Donald Trump to Counter-Program Second GOP Debate by Appearing with Striking Auto Workers in Detroit

Breitbart ^ | 18 Sep 2023 | NICK GILBERTSON

[SoConPubbie]

Former President Donald Trump will appear with striking union members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan, as his opponents squabble for the spotlight on the debate stage on September 27, according to a report that multiple sources have confirmed to Breitbart News.

The New York Times first reported on Trump’s forthcoming appearance with Detroit auto workers striking against the big three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — which will serve as counter-programming to the GOP debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

The GOP frontrunner will deliver a “prime-time speech before current and former union members,” according to the Times, as they strike for higher wages following 40-year-high inflation and seek commitments from automakers and the federal government that Biden’s electrical vehicle agenda will not threaten their jobs or pay, as Breitbart News has documented.

Multiple Trump aides have confirmed the 45th president’s plans to Breitbart News.

Trump, who regularly takes a majority of support in independent national GOP primary polls, is keeping with the strategy his campaign employed in the first debate when he skipped the event and instead joined Tucker Carlson for a one-on-one 45-minute interview on the host’s eponymously-named show, Tucker on Twitter.

After battling the counter-programming, which was released at the start of the first GOP debate on August 23 and instantly went viral, debate storylines quickly fell to the wayside when Trump surrendered in Fulton County, Georgia, on his fourth indictment a day later. The arrest produced the now-iconic mugshot of Trump, the first-ever mugshot of a former president of the United States.

[cnsmom]

Just like in 2015 Trump went to Detroit and laid out the undeniable truth. Michael Moore’s human malatov cocktail speech never gets old.

[Seaplaner]

A wise and presidential candidate might let the debate go without trying to interfere.

Optics.

[digger48]

Thank you&

Glad I’m not alone in thinking that

I’ve walked away from FR during Republican primaries for months before, until its time for the general election

It just gets too personal and doesn’t do a damned thing for the common cause, which is keeping democrats far away from the White House

[SoConPubbie]

A wise and presidential candidate might let the debate go without trying to interfere. Optics

Or so DeSanctimonious Supporters would have us believe!

[SoConPubbie]

You do realize that some of us here like both Trump AND DeSantis, don’t you?

Oh, I see your problem now, you have your head in the sand where DeSanctus is concerned and his being in bed with our Enemies, the GOP-E, Globalists, NeoCons, and NeverTrumpers.

You apparently also have your blinders on where DeSanctimonious is concerned and the fact he is not MAGA.

[Bratch]

President Trump Will Give Speech in Detroit on Night of Second GOPe Debate for First Losers

September 18, 2023 | Sundance | 230 Comments

A smart and strategic move by President Trump, the MAGA warrior of the middle and working-class.

On the night of the second GOPe ‘first loser’ debate, President Donald Trump will be in Detroit giving remarks to striking union workers, pipefitters and various trade workers.

The core of the MAGA coalition is the working and forgotten men and women who keep this nation functioning; a constituency that extends far beyond all races, colors, creeds and affiliations.

(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump is planning to travel to Detroit on the day of the next Republican primary debate, according to two Trump advisers with knowledge of the plans, injecting himself into the labor dispute between striking autoworkers and the nation’s leading auto manufacturers.

The trip, which will include a prime-time speech before current and former union members, is the second consecutive primary debate that Mr. Trump is skipping to instead hold his own counterprogramming. He sat for an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that posted online during the first G.O.P. presidential debate in August.

The decision to go to Michigan just days after the United Auto Workers went on strike shows the extent to which Mr. Trump wants to be seen as looking past his primary rivals — and the reality that both he and his political apparatus are already focused on the possibility of a rematch with President Biden.

So instead of attending the next G.O.P. debate — on Sept. 27 in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum — Mr. Trump intends to speak to over 500 workers, with his campaign planning to fill the room with plumbers, pipefitters, electricians, as well as autoworkers, according to one of the Trump advisers familiar with the planning. Mr. Trump has not directly addressed the wage demands of striking workers and has attacked the union leadership, but he has tried to more broadly cast himself on the side of autoworkers. (read more)

As a businessman and Main Street builder, President Trump knows the value of labor and is well known for treating his employees and staff exceptionally well.  As a builder in many metropolitan areas, for decades Donald Trump has maintained a good working relationship with labor unions and trade workers.

One of the distinctions that separated Donald Trump from the professional Republican field in 2016, was his support for organized labor and his belief that all deals and business enterprises should start with a common respect for the people who do the work.  Many stories have been told about President Trump just listening to the people closest to the work to find optimal solutions for the organization; it has been a very effective style of leadership.

While the politics of labor leadership often align with the Democrat Party, sometimes against the wishes of the members, Donald Trump has a unique way of winning the hearts of the workers, while drawing a respectful distinction with union leadership.  Quite simply, Trump knows the game and uses his own personal style to authentically connect to the workforce.

[digger48]

No, child.

You can’t post anything that doesn’t parrot Trumps name calling

It gets old

[4Liberty]

Bump!!! 🇺🇸👍😎

[1Old Pro]

Let’ just call him 47.

[Nervous Tick]

>> President Donald “The G.O.A.T.” Trump is going to suck the air out of the Midget Debate Again!

That’s great, but more importantly than that, President Trump will:
— make a meaningful electoral impact in Midwestern swing states
— double down on his populist leadership stance
— attack China
— brutally attack the Xao Beidan cabal

... all in one evening! BRILLIANT!

[Danie_2023]

“There’s a certain amount of snark and sarcasm and wisecracks on Free Republic. But we are all supposed to avoid insults and put downs. We are supposed to discuss the issues, and not attack fellow Freepers. After all, we are all on the same team. We are all conservatives who believe in the same values.”

Not “all”. There are some here with a deliberate agenda to disrupt and divide. And I have to wonder how many Conservative patriots have soured on this forum and have left due to these “disruptors” and name-calling propagandists.

You can easily tell who these people are. They’re the ones that care not that someone is on the right and united against the Marxist left. If you’re not fully committed to the TrumpOnly campaign, you’re automatically deemed “the enemy” by them. It’s asinine, but that is how it is, sadly.

[catnipman]

“So Trump is backing the United Autoworkers Union now?”

sounds to me like he’s backing the workers, you know, the ones being killed by bidenflation and auto regs designed to kill U.S. ICE auto production and instead import millions of chinese pieces of krap battery cars ...

[equaviator]

Strike or no strike, I’d like to see Trump hijack and steal the UAW for Republicans out from under the Democrats in a bloodless coup...Like never before!

[JonPreston]

Michael Moore; he’s missing. I read somewhere he’s vaxx damaged.

[JonPreston]

Why not promote desantis instead of knocking trump? He needs help.

[Nervous Tick]

>> sounds to me like he’s backing the workers, you know, the ones being killed by bidenflation and auto regs designed to kill U.S.

Yes. That.

[fuzzylogic]

He did during 2016, visiting the union members and talking with them - and they were supportive of him. It’s why it’s such a sham to claim Michigan voted for Biden. In many blue collar communities, many that work for the big 3, Trump signs were everywhere (I’m in MI).

[JoSixChip]

Your post is disingenuous at best, downright woefully & willfully ignorant at best, when you look at what Trump actually said.

As are all this freaks posts. You should see it in the Ukraine threads, all propaganda and lies all the time.

[SoConPubbie]

You can easily tell who these people are. They’re the ones that care not that someone is on the right and united against the Marxist left. If you’re not fully committed to the TrumpOnly campaign, you’re automatically deemed “the enemy” by them. It’s asinine, but that is how it is, sadly.

This is how you know you're a Troll or a Never Trumper!

You're inability to be objective and only see or purposefully filter out, the bad behavior you are trying to hi-lite on both sides of the equation.

[Wuli]

Trump the populist doing what populists do.

While there is nothing conservative about recent “green” moves by the automakers, there is nothing conservative about the union demands. While Biden’s “green” demands are making the unionized automakers weaker, the union demands will accelerate that.

Where will Trump go when the unions he now wants to support join the automakers in 2025 asking Congress for bailouts to keep the production lines running.