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He has a verified record of not paying tradespeople he contracted. That alone should be enough.
But besides that, we have a record of his economic policies, a mixed bag at best. The tariffs, for example, which he's still talking about now. They were a disaster, more farm bankruptcies under Trump than anytime since Bush's recession, directly due to the tariffs. And then he tries to mediate the damage by borrowing money to pay off farmers.
Then his signature tax cuts. You don't cut taxes during a period of economic growth. You cut taxes when growth is in decline. What happened is exactly what economics predicts, you get a short sugar high, then the economy returns to base level. And the wealthiest rake in money from stock buy backs. Companies were already sitting on record cash reserves.
Economically, he's little more than a moron.
I know, it's been a problem for democrats as long as I've been following politics (40 years).
Investment is for long term growth, which helps later, and that generally describes democratic policies. Republican policies are short term and effect people quickly (generalizing, of course)
So Trump cuts taxes, people see more in a paycheck, but there's no lasting benefit in the larger economy, it's a temporary sugar high.
It's like if you went to those union workers and asked 'Do you invest in your kids? Send them to school, pay for things now to make their life better later? Or do you spend every raise you get on a new car?'.
National economic policy is like that. I know there's increasing debt, and people fear raising taxes, and there's plenty of truth in all of that.
I personally want my taxes going to investment in people, not helping the wealthy get wealthier.
Not to mention he helped kill OTR trucking. His tax cut made per diem taxable, so being efficient and basically getting a bonus to your income from per diem now pays for a millionaire's private jet tax cut.
On second thought in light of recent events, maybe Trump isn't a billionaire, but he definitely commits fraud and screws over working class people like a billionaire. And despite saying that immigrants aren't people, [he has a history of exploiting undocumented workers for his own profit.](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers)
If you work for a living, please make sure you and working friends and family [register to vote](https://vote.gov)
Remember that Joe Biden is first president to ever [show up to a picket line and support striking workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXnFAR52yI&t=99s).
I used to have a small business. I never had poor people beat me up over price, and I never had poor people not pay me. Rich people I had to be careful around because they would fuck me over in a hearbeat.
My buddy is a contractor who specializes in building luxury homes. He’s fucking amazing at it and had a great crew. He had to stop building luxury homes after the 10th or so rich person refused to pay him and tied him up in years of litigation over frivolous shit.
He went back to home renovations and refused to do any kind of renovations for people who made above a certain amount because in his words “they will try to find any excuse not to pay you”.
Yes! His "bury you in court" mentality has ruined lives.
There are SO many folks speaking about how he ruined their family's finances by convincing them to take out loans to do work for him and then turned around and refused to pay stating "Sue me".
Fucking "millionaire" scab cockroach.
Might explain the thousands of lawsuits he's had against him as a businessman. Somehow his followers can't put the pieces together and realize he's a grifter.
He's been sued 4500x for non-payment of goods and services! He's personally bankrupted small businesses/contractors. I will never understand why or how people support him. I understand the 1% supporting him, he cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the middle-class? Wtf?
People supporting him I get, they think he hates the same people they do. That's just simple stupidity. I can understand being stupid and hateful.
What makes **absolutely**no sense is why anyone would do business with someone who's been sued over 4000 times for non-payment.
“People supporting him I get, they think he hates the same people they do” the thing they don’t understand though, is that he hates his supporters too. Time after time, he’s said they look like trash, even on the day they stormed the capitol for him.
I remember listening to NPR before the 2016 election. They were interviewing a contractor who had been personally stiffed by Trump. At the end of the interview they asked who he was voting for and he said he was voting for Trump. So frustrating.
>People like Trump are well known for screwing over working people.
What, like this? https://theweek.com/speedreads/651801/music-store-owner-sold-trump-100000-worth-pianos-trump-refused-pay
If I contract for a rich person, I would always require most, if not all, of the payment up front, because I'm not getting fucking scammed by those bastards.
Yeah my buddy definitely was a bit gullible and isn’t completely off the hook for that happening to him and he admits that. He comes from a blue collar family and had a lot of handshake deals. He learned his lesson. I believe he was starting construction with material cost plus 10% something like that.
He’s much happier these days doing reno’s for working/middle class families.
My old company (went under from lockdowns) would take 50% up front, any changes to the plan required a full stop, and a change order drafted up and signed before changes were enacted, until you legally signed we weren’t continuing, or changing the existing plans.
On larger jobs we’d take 3 payments of 33% paid at specified points, with final payment taken slightly before completion and contractually agreed upon. I did this because 1 customer refused to pay, so I decided that work doesn’t get completed on big jobs until we get the last amount, it’s usually small finish work like basic trim or something stupid, but just enough that the customer doesn’t have a complete job until payment was made.
Trump is well known for stiffing contractors specifically. And he always targets small ones, because they're more likely to ignore the warnings about him because they think the opportunity and money are "just too good." Then, not only does he not pay, but he smears their reputation.
His tactic, implicitly and explicitly, is "sure, go ahead and take me to court. you'll be bankrupt before a judge even hears you."
> His tactic, implicitly and explicitly, is "sure, go ahead and take me to court. you'll be bankrupt before a judge even hears you."
That’s exactly what happened to my buddy. He took a few of them to court and realized that’s what they’re doing and he managed to recoup some of his losses so he chalked up to a learning curve and stopped doing business with rich people/hired a lawyer to draft contracts for him. I love the guy but he was a bit aloof about that shit.
I have a small business right now and that observation has not changed. There have been a few exceptions, but by-and-large, rich people are cheap and greedy. My best customers are the people who work for a living and understand that I, too, work for a living. I will say that my biggest job to date was a ridiculously rich couple, private jet rich, and they didn’t give me a hard time at all. They wanted my recommendations and went with everything, cost never was discussed. But, he also built his businesses from scratch. One of his businesses is a margarita mix company that everyone here has probably heard of.
I'm literally in my house having zoom meetings all day right now surfing youtube and reddit. Your comment convinced me to take a pack of beer up to my mechanic over lunch for friday.
This has been my same experience. The clients who are the worst at paying are doctors and lawyers and millionaires. The plumber or the teacher or whoever always pays me.
As someone who grew up in the NJ/NYC area, literally all he was famous for was his bankruptcies and all the clients he didn't bother paying.
How any working person looks at that and says "There's my champion" is something I will never understand.
Trump has been sued by unions since the 80s. Why? For hiring undocumented immigrants to build his buildings. And he underpaid them to boot.
Fun fact about Trump is his penchant for hiring undocumented immigrants… while his entire presidential platform is anti immigrant.
https://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
Wow I totally forgot about that and had to look it up:
[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers)
>Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today. Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs running—but somebody’s got to do it!
>
>The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.”
>
>Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course.
>
>Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.
>
>Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.”
>
>It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country
>
>While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to complain if treated poorly.
>something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with
DJT could marry both Nancy Pelosi & Hillary Clinton and announcr Barak Obama as his running mate tomorrow, and none of his voters would leave him.
It doesn't matter what he does or says anymore, because his base is now a cult
He isn’t a billionaire and has never been one. Just another lie that has been told to the masses to inflate his persona.
Despite this fact, I agree that he behaves like a billionaire as it relates to giving the workers the shaft!
This fact never gets old. He’s literally failed at everything EXCEPT running for president. What the fuck are we doing voting for the likes of him? Astounding.
Trump spectacularly mismanaged his money and we're supposed to trust this guy with our economy? Remember what happened the first time we trust him? He destroyed the progress we made the last time Obama had to clean up after Bush.
Bush mismanagement lead to the great recession. Obama cleans it up. Trump comes in and mismanages the pandemic. Biden cleans it up. Wake up!
Don't forget about the Clinton Admin fixing the Regan/Bush economy (although it was really a bad Regan economy & Clinton had the good sense to continue Bush Sr's sound Econ policies he'd attacked during the election after his surprise win in '92. Clinton really was a shady asshole! Haha), and Carter taking the political hit & raising taxes & interest rates to fix the awful Nixon/Ford Admin economy of the mid-70's.
We really have not had a competent Republican Exec branch since The Eisenhower Administration.
Most sources actually say he inherited 413 million. A measly 413 million. The average American would have wasted it on avocado toast and Starbucks but not him! He turned it into enough debt to bankrupt 6 business enterprises and even managed to bankrupt a casino! That takes real talent that most people just don’t understand. /s
Man. If I was given 413 million , I'd find myself a nice company to invest for me in low risk funds or stocks that pay dividends and just live off that.
Why the fuck would you work? Have them get you even a 5% return and you live off say 1%. That's still 4 million a year to live off from a fund that would never deplete.
You see… you’re smart. And not a greedy dipshit. Those are some big differences in life views.
I’d also do the same thing. I just want a comfortable life. And I could be incredibly INCREDIBLY comfortable with a cool million a year lol
Trump never had to work a day in his life. He doesn't wake up at 6am, make his breakfast, drive to work, come home exhausted to make his dinner, take care of his kids and clean the house. He simply buys someone to do all that for him and buys up more to increase his wealth. And yet he is even shockingly bad at that.
Yet Trump can't even pay $464 million he owes for committing fraud and screwing over businesses full of working people. Why can't a billionaire who said hes worth more than $10 billion pay a measily $464 million?
My guess would be that he has the money but is refusing to pay because he’s a step ahead of the game and already knows how he’s going to get out of it. This is the same reason everyone says he’s broke but he still lives like he’s filthy rich. He knows how to work the paperwork.
> On second thought in light of recent events, maybe Trump isn't a billionaire
He's just an advanced version of his supporters. He's just further along the "fake it til you make it" line. He supports real billionaires just like his supporters support anyone they think is a billionaire, and especially ones that they can identify with in their fear and hatred of the other.
Exactly. I actually like Joe Biden. First president to ever [show up to a picket line and support striking workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXnFAR52yI&t=99s).
Anyone who works in the trades, union or not, should despise Trump. He's fucked over sooo many contractors throughout his life. But yes, Union workers who are Republicans or, worse, also Trump supporters, just doesn't really make any logical sense to me. But then again, there are LGBTQ folk who are also Republicans and Trump supporters, so you know, we like in a non sensible world.
Sad but true. Also, lots of people don't want to take personal responsibility for their short comings, always need someone to blame for their "bad luck". Republicans love blaming everyone and anyone for their problems. It's their one consistent party value "everyone else is at fault but us"
ya, it just absolutely leaves me gutted. i don't understand and have tried to explain to them how for dollars he will gladly shit on then, but they still blindly follow him. the latter part of what you said is golden!! i totally agree. the cognitive dissonance has been strong in all these folks since 1/20/2017.
Their love for a straight white America is more important to them. The majority of union people I know love the hate for the libs. They know that chump will bring back jobs and get rid of foreign steel coming in. Chump will keep the brown people from stealing the jobs and raping white women. Same union asshats making 150k a year being stoned or drunk half their shifts.
I've met so many union member benefiting from being in a union and bitch about it, it's mind blowing. I have a libertarian friend that works at the irs too (lolllllll). He just got a raise and complained about it. He complained about a raise. More money. The guy who "doesn't believe in taxes", that works at the irs, complained about a fucking raise living in the capitlist society he champions for. People are just stupid.
It's so bizarre. For as long as I can remember, Dems supported and were pro union, and Repubs were against and try to stop unions. Like, as party platforms.
Sure, that's funny to you and I. But this man isn't speaking to us. He's speaking to people who believe that Trump *is* a billionaire. And he's trying to tell them, well fine, if that's true, then why do you think a wealthy elite like him cares about working-class union people?
It's an inherently contradictory position to hold, and he's trying to help them to that conclusion.
Donald Trump didn’t pay his contractors no way this is breaking news that definitely hasn’t been an ongoing pattern since his inception as a “rich guy”
Scabby Scab Donny Don. That’s what people say. And so MANY people. I would never say that, but everyone else is saying it. Scabby Scab Donny Doo Doopy Doo. [slighty shakes head]. It’s a terrible, terrible thing. Y’know? To be called Scabby Scab Donny Droopy Drawers like that.
I’m a member of the UAW. I work at a truck manufacturing plant that’s located a few miles from Charlotte. The former UAW president is from my local. We have a weird mixture of people. We have people who drive an hour in from the rural areas and we have the people from Charlotte. You can imagine how each group votes. The people from the rural areas are die hard Trump supporters. If you want to start an argument tell them how Obama visited our plant and saved it from closing with his stimulus package in 09.
It was so infuriating when Biden went to talk to union members on the picket line in a historic first for a president showing support for organized labor, and Trump went to a non-union shop nearby, and the news covered it as "can you believe Trump went to the picket line to win over working class union members?"
Listen again. Hitler isn't mentioned.
He's a scab.
Anti-worker, pro-corporate. Hell, the entitled bastard regularly stiffs the contractors he hires. That alone should be reason enough for a working man not to vote for him.
Ever meet a rich guy who's a deadbeat to workers? And *like him*? Trust him?
Me neither.
They’re only 3 1/2 years apart in age and trump’s cognitive decline is far more advanced than Biden’s. Just listen to any Trump speech from the last year, the man has lost it
tale as old as time. How is it that we live in a supposed democracy for hundreds of years and we STILL have to fight for fair wages and shit. Like, dawn of america, building railroads, building sky scrapers, yet we still need unions because people in power won't put laws into place protecting the workers from the "job creators"
Does anybody else find it odd that a union boss (notoriously corrupt by job title alone) is lambasting anyone else?
Don't misunderstand me. Unions are, at their core, well intentioned, but traditionally, the leadership are corrupt and only help themselves.
Trump is blue collar like all of us! He pulled himself up by his own bootstraps and a million dollar (actually closer to 60 million) loan from his father. Give him a break!
It honestly baffles me that people are so brainwashed and can’t see this. I know that he is far from the only politician that only cares about the rich, but the fact that so many blue collar workers and lower middle class/poor people worship this con artist… it just has never made since. He will never fight for anyone’s interests other than his own, which are the interests of a billionaire.
But MAGAts don't care because he says racist and fascist shit that they love so much. It's crazy how the average MAGAt is working class and they will vote against their best interests every day of the week due to their fear and hatred..
Trump and the republicans [shut down the border deal](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden_n_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46) Biden and democrats tried to pass.
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden\_n\_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden_n_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46)
[https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229602743/how-the-republican-support-for-the-border-bill-evaporated](https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229602743/how-the-republican-support-for-the-border-bill-evaporated)
[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers)
>Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today. Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs running—but somebody’s got to do it!
>
>The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.”
>
>Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course.
>
>Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials.
>
>Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.”
>
>It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country
>
>While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to complain if treated poorly.
Donald Trump is a piece of frumunda cheese. Orange frumunda cheese. Donald Trump appears to be turning into the animated judge in the pink Floyd film The Wall.
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He has a verified record of not paying tradespeople he contracted. That alone should be enough. But besides that, we have a record of his economic policies, a mixed bag at best. The tariffs, for example, which he's still talking about now. They were a disaster, more farm bankruptcies under Trump than anytime since Bush's recession, directly due to the tariffs. And then he tries to mediate the damage by borrowing money to pay off farmers. Then his signature tax cuts. You don't cut taxes during a period of economic growth. You cut taxes when growth is in decline. What happened is exactly what economics predicts, you get a short sugar high, then the economy returns to base level. And the wealthiest rake in money from stock buy backs. Companies were already sitting on record cash reserves. Economically, he's little more than a moron.
Economically he’s a patsy for the richest of the rich . A puppet in a big game that’s fucking over the common man .
He's a patsy for quite a few people. None of whom have the best interests of the US as a consideration.
A loud mouth moron who comes across as someone with a plan, but there is none.
I dont understand how, but just about every blue-collar union worker I know can't wait to vote for Trump.
I know, it's been a problem for democrats as long as I've been following politics (40 years). Investment is for long term growth, which helps later, and that generally describes democratic policies. Republican policies are short term and effect people quickly (generalizing, of course) So Trump cuts taxes, people see more in a paycheck, but there's no lasting benefit in the larger economy, it's a temporary sugar high. It's like if you went to those union workers and asked 'Do you invest in your kids? Send them to school, pay for things now to make their life better later? Or do you spend every raise you get on a new car?'. National economic policy is like that. I know there's increasing debt, and people fear raising taxes, and there's plenty of truth in all of that. I personally want my taxes going to investment in people, not helping the wealthy get wealthier.
>Economically, he's little more than a moron. It's probably quicker to list the ways in which he isn't a moron.
Lol talking about the fake Netflix documentary.
Not to mention he helped kill OTR trucking. His tax cut made per diem taxable, so being efficient and basically getting a bonus to your income from per diem now pays for a millionaire's private jet tax cut.
On second thought in light of recent events, maybe Trump isn't a billionaire, but he definitely commits fraud and screws over working class people like a billionaire. And despite saying that immigrants aren't people, [he has a history of exploiting undocumented workers for his own profit.](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers) If you work for a living, please make sure you and working friends and family [register to vote](https://vote.gov) Remember that Joe Biden is first president to ever [show up to a picket line and support striking workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXnFAR52yI&t=99s).
I used to have a small business. I never had poor people beat me up over price, and I never had poor people not pay me. Rich people I had to be careful around because they would fuck me over in a hearbeat.
My buddy is a contractor who specializes in building luxury homes. He’s fucking amazing at it and had a great crew. He had to stop building luxury homes after the 10th or so rich person refused to pay him and tied him up in years of litigation over frivolous shit. He went back to home renovations and refused to do any kind of renovations for people who made above a certain amount because in his words “they will try to find any excuse not to pay you”.
Yup. People like Trump are well known for screwing over working people.
Yes! His "bury you in court" mentality has ruined lives. There are SO many folks speaking about how he ruined their family's finances by convincing them to take out loans to do work for him and then turned around and refused to pay stating "Sue me". Fucking "millionaire" scab cockroach.
Might explain the thousands of lawsuits he's had against him as a businessman. Somehow his followers can't put the pieces together and realize he's a grifter.
He's been sued 4500x for non-payment of goods and services! He's personally bankrupted small businesses/contractors. I will never understand why or how people support him. I understand the 1% supporting him, he cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. But the middle-class? Wtf?
People supporting him I get, they think he hates the same people they do. That's just simple stupidity. I can understand being stupid and hateful. What makes **absolutely**no sense is why anyone would do business with someone who's been sued over 4000 times for non-payment.
“People supporting him I get, they think he hates the same people they do” the thing they don’t understand though, is that he hates his supporters too. Time after time, he’s said they look like trash, even on the day they stormed the capitol for him.
I remember listening to NPR before the 2016 election. They were interviewing a contractor who had been personally stiffed by Trump. At the end of the interview they asked who he was voting for and he said he was voting for Trump. So frustrating.
It's bonkers!
yet trump has a cult following. The world is a fucked up place.
>People like Trump are well known for screwing over working people. What, like this? https://theweek.com/speedreads/651801/music-store-owner-sold-trump-100000-worth-pianos-trump-refused-pay
If I contract for a rich person, I would always require most, if not all, of the payment up front, because I'm not getting fucking scammed by those bastards.
Yeah my buddy definitely was a bit gullible and isn’t completely off the hook for that happening to him and he admits that. He comes from a blue collar family and had a lot of handshake deals. He learned his lesson. I believe he was starting construction with material cost plus 10% something like that. He’s much happier these days doing reno’s for working/middle class families.
My old company (went under from lockdowns) would take 50% up front, any changes to the plan required a full stop, and a change order drafted up and signed before changes were enacted, until you legally signed we weren’t continuing, or changing the existing plans. On larger jobs we’d take 3 payments of 33% paid at specified points, with final payment taken slightly before completion and contractually agreed upon. I did this because 1 customer refused to pay, so I decided that work doesn’t get completed on big jobs until we get the last amount, it’s usually small finish work like basic trim or something stupid, but just enough that the customer doesn’t have a complete job until payment was made.
Trump is well known for stiffing contractors specifically. And he always targets small ones, because they're more likely to ignore the warnings about him because they think the opportunity and money are "just too good." Then, not only does he not pay, but he smears their reputation. His tactic, implicitly and explicitly, is "sure, go ahead and take me to court. you'll be bankrupt before a judge even hears you."
> His tactic, implicitly and explicitly, is "sure, go ahead and take me to court. you'll be bankrupt before a judge even hears you." That’s exactly what happened to my buddy. He took a few of them to court and realized that’s what they’re doing and he managed to recoup some of his losses so he chalked up to a learning curve and stopped doing business with rich people/hired a lawyer to draft contracts for him. I love the guy but he was a bit aloof about that shit.
I realize I'm an unbearable pedant but do you mean naive? Aloof means standoffish and cold.
Well apparently I’ve been using aloof incorrectly my entire adult life 😅
It's cool, we were all naive about aloof at one point ;)
Sure thing bud 👍🏻 Is what I would say if I was being aloof 😎
How do you think they get rich in the first place? Certainly not by paying people what they should.
They would rather pay their lawyer than the honest hard working small business.
You could kindly ask if they would rather pay their doctor instead of the lawyer.
I have a small business right now and that observation has not changed. There have been a few exceptions, but by-and-large, rich people are cheap and greedy. My best customers are the people who work for a living and understand that I, too, work for a living. I will say that my biggest job to date was a ridiculously rich couple, private jet rich, and they didn’t give me a hard time at all. They wanted my recommendations and went with everything, cost never was discussed. But, he also built his businesses from scratch. One of his businesses is a margarita mix company that everyone here has probably heard of.
Working in their homes sweating my ass off as they do zoom meetings and always the least grateful at the end of the project
I'm literally in my house having zoom meetings all day right now surfing youtube and reddit. Your comment convinced me to take a pack of beer up to my mechanic over lunch for friday.
This has been my same experience. The clients who are the worst at paying are doctors and lawyers and millionaires. The plumber or the teacher or whoever always pays me.
As someone who grew up in the NJ/NYC area, literally all he was famous for was his bankruptcies and all the clients he didn't bother paying. How any working person looks at that and says "There's my champion" is something I will never understand.
“But he’s not a politician!”
Trump has been sued by unions since the 80s. Why? For hiring undocumented immigrants to build his buildings. And he underpaid them to boot. Fun fact about Trump is his penchant for hiring undocumented immigrants… while his entire presidential platform is anti immigrant. https://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
Wow I totally forgot about that and had to look it up: [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers) >Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today. Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs running—but somebody’s got to do it! > >The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.” > >Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course. > >Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials. > >Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.” > >It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country > >While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to complain if treated poorly.
>something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with DJT could marry both Nancy Pelosi & Hillary Clinton and announcr Barak Obama as his running mate tomorrow, and none of his voters would leave him. It doesn't matter what he does or says anymore, because his base is now a cult
He isn’t a billionaire and has never been one. Just another lie that has been told to the masses to inflate his persona. Despite this fact, I agree that he behaves like a billionaire as it relates to giving the workers the shaft!
If he had put his inheritance in an S&P 500 fund and not touched it for 40 years he would have 45 billion right now.
This fact never gets old. He’s literally failed at everything EXCEPT running for president. What the fuck are we doing voting for the likes of him? Astounding.
He didn't even win the popular vote and never will
Trump spectacularly mismanaged his money and we're supposed to trust this guy with our economy? Remember what happened the first time we trust him? He destroyed the progress we made the last time Obama had to clean up after Bush. Bush mismanagement lead to the great recession. Obama cleans it up. Trump comes in and mismanages the pandemic. Biden cleans it up. Wake up!
Don't forget about the Clinton Admin fixing the Regan/Bush economy (although it was really a bad Regan economy & Clinton had the good sense to continue Bush Sr's sound Econ policies he'd attacked during the election after his surprise win in '92. Clinton really was a shady asshole! Haha), and Carter taking the political hit & raising taxes & interest rates to fix the awful Nixon/Ford Admin economy of the mid-70's. We really have not had a competent Republican Exec branch since The Eisenhower Administration.
Untrue. His father definitely left him over a billion. His greatest success was playing a rich guy on TV.
Most sources actually say he inherited 413 million. A measly 413 million. The average American would have wasted it on avocado toast and Starbucks but not him! He turned it into enough debt to bankrupt 6 business enterprises and even managed to bankrupt a casino! That takes real talent that most people just don’t understand. /s
Man. If I was given 413 million , I'd find myself a nice company to invest for me in low risk funds or stocks that pay dividends and just live off that. Why the fuck would you work? Have them get you even a 5% return and you live off say 1%. That's still 4 million a year to live off from a fund that would never deplete.
You see… you’re smart. And not a greedy dipshit. Those are some big differences in life views. I’d also do the same thing. I just want a comfortable life. And I could be incredibly INCREDIBLY comfortable with a cool million a year lol
Trump never had to work a day in his life. He doesn't wake up at 6am, make his breakfast, drive to work, come home exhausted to make his dinner, take care of his kids and clean the house. He simply buys someone to do all that for him and buys up more to increase his wealth. And yet he is even shockingly bad at that.
That was just the cash. He also left him tens of thousands of NYC rental properties. Those alone were PROBABLY worth a billion by now.
Yet Trump can't even pay $464 million he owes for committing fraud and screwing over businesses full of working people. Why can't a billionaire who said hes worth more than $10 billion pay a measily $464 million?
He's not a billionaire anymore he's very bad with money. But his father wasn't shockingly
>He's not a billionaire anymore he's very bad with money. Exaclty, and this is the guy we're supposed to trust with the economy?
My guess would be that he has the money but is refusing to pay because he’s a step ahead of the game and already knows how he’s going to get out of it. This is the same reason everyone says he’s broke but he still lives like he’s filthy rich. He knows how to work the paperwork.
I was about to say, the only inaccurate thing in this video is Trump being a billionaire.
> On second thought in light of recent events, maybe Trump isn't a billionaire He's just an advanced version of his supporters. He's just further along the "fake it til you make it" line. He supports real billionaires just like his supporters support anyone they think is a billionaire, and especially ones that they can identify with in their fear and hatred of the other.
Billionaire???
Wannabe billionaire*
Wannabellionaire
Download temu and shop like a billionaire
Wanna be a billionaire so fucking bad!
Yeah, the biggest billionaire. The best. You’ve never seen a billionaire like that billionaire.
Theoretical billionaire
Theoretical patriot
He identifies as a Billionaire Same thing right?
See the truth social deal just got approved? Unfortunately, he’ll make over a billion off that.
Ex-billionaire
And so is any "union member" who supports him or the Republican party. Fuck each and every one of you scabs.
Exactly. I actually like Joe Biden. First president to ever [show up to a picket line and support striking workers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXnFAR52yI&t=99s).
Most Republicans are uneducated and misguided. Never met one swayed by logic lol
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the average person he was looking out for them.
Hey man, the devil's not that bad and doesn't deserve to be compared to trump
True, I don't remember the devil attacking unions or saying immigrants aren't people.
The second greatest trick devil donald ever pulled was convincing the average person he was a billionaire.
yup. never understood my friends in the union that support that diaper wearing pinecone. a billionaire tho.... I'd stop myself at calling him that.
Anyone who works in the trades, union or not, should despise Trump. He's fucked over sooo many contractors throughout his life. But yes, Union workers who are Republicans or, worse, also Trump supporters, just doesn't really make any logical sense to me. But then again, there are LGBTQ folk who are also Republicans and Trump supporters, so you know, we like in a non sensible world.
There are people they hate more than they love themselves.
Sad but true. Also, lots of people don't want to take personal responsibility for their short comings, always need someone to blame for their "bad luck". Republicans love blaming everyone and anyone for their problems. It's their one consistent party value "everyone else is at fault but us"
ya, it just absolutely leaves me gutted. i don't understand and have tried to explain to them how for dollars he will gladly shit on then, but they still blindly follow him. the latter part of what you said is golden!! i totally agree. the cognitive dissonance has been strong in all these folks since 1/20/2017.
Their love for a straight white America is more important to them. The majority of union people I know love the hate for the libs. They know that chump will bring back jobs and get rid of foreign steel coming in. Chump will keep the brown people from stealing the jobs and raping white women. Same union asshats making 150k a year being stoned or drunk half their shifts.
Republicans destroyed education. That's why those people exist.
Definitely the truth!
I've met so many union member benefiting from being in a union and bitch about it, it's mind blowing. I have a libertarian friend that works at the irs too (lolllllll). He just got a raise and complained about it. He complained about a raise. More money. The guy who "doesn't believe in taxes", that works at the irs, complained about a fucking raise living in the capitlist society he champions for. People are just stupid.
It's so bizarre. For as long as I can remember, Dems supported and were pro union, and Repubs were against and try to stop unions. Like, as party platforms.
“Donald Trump is a billionaire” KEKW
Bitch better have my money
Don’t act like you don’t know me.
Trump may have had millions, but I don't know if he's actually ever been a billionaire, he filed for bankruptcy 3 times.
Sure, that's funny to you and I. But this man isn't speaking to us. He's speaking to people who believe that Trump *is* a billionaire. And he's trying to tell them, well fine, if that's true, then why do you think a wealthy elite like him cares about working-class union people? It's an inherently contradictory position to hold, and he's trying to help them to that conclusion.
He doesn't pay his contractors. Any working man who would vote for him knowing *only that* is a sucker.
Donald Trump didn’t pay his contractors no way this is breaking news that definitely hasn’t been an ongoing pattern since his inception as a “rich guy”
Love this...call that disgusting traitor out
If Trump isn't a traitor, who is? He's worse than Benedict Arnold, Nixon and the confederacy in terms of betraying democracy and working class people.
As a veteran, Trump is disgusting and I will never forgive him for Jan 6.
Thank you for your service and your patriotism. Do you have a cashapp?
Thank you! Much appreciated!
How can anyone in a union think anything else. Like cognitive dissonance much?
How can any working person think anything else?
We urgently need more of this.
Yeah, fucking eight years ago. How is this a newer narrative? It was painfully obvious.
It’s. That. Simple. C’mon voters. Put down the hate and propaganda, and see this scab for who he is.
He’s not wrong.
A billionaire who literally begs for small dollars from people living paycheck to paycheck. Let's be more accurate.
Trump has as much as said all these things about himself as well. Not that his voters could recognize it.
Donnie is a scab
💯
Scabby Scab Donny Don. That’s what people say. And so MANY people. I would never say that, but everyone else is saying it. Scabby Scab Donny Doo Doopy Doo. [slighty shakes head]. It’s a terrible, terrible thing. Y’know? To be called Scabby Scab Donny Droopy Drawers like that.
Not news. Been a scab for 50 years.
Trump visits Union halls while appointing anti-Union judges
But he blames different looking people for my problems
When Trump finally dies in betting money that his followers gonna be like “he died for our sins”
I’m a member of the UAW. I work at a truck manufacturing plant that’s located a few miles from Charlotte. The former UAW president is from my local. We have a weird mixture of people. We have people who drive an hour in from the rural areas and we have the people from Charlotte. You can imagine how each group votes. The people from the rural areas are die hard Trump supporters. If you want to start an argument tell them how Obama visited our plant and saved it from closing with his stimulus package in 09.
Incredibly based
Why TikTok cringe. The UAW is correct. Trump is an anti union SCAB. A bum.
I've noticed this sub is no longer just for "cringe"-- not sure when that happened, but it happened.
Pretty sure DJT couldn't squeeze a zit.
NO FUCKINH SHIT
No lies detected.
SCAB SCAB SCAB
Shawn coming in hot.
 Workers voting conservative
Everyone in NYC knows Trump's a fucking wage thief
lol imagine calling Trump a billionaire in 2024. Broke boy Donny
Trump has always been a SCAB !!! He’s never been a big union fan.🤨
And these union members vote Republican over and over.
Sadly this is probably falling on deaf ears. They will vote against their own interests.
Shawn Fain nailed it. He’s exactly correct. It’s amazing this wasn’t obvious to everyone. But trump is a pro con man. He’s been such all his life.
It was so infuriating when Biden went to talk to union members on the picket line in a historic first for a president showing support for organized labor, and Trump went to a non-union shop nearby, and the news covered it as "can you believe Trump went to the picket line to win over working class union members?"
I love seeing anti trump stuff on social media. Gives me hope that America won’t put that rat bastard back in office.
his poor throat!
Nothing cringe about this at all, it’s 100% true
The man looks mad.
Lmao. “He’s Hitler!!!” Wait. Wasn’t that Bush?
Listen again. Hitler isn't mentioned. He's a scab. Anti-worker, pro-corporate. Hell, the entitled bastard regularly stiffs the contractors he hires. That alone should be reason enough for a working man not to vote for him. Ever meet a rich guy who's a deadbeat to workers? And *like him*? Trust him? Me neither.
This guy needs to be president
That is offensive to scabs. A scab protects a wound from infection, Donald Trump is the infection.
How the working class supports, "grab America by her \_\_\_", "take the guns first" Trump is beyond me.
Moronic and auto workers know this. We're almost all for Trump.
If only we had a pick other than a crook or the crypt keeper
They’re only 3 1/2 years apart in age and trump’s cognitive decline is far more advanced than Biden’s. Just listen to any Trump speech from the last year, the man has lost it
He was right about everything but the billionaire part...
tale as old as time. How is it that we live in a supposed democracy for hundreds of years and we STILL have to fight for fair wages and shit. Like, dawn of america, building railroads, building sky scrapers, yet we still need unions because people in power won't put laws into place protecting the workers from the "job creators"
He has fucked over thousands of workers
Is this the getting paid millions to not help the workers?
Does anybody else find it odd that a union boss (notoriously corrupt by job title alone) is lambasting anyone else? Don't misunderstand me. Unions are, at their core, well intentioned, but traditionally, the leadership are corrupt and only help themselves.
This guy needs to run for President Fain 2028
Yeah - Trump sucks and will kill this country... again!
Trump is blue collar like all of us! He pulled himself up by his own bootstraps and a million dollar (actually closer to 60 million) loan from his father. Give him a break!
Donald Trump is not a scab. Scabs work for a living. Trump is the living embodiment of every reason unions are needed.
It honestly baffles me that people are so brainwashed and can’t see this. I know that he is far from the only politician that only cares about the rich, but the fact that so many blue collar workers and lower middle class/poor people worship this con artist… it just has never made since. He will never fight for anyone’s interests other than his own, which are the interests of a billionaire.
This guy should run for office
But MAGAts don't care because he says racist and fascist shit that they love so much. It's crazy how the average MAGAt is working class and they will vote against their best interests every day of the week due to their fear and hatred..
Ain't nothing cringe about this cold hard truth.
*Thank you, Captain Obvious* Yet it seems MAGA needs it in simple terms.
Unregulated labour from open borders is the biggest issue impacting American Wages. Demand and supply.
Trump and the republicans [shut down the border deal](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden_n_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46) Biden and democrats tried to pass. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden\_n\_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-border-deal-republicans-biden_n_65b18fa0e4b0166fc770ae46) [https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229602743/how-the-republican-support-for-the-border-bill-evaporated](https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229602743/how-the-republican-support-for-the-border-bill-evaporated) [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers) >Demonizing immigrants played a key role in Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency, just as cracking down on “illegal” border crossings and whipping the base into a frenzy over a so-called migrant “invasion” has been a regular feature of his time in office and reelection efforts. But undocumented immigrants have also served another, lesser known but nevertheless vital function in the president’s life: providing cheap labor at his businesses. And not just, like, in years past, or in the first few months of his presidency, but as of—what’s that now?—today. Yes, it’s a tough job to foam at the mouth daily about people entering the country without going through the proper channels first, use it to justify separating families and sending people back to nations they’ve never known—all the while relying on them to keep your golf clubs running—but somebody’s got to do it! > >The Washington Post reports that the Trump Organization currently employs a “roving crew of Latin American employees” to perform masonry and maintenance work at his winery and various golf clubs around the country. For almost two decades, the group has been comprised of workers who came into the US illegally—the penalty for which the president seemingly believes should be death—according to two former crew members. Another one, who still works for Trump, told reporters Joshua Partlow and David A. Fahrenthold that remains the case today. President Trump “doesn’t want undocumented people in the country,” said Jorge Castro, an Ecuadorian immigrant without legal status who left the company last spring after nine years. “But at his properties, he still has them.” He added: “If you’re a good worker, papers don’t matter.” > >Castro said he worked on seven Trump properties, most recently Trump’s golf club in Northern Virginia. He provided The Washington Post with several years of his pay stubs from Trump’s construction company, Mobile Payroll Construction LLC, as well as photos of him and his colleagues on Trump courses and text messages he exchanged with his boss, including one in January dispatching him to “Bedminster,” Trump’s New Jersey golf course. > >Another immigrant who worked for the Trump construction crew, Edmundo Morocho, said he was told by a Trump supervisor to buy fake identity documents on a New York street corner. He said he once hid in the woods of a Trump golf course to avoid being seen by visiting labor union officials. > >Last January, Eric Trump, who took over the day-to-day business with his brother, Don Jr., said that the Trump Organization was “making a broad effort to identify any employee who has given false and fraudulent documents to unlawfully gain employment,” and that any such individuals would be fired immediately. He also claimed that the company was implementing E-Verify, a program that lets employers check the immigration status of new hires “as soon as possible,” though—and please, find something to brace yourself against lest the shock of what you’re about to hear knock you flat on your back—nothing “changed on the Trump construction crew, according to current and former employees.” > >It’s almost as though the president wants the political benefit of treating undocumented immigrants as subhuman menaces while simultaneously receiving the economic benefit of being able to hire people who he can pay less money and not provide health insurance, something his “they’re taking our jobs!” supporters would probably take issue with. (Trump “was saving a lot of money with us,” Castro, whose paychecks show that he made $19 an hour starting in 2016, and then $21 an hour in 2018, told the Post. According to a former carpenter on the crew, “the salary for that work,” which included long hours in the sun breaking rocks or digging trenches “was very low,” and he now earns twice as much doing similar work at a union job, where also receives benefits.) There’s also the uncomfortable matter of Trump’s business practice encouraging the very trend he supposedly believes is destroying the country > >While poverty and violence have pushed thousands to leave Latin America, U.S. businesses that employ undocumented workers are also a major driver of illegal immigration, experts say. By employing workers without legal status, the Trump Organization has an advantage over its competitors, particularly at a time when the economy is strong and the labor market tight, according to industry officials. Undocumented employees are less likely to risk changing jobs and less likely to complain if treated poorly.
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I mean… is this supposed to be news?
He needs to run for president
Clay Higgins from an alternate universe.
"Shawn Fain" wtf 😂
This guy is a fantastic union leader.
Donald Trump is a piece of frumunda cheese. Orange frumunda cheese. Donald Trump appears to be turning into the animated judge in the pink Floyd film The Wall.
"billionaire"
Fain for President!
That's offensive to scabs. He'd have to do real work to earn that insult.
Calm down Karen
It for real man is right
He’s actually an open sore.
I cant wait for him to declare bankrumpt and the letters on his buildings taken away. He is a scaM