Highlights:
VIDEO: Trump Said That Auto Workers Were Being “Ripped Off” By Their “Horrendous Leadership.” According to a Trump video entitled Message to America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, “TRUMP: What's happening to our auto workers is an absolute disgrace and an outrage beyond belief. Auto workers are getting totally ripped off by crooked Joe Biden and also their horrendous leadership, because these people are allowing our country to do these electric vehicles that very few people want.” [Donald Trump – President Trump’s Message To America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, 10/22/23]
VIDEO: Trump Said The UAW Was “Sold Down The Tubes By Their So-Called Leadership.” According to a Trump video via YouTube, “TRUMP: The United Auto Workers are being sold down the tubes by their so-called leadership. They always support Democrats, yet they have lost 60% of car manufacturing over the years to foreign countries.” [Donald Trump via YouTube, 10/14/23]
VIDEO: Trump Said That The UAW Bosses Were Not “Leaders.” According to a Trump video entitled Message to America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, “TRUMP: I call him Crooked Joe, cause he's the most corrupt president in history. He's also the most incompetent. But Joe Biden’s cruel and foolish electric vehicle mandate - that's how bad this policy is. Your union heads know it, but the union bosses don't want to do anything about it because they're not leaders.” [Donald Trump – President Trump’s Message To America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, 10/22/23]
VIDEO: Trump Told UAW Workers Not To Pay Their Union Dues. According to a Trump video entitled Message to America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, “TRUMP: They've got some deals going for themselves. And I'm telling you, you shouldn't pay those dues. You should not pay your dues, because they're selling you to hell.” [Donald Trump – President Trump’s Message To America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, 10/22/23]
VIDEO: Trump Baselessly Suggested That UAW Leaders Had “Some Deals Going For Themselves.” According to a Trump video entitled Message to America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, “TRUMP: They've got some deals going for themselves. And I'm telling you, you shouldn't pay those dues. You should not pay your dues because they're selling you to hell.” [Donald Trump – President Trump’s Message To America’s Auto Workers via YouTube, 10/22/23]
Trump Said Fain Did Not “Have A Clue.” According to Trump’s post on Truth Social, “Shawn Fain doesn’t understand this or have a clue. Get rid of this dope & vote for DJT. I will bring the Automobile Industry back to our Country.” [Truth Social, @realdonaldtrump, 1/28/24]
Trump Called Fain A “Weapon Of Mass Destruction On Auto Workers And The Automobile Industry In The United States.” According to Trump’s post on Truth Social, “Shawn Fain is a Weapon of Mass Destruction on Auto Workers and the Automobile Manufacturing Industry in the United States! Is he under contract to China, because they will be getting almost all of our ‘Car making’ Business within a very short period of time. All Autoworkers should VOTE FOR TRUMP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’” [Truth Social, @realdonaldtrump, 1/29/24]
Trump On Fain: “Is He Under Contract To China?”According to Trump’s post on Truth Social, “Is he under contract to China, because they will be getting almost all of our ‘Car making’ Business within a very short period of time.” [Truth Social, @realdonaldtrump, 1/29/24]
January 28, 2024: Trump Called Fain A “Dope.” According to Trump’s post on Truth Social, “I had the great privilege of watching Shawn Fain, the President of the United Auto Workers, this morning on DeFace the Nation. He is a real ‘STIFF’ who is selling the Automobile Industry right into the big, powerful, hands of China. 55% of the industry has already left the U.S., and the rest will soon be following if I am not elected President. He bought into Biden’s ‘vision’ of all Electric Vehicles, which require far fewer workers to make each car but, more importantly, are not wanted in large numbers by the consumer, and will ALL be made in China. I want them to be made in the USA, every type of car, and would require China, and other countries, through TARIFFS, or otherwise, to build plants here, with our workers. Now they are building in Mexico, the biggest plants anywhere, and selling their cars, Tariff Free, into the good ol’ USA. Shawn Fain doesn’t understand this or have a clue. Get rid of this dope & vote for DJT. I will bring the Automobile Industry back to our Country.” [Truth Social, @realdonaldtrump, 1/28/24]
January 24, 2024: Biden Was Endorsed By UAW. According to the Associated Press, “President Joe Biden picked up an endorsement from the United Auto Workers union Wednesday, an important boost to the Democratic president’s reelection bid as he pushes to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin.” [Associated Press, 1/24/24]
VIDEO: Trump Said That Fain Was Selling Auto Workers “Down The River.” According to NBC News via YouTube, “TRUMP: The auto workers are being sold down the river by their leadership. And their leadership should endorse Trump. The reason is, you gotta have choice, like in school, I want school choice. I also want choice for cars. If somebody wants gasoline, if somebody wants all electric, they cane do whatever they want. But they’re destroying the consumer and they’re destroying the auto workers. The auto workers will not have any jobs, Kristen, because all of these cars are going to be made in China. The electric cars, automatically, are going to be made in China.” [NBC News via YouTube, 9/17/23]
VIDEO: Trump On Fain: “I Think He’s Not Doing A Good Job In Representing His Union.” According to NBC News via YouTube, “WELKER: Let’s talk about UAW’s leadership. The president, Shawn Fain, has withheld his endorsement of President Biden. This is what he had to say about you. ‘Another Donald Trump presidency would be a disaster.’ How would you win that endorsement? TRUMP: Well, if that's the case, I probably won't win his. I don't know the gentleman, but I know his name very well. And I think he's not doing a good job in representing his union because he's not going to have a union in three years from now.” [NBC News via YouTube, 9/17/23]
VIDEO: Trump Said That Fain Was Presiding Over The “Death Of Auto Workers In America.” According to a Trump video via YouTube, “TRUMP: Shawn Fain cannot preside over the death of auto workers in America because as the head of the union, that's what he's doing.” [Donald Trump via YouTube, 10/14/23]
Trump Attacked UAW Local 1112 President, David Green, For Being A Democrat And Blamed Him For Inaction On The Lordstown G.M. Plant. According to a tweet from Donald Trump, “Democrat UAW Local 1112 President David Green ought to get his act together and produce. G.M. let our Country down, but other much better car companies are coming into the U.S. in droves. I want action on Lordstown fast. Stop complaining and get the job done! 3.8% Unemployment!” [Twitter, @realdonaldtrump, 3/17/19]
Green Reached Out To Trump For Help With The Lordstown Plant Nearly 10 Months Before He Was Attacked By Trump On Twitter. According to The Hill, “Green wrote to Trump in July to express concerns about recent layoffs at the Lordstown plant and to seek the president’s help in getting the company to reinvest in the facility, according to The Youngstown Vindicator.” [The Hill, 3/17/19]
Vanity Fair Headline: “Trump Spends Labor Day Attacking the Leader of America’s Largest Labor Union.” [Vanity Fair, 9/3/18]
September 2018: Trump Attacked AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Over Labor Day Weekend For Being A Democrat And As An Example Of Why Unions Were Failing. According to a tweet from Donald Trump, “Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, represented his union poorly on television this weekend. Some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A Dem!” [Twitter, @realdonaldtrump, 9/3/18]
VIDEO: Trump On Trumka: “He’s Good, But He’s A Union Guy.” According to Fox Business via YouTube, “BARTIROMO: Richard Trumka was on the show last week, Mr. President, and I told him that the income gap was narrowing before the Coronavirus. I remember reporting on this because wages were going up so much. And he said absolutely not. It’s not true. Can you talk to us about what was taking place in terms of the income gap and wages before this Coronavirus, because I was communicating this just the other day to Richard Trumka and he said it’s not true. TRUMP: Look, he totally controls Nancy Pelosi. In fact, when we did the USMCA, he had to sign off on it for her. She wouldn’t do it unless he signed off. And he’s a good guy, but he’s a union guy. You know, he’s good, but he’s a union guy.” [Fox Business via YouTube, 8/13/20]
Trump Attacked AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka And Encouraged Its Members To Stop Paying Their Union Dues. According to a tweet from Donald Trump, “Just watched AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on @FoxNews and thought to myself how different he is on TV than he is when he is with me at the White House. Likes what we are doing until the cameras go on. We got robbed on Trade and everything else while his Dems just sat back.... ...and watched. NAFTA is the worst Trade Deal ever made - terrible for labor - and Richard let it stand. No wonder unions are losing so much. The workers will vote for me in 2020 (lowest unemployment, most jobs ever), and should stop paying exorbitant $Dues, not worth it!” [Twitter, @realdonaldtrump, 9/2/19]
Trump: “If United Steelworkers 1999 Was Any Good, They Would Have Kept Those Jobs In Indiana. Spend More Time Working-Less Time Talking. Reduce Dues.” According to a tweet from Donald Trump, “If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues.”
[Twitter, @realdonaldtrump, 12/7/16]
Trump Attacked The President Of United Steelworkers 1999. According to a tweet from Donald Trump, “Chuck Jones, who is President of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrific job representing workers. No wonder companies flee country!”
[Twitter, @realdonaldtrump, 12/7/16]
Jones Criticized Trump For Claiming Trump Saved Over 1,000 Carrier Jobs. According to ABC News, “During the interview with Burnett, Jones took aim at Trump's claim of saving 1,100 Carrier jobs. ‘When Carrier announced the close-down the whole facility in February, they announced at that point in time the research and development jobs, about 350 of them, were going to remain here in Indianapolis,’ Jones said. ‘Then when Mr. Trump got involved, what the actual number of jobs saved is 730 bargaining unit jobs, the workers, the union members. And another 70 office, supervisory, clerical workers from management. And what they are doing is counting in 350-some-odd more that were never leaving this country at all. And I think he's did a lot of negotiations, and I have likewise. And if you are dealing with people's livelihoods, you sure in the world ought to know what the numbers are.’ And in an interview with CNNMoney earlier that day, Jones was more pointed. ‘He's lying his a-- off,’ he said about Trump's claim of saving 1,100 jobs. ‘That's not just my feeling. The numbers prove he's lying his a-- off. It's a damn shame when you come in and make a false statement like that.’” [ABC News, 12/8/16]
VIDEO: Trump Said He Was “So Disappointed” In Teamsters President James Hoffa. According to a Trump rally via YouTube, “TRUMP: And James Hoffa, I’m so disappointed in that guy. So, I called. I said, you know I’d love to get their support. Oh, I’m sorry sir. We’ve already endorsed sleepy Joe Biden. It’s like automatic.” [Trump Rally via YouTube, 9/21/20]
Trump Wrote That Predominantly Democratic Politicians Were Against Charter Schools Due To “Soft-Money Donations” From Teachers Unions. According to Business Insider, “Trump openly criticizes teachers unions, pointing to their stance against school-choice policies. ‘Our public schools have grown up in a competition-free zone, surrounded by a very high union wall,’ he wrote in his book ‘The America We Deserve.’ He continued: ‘Why aren't we shocked at the results? After all, teachers' unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85% of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers' unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.’” [Business Insider, 11/9/16]
VIDEO: Trump Claimed That Hillary Clinton Wanted To “Trap” Black And Latino Children In “Failing Government Schools” Because Of Teachers Unions. According to a Trump campaign rally in Pueblo, CO via YouTube, “TRUMP: She opposes school choice and she wants to trap African-American and Latino children into the failing government schools because she's getting a lot of money from the teachers’ unions. So, she doesn't want to have choice and she doesn't want to end Common Core.” [Trump Campaign Rally — Pueblo, CO via YouTube, 10/3/16]
VIDEO: Trump: “The Teachers’ Union Controls Biden.” According to Fox Business via YouTube, “TRUMP: Biden can't go away from the unions because he's got union— But I think I have a lot of union support. You want to know the truth. And by the way, teachers are teachers. We have to put them in the charter schools, you know, too. You can put them in the charter schools. You know, a teacher is a very valuable, incredible gift to our country. And I love the teachers. I wouldn't be talking to you if it weren't for some very good teachers. And let me just tell you they want to get rid of school choice. And school choice is the biggest civil rights gift of everything. They want to get rid of it because of the unions. The teachers’ union controls Biden and the radical left controls Biden.” [Fox Business via YouTube, 10/8/20]
VIDEO: Trump Said That Biden And Harris Will “Do Anything The Teachers Union Tells Them.” According to the Black News Channel via YouTube, “TRUMP: “And more than anybody else, the Black community wants that because they'll take their child out of a lousy school, a public school that's doing a terrible job, and they can put the child into a good school and a good school system. School choice, and yet Biden is totally against it. And his new person, Kamala Harris, is totally against that because they are just, they'll do anything the teachers’ union tells them. And you have such bad schools. And I think it's one of the biggest problems for the Black community. They are forced— their kids are forced to go into bad schools. And we're very close to getting school choice.” [Black News Channel via YouTube, 8/22/20]
VIDEO: Trump Called For An Investigation Into Alleged Collusion Between Democrats And Teachers’ Unions To Prevent In-Person Schooling. According to a Trump rally in Selma, NC via YouTube, “TRUMP: In addition, a Republican majority must investigate the collusion between Democrat Party politicians and the teachers’ unions to keep our children out of school for no scientific reason whatsoever. The irreversible harm the Democrat politicians did to our young people is unforgivable, and American voters will punish them at the ballot box this November.” [Trump Campaign Rally – Selma, NC via YouTube, 4/9/22]
VIDEO: Trump: “Joe Biden Sold Out America's Children To The Teachers Unions.” According to the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference via YouTube, “TRUMP: The Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border, while at the same time millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe Biden's anti-science school closures. Think of it. We're educating students on the book. But our own people, children of our citizens and citizens themselves, are not getting the education that they deserve. There's no reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not be back in school immediately. The only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe Biden sold out America's children to the teachers’ unions. His position is morally inexcusable, you know that. Joe Biden is shamefully betrayed America's youth and he is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for whatsoever.” [Conservative Political Action Conference 2021 via YouTube, 7/11/21]
VIDEO: Trump Claimed That Public Schools Were “Being Destroyed” by Teachers Unions. According to Fox Business via YouTube, “TRUMP: We have charter schools that are so successful, you wouldn't even believe it. That the same student in a charter school is like a great student. You put them in that public school system that's being destroyed by the unions. Just absolutely what's happening there.” [Fox Business via YouTube, 10/8/20]
VIDEO: Trump Said That Teachers Union Leadership Were Destroying The Public School System. According to the Moms for Liberty Annual Summit via YouTube, “TRUMP: At the same time, I refuse to abandon our public school systems as leftist dominated systems. They’re leftist dominated or much worse than that. You see what's going on with— And it's really the heads of unions and others that are just destroying the system. And it came out very much during COVID with the decisions that were being made and it was very, very sad to watch and very bad for our country.” [Moms for Liberty Annual Summit via YouTube, 6/20/23]
VIDEO: Trump Said That The Conservative Movement Needed To “Liberate” Children From “Marxist Teachers Unions.” According to the Turning Point Student Action Summit via YouTube, “TRUMP: You would not trust these people to babysit your children for 20 minutes. And why should we then let them educate millions of Americans students six hours a day, year after year after year? Whatever it takes, the conservative movement must liberate America’s children from the captivity of these Marxist teachers’ unions. What they're doing to our children and to our country is incredible, incredible. This is a matter of national survival. If we don't fix this, our country is going to be in a very sad state. It already is. Our country has never been in a position like this before. It happened during a short period of time.” [Turning Point Student Action Summit via YouTube, 7/23/22]
Trump Criticized Teachers’ Unions For Opposing Charter Schools. According to Business Insider, “Trump openly criticizes teachers unions, pointing to their stance against school-choice policies. ‘Our public schools have grown up in a competition-free zone, surrounded by a very high union wall,’ he wrote in his book ‘The America We Deserve.’ He continued: ‘Why aren't we shocked at the results? After all, teachers' unions are motivated by the same desires that move the rest of us. With more than 85% of their soft-money donations going to Democrats, teachers' unions know they can count on the politician they back to take a strong stand against school choice.’” [Business Insider, 11/9/16]