Trump oddly tells Michigan auto-worker crowd, ‘I’ve done more for you than your parents’ in latest rambling speech
President riffs on everything except the hotly-contested Michigan Senate race in appearance at General Motors facility
It took 46 minutes for President Donald Trump to mention the name of the man he’d come to stump for as he delivered a bizarre, seemingly-endless rant in which he told a crowd of autoworkers he’d done more for them than the people who’d given birth to them or raised them. The president was in the Wolverine State to campaign for former Representative Mike Rogers, who is running opposed for the Republican nomination in this year’s open Senate race. Rogers, a former FBI Special Agent, is expected to be in a close race against the winner of the hotly-contested Democratic primary between Rep.
Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. But before Trump could bring Rogers on stage at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, he clearly had things he wanted off his chest. He claimed Michigan’s autoworkers had been “sold out and betrayed by globalist politicians and corrupt special interests” for decades before he came into office and raised import taxes on many of the auto parts used by manufacturers in an increasingly integrated global economy and took aim at the head of the United Auto Workers union, Shawn Fain.
“This guy was bad news. I never spoke to him. Never saw him,” Trump said as he attacked Fain as “a Democrat” and claimed there’d be “no auto industry” had he not been reelected in 2024.
“I don't know what happened to the guy. Somebody said he got fired,” Trump added.Fain, an electrician by trade, remains the president of the UAW and has served in that role since 2023.
But Trump, who dismissed the UAW endorsement of his former opponents, noted that “the people that count” love him.“Those people love Trump because I've done more for you than your parents. Okay, your parents are good.
I'm not going to knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents. That I can tell you,” he said. More follows...
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