Auto Union knocks Trump after critical RNC remarks: "A scab and a billionaire"

The United Auto Workers slammed former President Trump after he called for the union’s president, Shawn Fain, to be fired for letting carmakers build factories abroad, during his Thursday evening speech at the Republican National Convention.Trump accused China of making cars in Mexico to sell in the United States, “no tax, no anything,” during his more than 90-minute acceptance speech.“The United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to happen, and the leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately and every single autoworker, union and nonunion, should be voting for Donald Trump, because we’re going to bring back car manufacturing and we’re going to bring it back fast,” Trump said.

The UAW endorsed President Biden in January, as both candidates vied for the support of major unions ahead of the 2024 election. The endorsement followed Biden’s historic visit to the picket line in Michigan during the six-week UAW strike against three major automakers last fall, a first for a sitting president.

Fain said during his January endorsement that Biden “heard the call, and he stood up and he showed up,” and called Trump a “scab” and a “billionaire” who “stands against everything we stand for as a union.”

A few days later, Trump took to Truth Social to rip Fain as a “STIFF” helping sell the automobile industry “right into the big, powerful hands of China.”