The UAW's lead negotiator in contract talks with General Motors reportedly has some harsh words for Donald Trump.
Trump, who is doing a speech in front of auto workers Wednesday, is a "pompous (expletive)" visiting a non-union shop for his photo op, according to UAW Vice President for General Motors Mike Booth.
That's according to a new report from Detroit Free Press, which spoke with Booth and said he issued "a scathing assessment of former President Donald Trump hours before Trump was due to speak in Detroit."
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"Let me be blunt. Donald Trump is coming off as a pompous (expletive)," Booth said in an email, according to the outlet. "Coming to Michigan to speak at a nonunion employer and pretending it has anything to do with our fight at the Big Three is just more verbal diarrhea from the former president."
The report continues:
"Trump was expected to deliver prime-time remarks at Drake Enterprises in Clinton Township. The auto parts supplier is nonunionized. According to an AP report, Trump will speak to a crowd of 'several hundred current and former UAW members, as well as members of plumbers and pipefitters unions.'"
"Booth said Trump's visit to Detroit is disingenuous given his past. In a video about plant closings that the union released Wednesday morning, 2017 footage shows Trump promising autoworkers in Ohio he would save their jobs. But in 2019 GM closed its Lordstown Assembly plant in northeast Ohio, displacing thousands of workers there and helping lead to the union's 2019 strike against GM."
