Donald Trump has come under fire from Gavin Newsom's Press Office after the president was seen flipping off a factory worker.
Footage of Trump's trip to a Ford factory in Michigan went viral yesterday and was denounced by politicians and political analysts. Gavin Newsom's Press Office, in a now viral post to X, blasted the president for rising to the crowd's heckles. A factory worker appeared to yell "pedophile president" as Trump walked by on a walkway above.
The president reacted by giving the middle finger to the factory worker, while also reportedly shouting "f**k you". Footage of the incident has since gone viral, with Gavin Newsom's Press Office sharing the clip. They added, "Why is the President attacking a fellow American?"
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.
White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said of the incident, "A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response."
A statement from a Ford spokesperson added that they do not condone "anyone saying anything inappropriate". They added, "When that happens, we have a process to deal with it but we don’t get into specific personnel matters."
The worker was calling Trump out for his association with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender — a former friend — who he said he cut ties and threw Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club when he had a falling out about poaching and recruiting his staff.
Trump has not been charged with any crime or involvement with Epstein's sex trafficking ring. He has denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
