Former President Donald Trump is once again going at the leader of the United Auto Workers union, telling his supporters on social media that he doesn’t “understand” the future of the automobile industry.
The President of the UAW, Shawn Fain, appeared on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, during which he took several shots at Trump. The interview comes after Fain decided to back President Joe Biden instead of Trump for the second time.
“When you look at these two candidates, you know, Joe Biden has a history of serving others, and serving the working class, and fighting for the working class, standing with the working class,” Fain said Sunday. “Donald Trump has a history of serving himself and standing for the billionaire class. And that’s contrary to everything that working-class people stand for.”
Trump responded to Fain, saying that he was a “STIFF” and helping sell the industry “right into the big, powerful hands of China.”
“He [Fain] 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,” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.
The former president’s criticism of Biden’s push to electric is nothing new, as he often brought it up during this past summer’s UAW strike.
However, in the post, he continued to push for his “made in the USA” stance, something he says won’t happen if Biden is elected.
“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,” Trump wrote.
Despite his remarks, the UAW formally backed Biden’s reelection campaign last week, while at the same time, Fain called Trump a “scab.”
“Donald Trump is a billionaire, and that’s who he represents. If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn’t be a UAW member,” Fain said. “He’d be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker. Donald Trump stands against everything we stand for as a union.”