Eric Trump makes surprise visit to Oakmont Bakery
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Eric Trump made a surprise visit Thursday to Oakmont Bakery, where he passed out cookies decorated with his father’s face to dozens of supporters.
Oakmont Bakery is hosting its traditional presidential Cookie Poll. The bakery serves up sweets adorned with images of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, tallying which cookies sell best.
Trump is in the lead, with 13,656 cookies sold, said Oakmont Bakery owner Marc Serrao. The bakery has sold 2,813 Biden cookies.
“When I hear that the cookie poll was 13,500 to Trump and 2,000 to Biden, that makes me feel pretty comfortable about the area,” Trump said, adding he was happy to see supporters donning Trump attire and chanting for his father to get four more years in office. “It’s also fantastic for local businesses like this that there’s that much passion.”
Trump wore a mask into the building but removed it when interacting with supporters.
He said he’d heard Oakmont Bakery was “the best bakery on the East Coast” and commended the owners and employees.
“Pennsylvania’s the most important state. It just is,” he said. “Pennsylvania’s always close, but I’ve never seen momentum like this. Everywhere we turn up, you have crowds.”
Trump said he felt “very confident” his father would win Pennsylvania again this year.
“It’s a state that we care about tremendously. I spent much of my youth in Pennsylvania. I think we’re going to win it, and I care about winning it,” Trump said.
Trump touted his father’s platforms as the reason for the support throughout Pennsylvania.
“Look what my father stands for,” he said. “He wants the greatest economy in the world. He wants the strongest military. He wants to take care of our veterans. He wants further tax cuts. He wants peace in the Middle East. He wants to lower prescription drug prices, which he’s already done.”
He said he believes people are rejecting Biden’s platforms. He criticized the possibility of Biden packing the Supreme Court and raising taxes.
“Business like that can’t survive with another $4 trillion worth of taxes. They’d be belly up,” he said.
For Serrao, having Eric Trump visit was an honor. He said the bakery had welcomed Gov. Tom Wolf last year, as well.
“It’s a famous person in our business,” he said, adding that it was exciting for Oakmont to get some recognition.
With social media commenters fuming about Trump appearing maskless, the bakery later added a Facebook post, saying Secret Service wouldn’t allow them to address Trump about taking off his mask.
Oakmont Bakery has held a “cookie poll” for every presidential election over the past two decades. It’s been a fairly accurate bellwether of the actual elections, Serrao said, except for the 2012 race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
But it’s all bipartisan fun, Serrao said. For those who prefer not to endorse a candidate with their dessert choices, Oakmont Bakery offers “Sweet Party” cookies — red, white and blue confections adorning a generic smiley face. The sales tally so far is 288.
“Our focus is on our business, and we don’t want to cause division ever,” he said. “For us, it’s about selling the cookie. And it was an honor that (Eric Trump) came.”