Former President Donald Trump thinks that constructing a BMW X3 in Spartanburg, South Carolina is as straightforward as placing a jigsaw puzzle collectively. Whereas talking on the Financial Membership of Chicago on Tuesday, the Republican presidential nominee stated that assembling a automotive is really easy that “we might have our little one do it.” It’d go with out saying, however let’s say it anyway: Trump’s oversimplification of automotive manufacturing in extremely demeaning to the bodily demanding jobs of American autoworkers.
Trump continued his years-long rant about commerce and tariffs. He talks about commerce like somebody talking about how they might handle their favourite soccer crew, utterly aloof of all of the variables at play and one way or the other all the pieces would work of their favor. It’s much more absurd when you think about that Trump was the President of the USA for 4 years. Trump stated:
“We’re going to place tariffs on them they usually’re going to do—and you recognize what they will do? Then Mercedes-Benz will begin constructing in the USA. And so they have slightly bit, however you recognize what they are surely? Meeting, like in South Carolina. However they construct all the pieces in Germany, after which they assemble it right here. They get away with homicide as a result of they are saying, oh, sure, we’re constructing vehicles. They don’t construct vehicles. They take them out of a field they usually assemble them. We might have our little one do it.”
I can’t emphasize sufficient how bodily demanding it’s to work in an meeting plant. The wear and tear and tear on the physique step by step accumulate over years of 12-hour shifts to the purpose the place employees are in fixed ache. Situations could be even worse in non-union factories like these run by Elon Musk, one in all Trump’s most vocal supporters. A employee died at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory after apparently struggling a cardiac arrest. The sufferer’s household claims he was electrocuted in a $1 million lawsuit in opposition to Tesla, KVUE stories. In line with a report from the Info, one in each 21 Tesla autoworkers had been injured in 2022.
Trump has a wierd relationship with autoworkers. He clearly needs to win their votes whereas utterly belittling what they do and demonizing the union that represents their pursuits. Final yr, the Republican candidate held a rally at a non-union plant in Michigan the place his marketing campaign paid $20,000 to carry indicators posing as UAW members. With Trump planning to go to a McDonald’s on Sunday to mock Kamala Harris’ employment historical past, he ought to attempt to construct a automotive throughout his subsequent cease at an meeting plant.
