UAW President Shawn Fain Ramps Up War With Donald Trump: He’s ‘Standing For The Billionaire Class’

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain and former President Donald Trump have gone to war with each other.

Fain stated in an interview he gave on Face the Nation explaining why the union endorsed Joe Biden over Trump.

“Look, when you look at these two candidates, you know, Joe Biden has a history of serving others, and serving the working class, and fighting for the working class, standing with the working class,” the UAW president stated. “Donald Trump has a history of serving himself and standing for the billionaire class. And that’s contrary to everything that working class people stand for.”

Trump responded to what Fain said during this interview by attacking him in a Truth Social post.

“I had the great privilege of watching Shawn Fain, the President of the United Auto Workers, this morning on DeFace the Nation,” the former president wrote. “He is a real ‘STIFF’ who is selling the Automobile Industry right into the big, powerful, hands of China. 55% of the industry has already left the U.S., and the rest will soon be following if I am not elected President. He bought into Biden’s ‘vision’ of all Electric Vehicles, which require far fewer workers to make each car but, more importantly, are not wanted in large numbers by the consumer, and will ALL be made in China.”

“I want them to be made in the USA, every type of car, and would require China, and other countries, through TARIFFS, or otherwise, to build plants here, with our workers,” Trump added. “Now they are building in Mexico, the biggest plants anywhere, and selling their cars, Tariff Free, into the good ol’ USA. Shawn Fain doesn’t understand this or have a clue. Get rid of this dope & vote for DJT. I will bring the Automobile Industry back to our Country.”

Fain fired back at Trump for his comments during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

“We look at what he’s done – the body of work throughout his presidency, and Joe Biden through his presidency,” Fain declared. “It’s a real clear picture, I mean, Donald Trump did not stand with working-class people when he had the opportunity as president.”

He then went on to discuss the difference between Biden and Trump in terms of how they support working-class people.

“It’s a perfect contrast between the two candidates,” the UAW president mentioned. “I mean, you have, for the first time in history, a sitting U.S. president joining working-class people, joining the workers on the picket line, standing up with them.”

“And you had Donald Trump, who claims he supports the workers, who call one of his business owner buddies in a non-union factory, and he goes to this non-union factory and has a rally claiming that he’s there for the union workers and the striking workers,” he went on to say.

“It’s what Trump does best,” Fain stated. “It’s a rope-a-dope. He wants you to look over here while over here, he’s taking everything away. I mean, it’s the divide-and-conquer tactic, and that’s what’s worked for the billionaire class and the corporate class forever.”

During a Fox News interview, Trump called the United Auto Workers a “hopeless case.”

“They’ve led their industry right into the poor house, and now they’ve finished it off because, if you — if Biden gets elected, you won’t have an autoworker working in the United States, he claimed. “Everything’s going over to China and other countries outside.”

During a Michigan rally in September 2023, a Trump supporter waved a sign reading “auto workers for Trump.”

This supporter raised eyebrows when he told The Detroit News he was not an auto worker.

In January, Trump stated that he hoped a financial crash would occur in 2024. He believed that would help him win a second term as president.

Biden’s reelection campaign criticized Trump for harming the middle class so that he could benefit politically.

Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, responded that the former president wanted millions of Americans to be unemployed.