President Donald Trump has issued a warning to the American people concerning the future of the auto industry. This comes as he prepares to address workers in Michigan. In his statement, Trump criticized Democrat President Joe Biden’s push for electric vehicles, arguing that these green agenda policies will have detrimental effects on the American auto industry.
Trump’s remarks are in anticipation of his scheduled appearance where he will speak to workers at an auto parts manufacturing plant in Michigan on Wednesday evening. Prior to Trump’s visit, Biden briefly visited Michigan on Tuesday, where he joined the picket line alongside members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union who have been on strike for nearly two weeks.
“Joe Biden’s draconian and indefensible Electric Vehicle mandate will annihilate the U.S. auto industry and cost countless thousands of autoworkers their jobs,” Trump said in a statement.
“The only thing Biden could say today that would help the striking autoworkers is to announce the immediate termination of his ridiculous mandate.”
The Biden administration has been actively promoting a shift from gasoline-powered vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). To support this initiative, substantial funding has been allocated by Biden towards the manufacturing of electric vehicles. The stated objective of this effort is to achieve a target where electric vehicles make up half of all new vehicle sales across the country by the year 2030.
“Anything else is just a feeble and insulting attempt to distract American labor from this vicious Biden betrayal,” Trump’s statement continued.
“Crooked Joe should be ashamed to show his face before these hardworking Americans he is stabbing in the back.
“With Biden, it doesn’t matter what hourly wages they get, in three years there will be no autoworker jobs as they will all come out of China and other countries.
“With me, there will be jobs and wages like you’ve never seen before.
“Our economy will grow!”
During his visit to the picket line on Tuesday, Biden was accompanied by UAW President Shawn Fain. The Democratic president voiced his support for higher wages for the workers.
However, not all workers welcomed Biden warmly. Some of them expressed concerns about his electric vehicle agenda and seemed to share Trump’s assertion that Biden’s policies could harm the auto industry.
“He hasn’t really shown us anything,” Jason Richards, a forklift operator at a Ford plant, told the Washington Free Beacon.
“He’s giving companies all these big incentives to push towards electric vehicles and it’s going to eliminate our jobs as UAW members.
“It takes a whole lot less people to build an electric vehicle than a gas-powered vehicle.”
would cancel the second presidential debate to address auto workers in Michigan.
UAW President Shawn Fain has been critical of Trump, making false claims that he primarily serves the billionaire class and contributes to the country’s problems.
Trump has consistently expressed concerns about the economic ties between the United States and Communist China. In response to inquiries about the strike, Trump remarked that the workers had been let down by their leadership and encouraged them to support his cause.
