Former President Donald Trump received a warm welcome from striking auto workers during his visit to Michigan on Tuesday.
Speaking in front of striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Clinton Township, Trump blasted President Joe Biden for simply posing for “photos at the picket line” and directed the blame toward the president’s policies for the strikers’ predicament.
“The workers of America are getting – I’m going to put it very nicely – screwed, you’re getting screwed,” Trump said. “Yesterday Joe Biden posed for photos at the picket line. But it is his policies that sent Michigan autoworkers to the unemployment line.
“He only came after I announced that I would be here. You know, he announced quite a bit later, spoke for a few seconds … and he had absolutely no idea what he was saying,” he continued. “He didn’t know where he was.”
Biden reportedly left the event in favor of a California fundraiser, where tickets started at $5,000 and were capped at $100,000 per person.
“Hundreds of thousands of American jobs, your jobs, will be gone forever because Crooked Joe Biden is selling out,” Trump said. “But I don’t think it’s him. I don’t think he actually knows what the hell he’s doing … But he’s surrounded with radical left Marxists and crazy people, fascists, bad people.”
The 45th president went on to say that Biden is “selling out” autoworkers to China and “environmental extremists on the radical left.”
“You can be loyal to American labor, or you can be loyal to the environmental lunatics, but you can’t really be loyal to both. It’s one or the other,” Trump said, adding that “the Democrat Party has no idea what they’re doing right now.”
Attendees of the Trump campaign weighed in on the former president’s promise to the auto industry.
“Even though everybody thinks that these negotiations and everybody thinks the strike is a big deal, in a couple years it’s going to be a moot point,” said an attendee. “Because you’re not going to have jobs. I think he hit the nail on the head.”
