Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign kicked off Labor Day by posting past remarks from former President Donald Trump in which he disparages American workers.
One video posted by the Harris campaign featured Trump laughing it up with X CEO Elon Musk about the time that Musk fired employees who were trying to form a union at one of his firms.
"They go on strike and you say, 'That's okay, you're all gone you're all gone, every one of your is gone!'" Trump said as Musk laughed in the background. "You are the greatest!"
A second video posted by the Harris campaign featured Trump appearing on Fox News in which he complained about unions scoring hefty pay increases for their members.
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"With unions, they get their five percent, they get their two percent, they get another three percent, four percent, all of a sudden they're making more money than the people that own the company!" Trump complained.
In reality, such hefty pay increases never happen and statistics have shown that the ratio of CEO compensation to worker compensation has exploded since the 1970s.
Trump has been trying to woo union workers in his 2024 presidential campaign, although so far the vast majority of unions have put their weight behind Harris and Democrats, who have traditionally been more friendly to organized labor than Republicans.
