Working People Deserve Better Than Donald Trump

USW International Secretary-Treasurer Stan Johnson and progressive talk show host Leslie Marshall this week discussed Donald Trump and the harm he would inflict on the American economy should he be elected president.

Johnson said that Trump, who’s a master at saying whatever his audience wants to hear regardless of past stances or overt hypocrisies, has tapped into a frustration that many Americans feel. Long decades of stagnant wages and uncertain economic prospects have left ordinary people scared.

Trump may bluster about “making America great again,” yet “if you listen closely to what he says and when he says what he says, you can see he has a propensity against working people of all kinds,” said Johnson.

For example, Trump’s comments that wages in America are too high or that auto makers should take their facilities to low-wage states to save on labor costs betray Trump’s anti-worker agenda.

“Trump’s plan is going to benefit the millionaires and billionaires at the expense of everyone else,” said Johnson.

Trump’s refusal to come clean with his own record, including what’s in his tax returns, offers further proof that the Republican presidential candidate is looking out only for his own interests: preserving the tax loopholes that keep him and others like him extremely wealthy.

“He is running for the president of the United States,” said Johnson. “The job of the president is not to take care of the rich and the powerful. It is to take care of the masses, the citizens of this country.”

 

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