Bedminster, NJ — Last week, President Donald J. Trump released a video message to America’s auto workers.
What’s happening to our Auto Workers is an absolute disgrace! @UAW pic.twitter.com/gtvOYMMiXi
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 30, 2023
TRANSCRIPT
“What’s happening to our auto workers is an absolute disgrace and an outrage beyond belief,” President Trump said. “Auto workers are getting totally ripped off by Crooked Joe Biden and also their horrendous leadership.”
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. And it’s a mandate so you’ll ultimately be forced to drive in a car that goes for an hour and then you have to have it recharged. I hope you don’t want to go very far away.
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Biden has set a much higher requirement that 67% of all new cars be electric within ten years. This is a big problem for places like Michigan that make traditional cars. You can forget about those jobs because they all go to China.
The president of the UAW, the auto workers union, also said one CEO used the word “cruelty” 40 times in a conversation about Joe Biden. I call him Crooked Joe because I think he is the most corrupt and incompetent president in history.
But Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandate is not a good policy. This is worse than even your union leaders know. However, they are reluctant to take action because they are not true leaders. Do you know who supports me? General Union members.
The union leaders and Crooked Joe keep talking about a “fair transition,” but let me tell you, there’s nothing fair about it. First of all, most people don’t even want electric cars, and those who do should have the choice. We should have all types of transportation and motorization options, and we shouldn’t be forced into this unnecessary switch to electric vehicles.
But this so-called “fair transition” is anything but fair. It’s going to destroy over 100,000 auto manufacturing jobs, and it might be even worse than that. It’s wasting tens of billions of dollars that should be going to the workers and making new cars way too expensive.
For the middle class, this transition is like going to hell, and your union leaders are leading you right down that path. You shouldn’t be paying them fees. They collect these big fees from all of you, but it doesn’t matter how bad things get; they’ll still endorse a Democrat, even if the Democrats are selling you out.
Both UAW bosses and the big three auto executives should be screaming at the top of their lungs — they should be ashamed of themselves — demanding that Joe Biden repeal his brutal electric vehicle mandate before it destroys the entire US auto sector.
If union bosses and CEOs refuse to fight back against Crooked Joe Biden by forcing him to cancel this disastrous electric car scheme, you know they are not pro-workers, they are not on your side. They got some deals for themselves.
And I tell you, you should not pay those dues. You should not pay your dues because they are selling you to hell. You are going to hell. You will have no jobs. All those cars are made in China. Each of them. You can forget it, Michigan. You can forget it, South Carolina. You can forget it, everyone. All those cars are made in China.
We are sitting on liquid gold and we are removing combustion engines. And they sit on top of all the other materials you need for batteries. They’re going to make all those cars. We’re not going to make any of them up.
So to every auto worker, I’m in full solidarity with you in your fight against Joe Biden’s job-killing Green New Deal madness. This is insanity. When I am your president I will give auto workers higher wages. I will protect your jobs. I will end Joe Biden’s disastrous electric vehicle mandate. And by the way, if you want an electric car, you’re going to get one. But you can get all other types of cars, the types of vehicles you want.
And day one, you’re going to do business with me again. And those factories are going to open again. I remember saying all this during the election campaign. And when I was elected, there were very few car companies built outside of this country. I stopped.
They never went to Mexico again. If you go to Mexico, I’m putting a big tariff. If you ship that car back to the United States you make a car that carries a 25% tariff. I stopped. Well, now they’re doing it again, worse than ever. Before I got to Mexico we lost 32% of our industry. And we lost almost nothing. nothing In fact, we have taken our industry back. But now again it is going on. I will fix it.
But you should vote for Trump. You should vote for Trump. You don’t listen to these union guys, they get paid a lot of money and they win and dine in Washington. They know that electric cars are not good for our workers.
So vote Republican but vote Trump. If we do not win this election, our country, not only in terms of auto workers but also our country will surely go to hell.
Thank you very much.