United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain continues to hit Donald Trump’s claims that he cares about working people.
“Donald Trump’s all talk, and he’s a master at BS,” Fain told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
“And you know, in 2019 he talks about saving the auto industry and how he’s going to bring the auto industry back. Where the hell was he when he was president?” he continued. “Because plants were closing. Lordstown, Ohio, plant closed. Donald Trump told people there, don’t sell your houses. And what did he do? He did nothing. He said nothing. That plant closed. Those workers got sent all over this country.”
Fain’s remarks were made on the same day that the UAW filed federal labor charges that Trump and Elon Musk attempted to “intimidate and threaten” union workers during an interview on Monday evening.
Federal law protects workers who go on strike from being fired, and it is illegal to threaten to do so, the UAW argued.
“Donald Trump will always side against workers standing up for themselves, and he will always side with billionaires like Elon Musk, who is contributing $45 million a month to a Super PAC to get him elected,” Fain said. “Both Trump and Musk want working class people to sit down and shut up, and they laugh about it openly. It’s disgusting, illegal, and totally predictable from these two clowns.”
