Monday, September 30, 2024

Trump Tells Truth: 'Hated to Give Overtime ... I Wouldn't Pay'

Donald Trump boasted to a rally crowd in Pennsylvania that he hated to pay overtime and wouldn't pay it to his employees who were entitled to receive it. "I know a lot about overtime," he said. "I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I'd get other people, I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay." Trump has been touting a plan to end taxes on overtime pay without also saying he plans to limit worker access to overtime.

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"I know a lot about overtime," the Republican candidate boasted. "I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I'd get other people, I shouldn't say this, but I'd get other people in. I wouldn't pay."

Right off the bat, there are still some political observers who like to pretend that the former president is some kind of ally to working-class Americans. It's against that backdrop that Trump thought it'd be a good idea to admit that he, as a boss, deliberately took steps to deny his own employees overtime compensation to which they were entitled.

But just as notably, a variety of analysts have explained that the far-right Project 2025 agenda, written in large part by members of Trump's own team, would also limit workers' access to overtime compensation.

With all of this in mind, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign wasted little time in pouncing on the Republican for accidentally speaking his mind.

"Donald Trump is finally owning up to it: He's built an entire career on screwing over workers," Harris-Walz spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in a written statement. "It's exactly what he did in the White House - trying to rip away tips and overtime pay for millions of workers - and exactly what he plans to do in a second term. Trump is a scab, plain and simple. He is selling snake oil lies in a desperate attempt to trick voters. He can't be trusted - workers know it, and voters know it. They'll elect a champion who has their back by voting for Vice President Harris this November."

So much for Mr. I Care About Workers Trump, as he openly voices his true Daddy Warbucks hostility towards paying his own employees fairly for their overtime labor.

Hope the Teamsters are listening to Donald telling the world how little he values those who work for an hourly wage.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-30 08:25 AM

That Trump has ALWAYS stiffed ordinary working people is in itself, IN ITSELF, disqualfying.

He's disgusting. So are you, if you give him money or votes.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-30 08:33 AM

The hilarious thing about Trump's constant whining about being witch-hunted all the time is that he will just confess to violations of the law without even being asked about it. He's his own fiercest interrogator.
He's such a genius.

#3 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-30 12:25 PM

he (Trump) will just confess to violations of the law without even being asked about it.

#3 | Posted by anton

Narcissistic Personality Disorder does this. It's a form of bragging.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-30 12:52 PM

#5

"Trump crimes better than any. Nobody crimes like Trump."

#5 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-30 01:51 PM

Next up: Der Dotard's explanation of how he uses special work visa loopholes to bring in Eastern European help to work his properties in the summer, knowing these folks will take less than American workers in the same jobs. The barking seals in his audiences lap it up, not realizing this fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat is talking about how he exploits workers for personal gain...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-30 02:12 PM

I hate msnbc but this article is 100% accurate, 100% truthful in both Trump's comments, their context, and the analysis!

#7 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-30 02:21 PM

#6

The really sad thing is that we have his sexual assault M.O. on audio and video and there are still Trumpcult weirdos who think he didn't assault E.J. Carroll.

#8 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-30 02:50 PM

This comes just a few weeks after he and Elon were giggling like two tween girls at a slumber party about how fun it is to fire striking workers.

Never vote for a scab.

#9 | Posted by anton at 2024-09-30 02:52 PM

Where are the usual suspects to deflect and throw ketchup NOW?

#10 | Posted by e1g1 at 2024-09-30 04:52 PM

It's not just overtime he doesn't pay.

#11 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-09-30 07:33 PM

Oh, it's not just overtime he seems to avoid paying, by workers in general...

Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills (2016)
www.usatoday.com

... Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people -- carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers -- who say he didn't pay them for their work. ...

And that is just as of 2016 ...

So, I have to ask, does fmr Pres Trump really care about workers? Or is his feigning of concern about workers yet another scan he is running?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-30 08:39 PM

"does fmr Pres Trump really care about workers?"

Only the gullible ones.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-09-30 08:47 PM

Man brags about being a cheapskate, and some of you
want to elect this man?! A real 'man of the people'
you got there...

#14 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-10-01 12:41 PM

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