UAW president has his Hulk Hogan moment at DNC with ‘Trump is a scab’ t-shirt
United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain had his very own Hulk Hogan moment as he revealed a red T-shirt reading “Trump is a scab” to a roaring crowd at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaking on the opening night of the convention, Fain blasted Donald Trump for his failure to support American workers and threw his support behind Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
“For us in the labor movement, it’s real simple,” said Fain, whose union represents roughly 370,000 workers. “Kamala Harris is one of us, she’s a fighter for the working class, and Donald Trump is a scab.”
Trump and his running mate JD Vance are “lap dogs for the billionaire class, who only serve themselves,” he added.
“In the words of the great American poet Nelly: ‘It’s getting hot in here,’” he said, as he removed his jacket to unveil his shirt beneath. “It’s hot in here because you’re fired up and fed up. The American working class is in a fight for our lives.”
His shirt reveal echoed a cartoonish moment on the stage of the Republican National Convention, where former wrestling star Hogan ripped off his shirt to reveal a “Trump-Vance” tank top.
“Trump did nothing,” said Fain, pointing to the former president’s failed promise to revive a shuttered manufacturing plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that left thousands of workers unemployed.
Fain’s union is among several influential labor groups endorsing Harris’s campaign. The first night of the DNC in Chicago heard from more than half a dozen union leaders representing millions of American workers.
“We are going to build a younger, darker, hipper, fresher, sneaker-wearing labor movement,” said Service Employees International Union president April Verrett, whose union represents nearly two million