Trump: If they strike, they’re fired. Musk: Ha, ha, ha!

A former president and one of the world’s richest billionaires sat down for an online chat, broadcast on the billionaire’s X social media platform yesterday.  Donald Trump and Elon Musk said exactly what they thought about the people who do their work.

Listen for yourself:

Trump expressed his profound admiration toward Musk, who emulates Trump’s trademark “You’re fired” reality act from “The Apprentice” in real life. The two discussed casually devastating people’s careers and families’ incomes, then laughed about it.

The UAW has already filed suit against both Trump and Musk for unfair labor practices. We support that action. The UAW, because Musk owns Tesla and SpaceX, has legal standing since they’re working to organize workers there. We do not. Otherwise SMART would be right there with them.

We all know that Trump is running for president on the Republican ticket this November. When he occupied the Oval Office, he allowed the huge railroads to ignore safety as Precision Scheduled Railroading spread. Trump’s FRA made a direct attack on SMART-TD and the people we represent by trying to drop two-person freight crews.

Is Trump with us or against us? Every voter will have to make up their own mind, but as a union fighting every day for better working conditions, we hope America’s workers agree to tell him “You’re still fired” on Nov. 5.