President Obama on Thursday rejected the idea that Donald Trump will help working people, and said everything in Trump’s history shows that he won’t.
“The thing that really gets me is this notion that he’s going to be a voice for working people,” Obama said Thursday during a rally for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
“I just want talk to them and say, ‘hey guys,'” Obama said about blue-collar workers who are backing the real estate mogul. Trump “has spent 70 years on this earth showing no respect for working people,” Obama claimed.
“He spent all of his time trying to hang out with rich people and celebrities,” Obama continued. “He’s not someone who’s gone around working to make sure people’s wages are higher.” Trump “hasn’t spent a lot of time with folks who are struggling pay check to pay check, unless it’s somebody cleaning in one of his buildings or someone mowing one of his fairways. So how can he be a champion for working people?”
He said Sen. Marco Rubio once said Trump “‘has spent a career sticking it to working people.’ Sounds about right.”
Obama encouraged voters to support the first-term Republican’s opponent, Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, in the Sunshine State’s Senate race.
During the Republican primary when Rubio was competing against Trump, he tweeted “friends don’t let friends vote for con artists,'” Obama quoted. Well, Rubio said he voted for Trump, “which means he didn’t have any good friends,” Obama quipped.
