<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><i class="">"<span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The post appeared to refer to criticism from Trumka on Sunday of the White House’s strategy in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement."</span></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-kicks-labor-day-insulting-u-s-union-leader-trumka-n906011" class="">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-kicks-labor-day-insulting-u-s-union-leader-trumka-n906011</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="f10-xl f9-m founders-cond lh-none mt0 fw3 headline___CuovH f8 mb3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; font-family: FoundersGroteskCond, 'Arial Narrow', Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1;">Trump kicks off Labor Day by slamming U.S. union leader Trumka</h1><div class="f5-m f7-xl f4 dekSummary___GcgCT publico-hed f6-l lh-copy fw3 mb6-m ls-normal mb3" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PublicoHeadline, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;">Trump tweeted criticism Monday morning of AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, the leader of the largest labor group in the U.S.</div><div class="lh-copy founders-mono ws-tight f2 ls-tight" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: FoundersGroteskMono, Menlo, Monaco, monospace; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1.5; word-spacing: -0.1em;"><span class="inlineAuthor___sgwQx" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 1;">by Adam Edelman / </span><span class="pubDate___21qBX" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><time class="pubDate___3OViw" datetime="Mon Sep 03 2018 16:27:00 GMT+0000 (UTC)" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; z-index: 1;">Sep.03.2018 / 12:27 PM ET</time></span></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">President Donald Trump kicked off Labor Day on Monday by insulting the leader of the largest labor union federation in the United States.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Trump took aim Monday morning at Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, slamming him for having “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.”</p><div class="tc tl-m ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;"><div data-enigma="true" data-slot="boxinline" data-sizes="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-render-on-view="true" data-targeting="{}" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><div id="div-mps-ad-boxinline-4" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""></div></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">“Some of the things he said were so againt the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly,” Trump wrote, before taking one last dig at Trumka for being, “A Dem!”</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class="Tweet-header" style="color: rgb(28, 32, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Roboto, 'Segoe UI', Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget" data-scribe="component:author" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; overflow: hidden;"><a class="Identity u-linkBlend TweetAuthor-link" data-scribe="element:user_link" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" aria-label="Donald J. 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Some of the things he said were so against the working men and women of our country, and the success of the U.S. itself, that it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A Dem!</div><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(105, 120, 130); margin-top: 3.2px;"><a class="u-url long-permalink customisable-highlight u-linkBlend" data-datetime="2018-09-03T15:28:33+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1036637078640058368" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px;">11:28 AM - Sep 3, 2018</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Trump later deleted the tweet, which contained a spelling error, and replaced it with another that corrected the mistake.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">The post appeared to refer to criticism from Trumka on Sunday of the White House’s strategy in renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/shows/fox-news-sunday.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 98, 255);" class="">In an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” Trumka had said</a> the president had “done more to hurt workers than to help” them and said not including Canada in a renegotiated NAFTA would be a bad idea.</p><div class="tc tl-m ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;"><div data-enigma="true" data-slot="boxinline" data-sizes="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-render-on-view="true" data-targeting="{}" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><div id="div-mps-ad-boxinline-5" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">“The three countries in North America, the economy is pretty integrated. And it’s pretty hard to see how that would work without having Canada in the deal,” Trumka said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Trumka’s criticism came after<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035905988682018816" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 98, 255);" class=""> Trump had tweeted that “there</a> is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal,” adding that, “If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out.”</p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Trump’s latest remarks about Trumka, whose group has more than 12 million workers, prompted immediate blow back from Democrats, who drew attention to the fact that the posts came on Labor Day.</p><div class="tc tl-m ad-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;"><div data-enigma="true" data-slot="boxinline" data-sizes="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-render-on-view="true" data-targeting="{}" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><div id="div-mps-ad-boxinline-6" style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">“Just this morning he was tweeting against Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO. Look, I’m here to say on Labor Day, that working people, union people are fighting back,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said at an event Monday morning. “When unions fight back, all workers get stronger.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">Earlier this month, Trumka would not say a Trump endorsement was out of the question. “I don’t want to see in your story: Trumka says he’ll endorse Trump,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/08/03/will-the-nations-biggest-unions-endorse-trump-no-but-its-complicated/?utm_term=.31b5962e0c14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 98, 255);" class="">Trumka said, after being asked at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast</a> whether he'd back the president's re-election bid. “I’m not saying that. I’m saying, we’ll consider every candidate who’s running, and our members will help us decide that.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, TimesNewRoman, 'Times New Roman', Times, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">But he was critical of the overall impact of the president's policies on U.S. workers. “When he does something that’s right for workers, I tell workers around the country that he’s right,” Trumka said. “When he does something that’s bad for workers, I tell them it’s bad. And unfortunately, the number of things we’ve had to oppose is greater than the number of things we’ve been able to support."</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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