Here’s what I don’t get.
He’s incredibly consistent, not paying contractors, or employees. Or paying fractions of what the contract actually stipulated.
I don’t get why any contractor would work for him. any contractor that works with trump is going to get fucked over. its how he operates.
The world is full of incredible idiots. If your megaphone is big enough you can find one for just about anything you need.
He’s notorious for not paying people. He purposely chose small contractors to help build and do work on his properties, then would say they did terrible work and he wasn’t going to pay them. He knew they wouldn’t be able to afford to take him to court to get the money owed.
He’s a successful businessman, he does indeed run the country exactly like he runs his businesses: stiff the people doing the work for him, divert the funds towards his nepotism clique, bleed the company dry until bankruptcy, and move on to do the exact same thing again because when you’re a star, they let you do it.
Trump: I WILL FUCK YOU ALL UP THE ASS!
crowd: CHEERS
Trump: I THINK YOU’RE ALL TRASH AND I WISH I COULD THROW YOU ALL IN A GIANT POOL OF ACID
crowd: ERUPTS WITH APPROVAL
Trump: I WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN
crowd: CHEERS WILDLY AND THROW BABIES IN THE AIR
There a page in project 2025 against overtime! Imagine that!
Plus more scattered throughout. Here’s just some of the obvious quotes about it
DOL should clarify that a home office is not subject to OSHA regulations and that time to set up a home office is not compensable time or eligible for overtime calculations
They want to remove overtime pay for work from home
Congress should amend the NLRA to authorize collective bargaining to treat national employment laws and regulations as negotiable defaults. For example, this reform would allow a union to bless a relaxed overtime trigger (e.g., 45 hours a week, or 80 hours over two weeks)
Allowing labor laws to be negotiable is going to be used by companies to given worse labor contracts to unions and is a blatant attempt to weaken their power
You’d think Unions would just reject that bullshit, but then Teamsters is … probably fully on board.
I despise Trump. I want him to lose. This kind of “journalism” needs to die so that the real stories about him don’t get buried by half truths and lies. Trump says enough shitty, faschist things that we don’t need to twist his words like this.
Trump said that he hates paying people overtime so, if they’re getting close to overtime, he brings other people in. He does what every business does and implements shifts. He didn’t say that he screws people out of overtime pay for time they worked. He avoids overtime pay by bringing in a new shift of workers.
How often Trump stiffs his employees and contractors for real is a good story. This story is essentially a lie that attempts to portray Trump badly but really only makes “the left” look bad.
Don’t lie and ruin the credibility of left-leaning media. Use the real ammo that Trump drops like bread crumbs everywhere he goes.
Him screwing over workers IS journalism that works against him. His bullshit “man of the people” shtick and trying to reform the GOP as pro-labor is in direct contrast to him screwing people over.
Christ, you need to take a break.
I know that he does screw over employees, but how is that the case in this circumstance? He is sending workers home before they hit overtime and bringing in a different shift of workers. Every business does that. Every business attempts to minimize the amount of overtime that they pay. In fact, that’s the point of overtime laws, to disincentivize working employees too many hours.
I’m not defending him as a person. I’m saying this is shitty journalism that just gives him something additional to point at when he says that the media lies about him. We shouldn’t be giving him that ammo.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the national trade union center known as AFL-CIO, said in response, “This isn’t a gaffe and he didn’t just misspeak — Trump said this in Michigan on Friday and Pennsylvania today. Trump cut overtime for millions of Americans as President — and his Project 2025 agenda will do it again.”
That says it all. It’s right there in the article. Now, if you’re saying its “totally legal, and totally cool” what he’s doing and admitting to, then that’s your own opinion. A fuck ton of other absolutely hate it and think it’s bullshit, which validates this reporting being out there.
