Donald Trump Is a Scab

Despite being openly against America’s workers, so many of them are head over heels in love with the creep.

B Kean
4 min readAug 21, 2024

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Courtesy of AFL-CIO

Last week, Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for firing striking workers. The comment was mentioned offhandedly in a way that revealed that Trump deeply respected the power to punish workers demanding better labor conditions. Musk, for his part, and seemingly more aware of the words that come out of his mouth — although not much more — just kind of grunted-giggled.

Since then, Trump’s comment has rippled out across the lake, causing him a fair amount of problems with organized labor’s leadership. On Monday at the DNC, AOC declared to the world in a speech that finally removed her from being an “annoying Squad member” into a budding leadership role in the Democratic Party that Donald Trump was a “scab.” President Biden followed her speech by shouting to the heavens that “Trump is a scab.”

Scab perfectly sums up exactly who Donald Trump has been throughout his entire professional and political life. Few real estate developers were as notoriously deceitful when paying laborers for their completed work. Trump’s empty proclamations that he is the best president to protect American workers have many times been proven false, if not ridiculous. And yet, many union members are hardcore…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.

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