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President Donald Trump gave the middle finger Tuesday to a worker screaming "pedophile protector" during a tour at a Detroit factory.

Trump was touring a Ford F-150 plant in the Motor City just before his speech on the United States economy at the Detroit Economic Club when a worker started shouting at him as the president walked above the workers, TMZ reported.

In a video capturing the moment, Trump yelled back "F--- you!" He pointed his finger, then he switched to giving the bird....

A conservative commentator faced pushback after insisting that Donald Trump had not bashed Detroit while visiting the city earlier this month.

Kamala Harris poked fun at the former president for making insulting remarks about the city while campaigning in Michigan, but Republican strategist Scott Jennings claimed her joke was unfair.

"Harris is heading to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County, which is a suburb of Detroit," said CNN host Kate Bolduan. "Donald Trump is going to be an Oakland County, as well, I don't think there's going to be a joint appearance. This will be the first time that he's heading back to rally there since he was in Detroit and trashed Detroit. Do you think that should be his message this time around?"...

Detroit Three autoworkers who were on strike or laid off as a result of the United Auto Workers' work stoppage are starting to return to work after tentative agreements were reached between the union and all three automakers. Ford Motor Co. said in an update Monday night that all of its workers who had been on strike had returned to work and that it was in the process of calling back to work thousands who had been laid off at other plants. Ford last week became the first of the Detroit automakers to reach a tentative agreement on a new four-and-a-half-year contract with the UAW; Stellantis NV ......

In his first visit to Michigan since announcing his 2024 presidential run, former President Donald Trump bashed President Joe Biden and electric vehicles, emphasizing the “decimation” of the state and jobs for its auto workers.

“After years of cruel sellouts by past leaders, you finally got a president who put Michigan first and put America first,” Trump said at the Oakland County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner, according to The Michigan Daily. “Within hours of my inauguration, I will cancel every bit of Biden policy that has been brutalizing Michigan auto workers.”

But his visit on June 25 to the Detroit suburb of Novi ended up costing the city’s taxpayers nearly $7,000 in police overtime costs, according to government documents obtained by Raw Story through a Michigan Freedom of Information Act request....

Posturing as a friend and ally of the working class, former President Donald Trump is planning to travel to Detroit next week amid the historic United Auto Workers strike against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis.

But during his four years in power, Trump took an openly hostile stance toward workers, stacking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with anti-union officials, gutting Labor Department regulations aimed at protecting workers' wages and benefits, and nominating Supreme Court justices and agency heads with long histories of siding with companies over employees—all while delivering huge tax cuts to the rich and big corporations, including major automakers.

"At every turn, Donald Trump and his appointees have made increasing the power of corporations over working people their top priority," the Communications Workers of America wrote while the former president was still in office. "Trump has encouraged freeloaders, made it more difficult to enforce collective bargaining agreements, silenced workers, and restricted the freedom to join unions."...

(Reuters) - Shares of U.S. automakers Ford Motor Co and General Motors fell 2% before the bell on Friday after a strike by unionized workers at three plants making some of their most profitable pick-up trucks. The U.S.-listed shares of Chrysler-owner Stellantis also edged down 0.5% premarket after a walkout by hourly workers, represented by United Auto Workers (UAW), at its Toledo, Ohio assembly plant where it makes the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator. Stellantis' Milan-listed shares reversed course, climbing 0.5% in the morning trade. The escalation came as talks between the UAW and the 'Detroit ......