Kamala Bashing Jesus, Trump Serving French Fries

There are a few moments in any campaign — like George H.W. Bush looking at his watch during a 1992 debate — that need no caption to explain the political fallout.

Kamala Harris was promoting abortion to an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500 supporters. Two University of Wisconsin students, pro-life protestors, shouted, ‘Christ is King, Jesus is Lord.’ To which Harris replied, ‘Oh you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go at the smaller one down the street.’ Cue the laughter.

Luke Polaske and Grant Beth, students at the university, were pushed, shoved and escorted out the door by a guard who told them they were not welcome there. That was Kamala’s message too: Christians, or anyone who disagrees with her extreme all-9-month abortion message, are not welcome — at her rallies, in her party, in her country.

Message received. X exploded in anger, and in song. If Jesus wasn’t welcome at Kamala’s rallies, a singing black gospel group posted, He was more than welcome at MAGA rallies. The video went viral on TikTok. Watch here.

President Trump meanwhile donned an apron and served fries and hamburgers from a McDonald’s drive-thru window. This was to troll Harris, who falsely claimed she had once worked there, so “I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala.”

More importantly his stint at McDonald’s underscored an important political realignment: Republicans are now the party of the working man, Democrats the party of the elite. A swell of support is coming from the grassroots for Trump — and they revere him as someone who stood up to bogus prosecutions and literally took a bullet for them, someone who as a billionaire wants only to make their lives great again. Democrats and their media echo chamber now stand to putting their economic interests above ours, a corrupt arsenal of government meant to quash us.

With his genius for marketing, Trump didn’t have to say anything of this. After the election someone is going to have to explain it to the regime media, who called the stop at McDonalds “bizarre,” puzzling over whether it could actually sway voters.

But the public got it, and the memes were fabulous.

As for Harris, her banishing Christians from her rally was also self-explanatory. It followed an earlier snub when she became the first presidential candidate since Walter Mondale to skip the Al Smith Dinner, a Catholic charity event in which candidates roast each other with jabs meant to contrast the rough rhetoric of the campaign, and to humanize the candidates. As Donald Trump was quick to point out in his remarks, in 1984 Mondale lost 49 states to Ronald Reagan.

Kamala called it in, sending a video from the WH, featuring an actress who dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl, a former SNL actress activist Molly Shannon whose performance some thought disrespectful. Maybe they had her confused with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who has apologized for a viral skit in which she fed a Dorito chip to a social media influencer, as if offering communion.

The truth is, Far Left Dems have long disparaged religion.

In their policies to promote males playing in women’s sports, and to win taxpayer funding for transgender medical procedures, they have thrown out the Bible. In their support for school boards that sexualize children with drag queen shows and put pornography in school libraries, they have abetted the Devil. And in the DOJ’s prosecution of parents who object to school board policies or peaceful demonstrators who protest abortions, the Biden-Harris White House has criminalized those who respect God’s work on earth. Like Lenin, Biden-Harris understood that brainwashing kids and shutting down churches are always the first priorities of dictatorship.

While in in the Senate, Harris repeatedly railed at judicial nominees who belonged to the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal group. Her reasoning: Knights of Columbus is an extreme group because it opposes abortion. “Do you believe that a fetus is entitled to any protection under the U.S. Constitution?” she asked one.

Meanwhile President Biden, who calls himself a Catholic, chose Good Friday – the day Christ sacrificed Himself in a brutal crucifixion — to declare a “Transgender Day of Visibility.” I remember angry conservative pundits at the time countering that November 5, election day, would be the American Day of Visibility.

At the Al Smith Dinner, Trump told one joke that has stayed with me.

“There’s a group called ‘White Dudes for Harris’ but I’m not worried about them at all,” he deadpanned, “because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me.”

It was a not-so-subtle dig at the way the Dems have tried to make this election a referendum on gender — promising abortion for all, through all nine months, promoting Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and VP Candidate Tim Walz as some sort of low-testosterone Male Exemplars in the Disney-like Campaign of Joy, pledging transgender surgeries on the taxpayers’ dime for all prisoners and illegal migrants.

Trump was saying that real-men and the women who love them are not confused about their God-given genders, that they rally to men with plenty of testosterone, that they are Americans who when FEMA fails to deliver disaster relief to the stranded survivors of Hurricane Helene will roll up their sleeves and do the work, no whining.

Sometimes I think the Trump team sees transgender excesses as the sleeper issue of 2024. In PA, one Trump ad documents how California AG Kamala Harris helped cover the costs of transgender surgery for an inmate convicted of killing a couple by tying them to the anchor of their boat and throwing them into the ocean to drown.

Another echoes the theme.

After his stint at McDonalds, Trump flew to Lancaster, PA, for a 90-minute town hall hosted by Sage Steele, a former ESPN host, and then to Pittsburgh, to attend the Steelers-Jets football game. Outside former Steelers legends Antonia Brown and Le’Veon Bell were registering hundreds of new Trump supporters.

Inside, there were scattered boos. But there, in the land of football and manufacturing, he was also greeted with chants of USA! USA! USA!

He stood and waved back. These were his people.