Donald Trump loves to brag about how many people attend his events and there regularly are celebrations here about how enthusiastic the crowds at Trump rallies and speeches are.
Well and good, but it turns out the union workers who made up much of the crowd at Trump’s speech last week not only were paid to attend, but faced having their wages docked if they did not want to participate.
Forced attendance at the dear leader’s speeches. How North Korean of them.
Future brags about crowd enthusiasm should be subject to fact checking.
The inference that people have to be paid to attend Trump rallies is bs. I have been to Trump rallies and the enthusiasm is awesome. Lots of happy folks with the only angry folks being the lefties that drive by cursing or flipping people off(classy) .
Twice as many people wanting in as the capacity holds is the norm at such rallies.
The left is just upset that dem candidates can’t draw flies to their rallies.
It would be curious to see a large photo of a Trump rally in farm country from the last election with the farmers who no longer support him, because they’re struggling to pay their bills or teetering on bankruptcy, whited out.
The notion that the left is upset that it cannot hold such rallies is nonsense. The opposition to Trump turned out crowds fro the Women’s Marches that Trump supporters can only dream of.
The Democrats do not indulge in cult-of-personality rallies.
Its like this…the workers are told. Don’t show up for work this day, we are having an off site training, the president is the guest speaker. If you want to go…great badge in. If you don’t want to attend don’t. The company has a 56 hour work week. The last 16 hours are forced OT. If you don’t badge in you lose the ability to get paid your time and a half OT. Nobody lost their pay. They lost their OT pay.
Back in 1968, Bobby Kennedy was in Chicago for a mid day rally. He learned he was really close to Gary Indiana… steel country. He wanted a blue collar rally there. My Grandpa was President of one of two US steel workers unions. He had every union member of the Day Shift, and every union member that wasn’t working that day at that rally. Its a little different because they didn’t shut down the mill. But each member in attendance that day got paid. Those who didn’t come, or who weren’t at work didn’t get paid.
There was great interest in making sure that the ‘Obama campaign’ picked up it’s fair share of travel expenses when President Obama traveled to campaign events. I hope someone is keeping tabs on the Trump Campaign expense reports.
