Trump, Crusading For the Workers

UNLESS I'M DREAMING, and surely I am, Donald Trump plans to go to Detroit next week to support the auto worker's strike. I believe that he made this anouncement on his own social media platform, and as since confirmed it. Maybe he is hoping that by planning his visit for next week, he can delay it long enough that the strike will be over, and he can claim credit for resolving it, without ever having to lift a finger, using his so totally terrific bargaining skills. Indeed it may be over before next week, but it doesn't look like it. A representatve for the workers said that their wages could be doubled, and the automaking corporations would still make a huge profit, so great have their profits been in recent years. That doesn't sound like a strike that's close to being settled. Has Trump ever in his life supported workers in any way? Has he ever, as a politician, proposed any laws, regulations, or programs which would benefit the working class, especially the poor working class? Not to my knowledge. Has Trump the entrepenuer ever done anything beneficial for workers in general or his employees in particular, such as paying them well? Not to my knowledge. It may well be that some of the top people in Trump's organization, his closest assistants, advisors, lawyers, accountants, have been paid well by Trump, but probably only because he, Trump, had no choice. Trump has evidently famously hired undocumented workers, let them work, then refused to pay them because they were undocumented. Trump has never in his life advocated publicly on behalf of the working class, nor done anything to help and support workers. And now, this. "This" is an obvious publicity stunt, to get votes, to bolster his campaign for president by kissing up to millions of workers. Pretty smart move, really. But, so what? Regardless of motivation, which we all know, Trump is, or evidently will be, nonetheless, showing and thus giving support to the workers on strike against the big three big American carmakers. For all we know, the richest, most powerful excutives in one or all of these companies may be a big Trump hater, and the Don may in fact be just trying to get even. In truth, as far as underpaid, overworked, exploited workers go, the UAW folks don't have it half bad. Their pay is high, their working conditions and benefits have much improved compared to many workers over the years, and they now have a pretty good deal. Inflation, however, catches up with everybody, and they want to catch their earnings up with prices. What, precisely, Trump will say and do when he arrives in Michigan is of course a fascinating question, one which will most definitely be answered soon. Will he join the picket lines, and carrying a sign which says: "Union Now!" while defiantly walking back and forth on a street in front of an auto assembly facility? Frankly, its hard to imagine. Surely he will make a few remarks, or give a speech, maybe even a long one. Why not? Trump speeches never fail to entertain. Will his words sing the praisies of organized labor, of the millions of hard workng blue collar Americans, repairing the sewer system, cleaning bathrooms and buildings, hauling the garbage, and seeking only reasonably decent pay and treatment in return? Will he demand, on behalf of these noble workers, equal pay, and equality of living standard? Will he condemn the elitism and greed of the billionaire ownership class, and its wicked oppression of the workers? One thing we can rest assured he will not do, is raise his clenched fist and scream: "Democratic Socialism Now"! But at least, if he does indeed go join the workers, he will, for once in his seemingly dubious, bizarre life of privilege, controversy, greed, unethical and illegal behavior, be doing the right thing, even if doing it for all the wrong reasons.