Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that Google CEO Sundar Pichai called him to appreciate his recent visit to McDonald’s. “I went to McDonald’s last week and I got a call from Sundar (Pichai), actually,” Donald Trump said during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Podcast. “He said, ‘This is the biggest thing to happen to us in years.’
Trump continued, “Sundar, who is a great guy by the way, said, ‘This McDonald’s thing, let me tell you, it’s one of the biggest things ever on Google. It just hit.'”
President Trump described receiving a call from Google CEO Sundar Pichai after his visit to McDonald’s:
“This McDonald’s thing was one of the biggest things ever on Google; It just became a hit.” pic.twitter.com/AcLKq1iiMl
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The former president’s visit to McDonald’s in Pennsylvania was not just a campaign stop, but a strategic move aimed at weakening his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. She quipped that she has now worked “15 minutes more than him” at the fast-food chain, referencing his previous comments about her experience working there when she was younger.
“He lied about McDonald’s,” Trump declared. “I have worked here for 15 minutes, which is 15 minutes more than he has worked here. Does this prove that he never worked at McDonald’s? Well, McDonald’s has no idea. No, he has no idea. He is nobody. The manager said he never worked there,” he added.
Trump had alleged that Google obscures the results of people trying to find information about him. He had previously said that he had contacted CEO Sundar Pichai to express his complaints regarding the alleged bias in search results.
At an event hosted by the Economic Club of Chicago on October 15, Trump told Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait that he had recently contacted “the head of Google” and expressed his concerns over search results associated with . Name.
“I’ve been finding a lot of good stories lately, but you don’t find them in Google,” Trump told Pichai. “I think this is a completely rigged deal. I feel that just as our government is rigged, Google is also rigged.” “He only has bad stories. In other words, if I have 20 good stories and 20 bad stories, and everyone deserves one, you’ll only see 20 bad stories,” he told Micklethwait.