"I travel all across this country and meet with my members every week. You know what I see? An American worker being taken for granted," he said, garnering applause. "The American people ... know the system is broken. We all know how Washington is run."
While it's true that O'Brien was the first Teamsters president to ever address the RNC, emphasis on the speech's novelty serves to obfuscate a more sinister truth: Trump's "pro-worker" messaging is an intentional prong of his broader reactionary, far right agenda.
Of course, it is a shameless lie for Trump to claim that MAGA conservatism has working-class interests at heart. Under his presidency, he gutted workplace safety rules, implemented tax cuts that heavily favored the wealthy...
Recent reporting from The Washington Post noted that Trump has continued to tell donors in closed-door meetings that he will lower their corporate taxes, and he's encouraged...
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