He just exposed what we’ve known all along: he and the GOP don’t actually care about the working class. It’s just talking points to them. Anyone against overtime pay is a scab and sides with the ultra rich, not with the working class.
Ban-Circumcision-Now on
It’s easy to promise no taxes in overtime pay while also wanting to get rid of overtime
Everyone can work 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay!
Sunshinehappyfeet on
“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.”
Just how many of Trump’s “other people” were undocumented migrants? And knowing Trump, he probably didn’t pay them.
Vote Blue.
5minArgument on
Queue the response:
“Haha, he didn’t mean what he said”…
See also:
”the reason I like him is he says what he means”
Squirrel_Chucks on
>“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.”
See you don’t have to worry about taxes on overtime pay if you get screwed out of your overtime pay.
swazal on
Interesting … the amount of overtime he paid out is exactly the amount of overtime he got paid *for*.
YamahaRyoko on
>“I know a lot about overtime,” [the Republican candidate boasted](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1840476603681272243). “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.”
We know.
Almost every business in America operates on polices just like this 😒
That, and reducing hours to avoid paying for benefits
And
>The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) estimates that approximately **72%** of employers are not in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which regulates overtime pay across the country.
jailfortrump on
This is just another way to allocate even more of the money to the wealthy corporations, only this time in unimaginable amounts. This evil man does not care about average Americans at all.
hdiggyh on
Does he have a single policy that actually would help anyone other than corporations or the rich? Madness anyone votes for this guy
Za_Lords_Guard on
Project 2025 also proposed changed to OT calculations, including basing it on 2 or 4 weeks total hours, not 1. So they might not tax it, but you won’t be getting as much of it either.
That all starts on page 592 if anyone thinks it’s made up.
> "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.”
wage theft is ALREADY a multi billion dollar problem
thisactuallymatters on
I honestly didn’t know he was capable of telling the truth, even by accident.
Ornery-Ticket834 on
What a shock. Not that he is a cheap bitch, but that he actually told the truth about it.
robtk12 on
He not pushing to double my salary either
crocodial on
I see the contradiction with his ‘man of the people’ shtick, but outside that there isn’t anything wrong with avoiding overtime by bringing in another worker. It means the employer has to pay extra for forcing an employee to do more than is expected OR hire more workers to cover the expected workload.
old_and_boring_guy on
He has an absurd history of shafting small businesses and blue collar workers. He’s been doing it for decades.
I never understood how that stuff alone wasn’t enough to sink him.
FarAdministration148 on
He didn’t ’accidentally’ do it. He KNEW what he was about to say shouldn’t be said, and he STILL SAID IT. It’s appalling to witness his complete inability to exercise self-restraint on a daily basis.
EDIT: corrected a typo
ZogLok on
It was sarcasm….a joke. BLACKS FOR TRUMP
merrysunshine2 on
Donald’s an ass, news at 11
Hattrick42 on
I am not a Trump fan, but how is this considered outrageous? This is pretty common practice at most jobs. Companies don’t like paying more than they have to for labor and hiring more staff is one way to alleviate overtime. That’s part of the reason overtime has those rules so companies won’t burn out employees and will instead hire more people.
ButterscotchBloozDad on
Dude’s “faux populism” has been a sham for the get go.
THE MAGAS DON’T CARE!
Fear and hate drive their numbers. They hate everything and everyone associated with what they have been told is “leftist” which is a monolith of everything from education to not salting one’s own earth.
The point is that they are gone and getting psyop’d into their next devolution.
LevitationalPush on
It very literally does not matter what he says.
J-the-Kidder on
You mean to tell me Trump explains one of his favorite ways of not paying vendors and saving money? Go on Donnie, this wasn’t covered at Trump U.
Canucklehead_Esq on
I shouldn’t have to say this but – why would anyone even consider voting for this monstrosity of a person?
Spider-Nutz on
Everything he says alludes to him destroying America. He wants 20% tarrifs on all imports which effectively means +20% inflation and the death of American exports as countries are free to not buy from us.
Getting rid of overtime pay, means the death of American manufacturing. I work in steel. If you kill overtime, nobody would work. 80% of the guys I work with rely on overtime to have a successful life and its their overtime hours that keep our plant running.
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He just exposed what we’ve known all along: he and the GOP don’t actually care about the working class. It’s just talking points to them. Anyone against overtime pay is a scab and sides with the ultra rich, not with the working class.
It’s easy to promise no taxes in overtime pay while also wanting to get rid of overtime
Everyone can work 80 hour weeks with no overtime pay!
“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.”
Just how many of Trump’s “other people” were undocumented migrants? And knowing Trump, he probably didn’t pay them.
Vote Blue.
Queue the response:
“Haha, he didn’t mean what he said”…
See also:
”the reason I like him is he says what he means”
>“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.”
See you don’t have to worry about taxes on overtime pay if you get screwed out of your overtime pay.
Interesting … the amount of overtime he paid out is exactly the amount of overtime he got paid *for*.
>“I know a lot about overtime,” [the Republican candidate boasted](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1840476603681272243). “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.”
We know.
Almost every business in America operates on polices just like this 😒
That, and reducing hours to avoid paying for benefits
And
>The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) estimates that approximately **72%** of employers are not in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which regulates overtime pay across the country.
This is just another way to allocate even more of the money to the wealthy corporations, only this time in unimaginable amounts. This evil man does not care about average Americans at all.
Does he have a single policy that actually would help anyone other than corporations or the rich? Madness anyone votes for this guy
Project 2025 also proposed changed to OT calculations, including basing it on 2 or 4 weeks total hours, not 1. So they might not tax it, but you won’t be getting as much of it either.
That all starts on page 592 if anyone thinks it’s made up.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/overtime-pay-trump-slips-accidentally-telling-truth-rcna173223) reduced by 76%. (I’m a bot)
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> Former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump on Sunday admitted he "Hated" to pay his staff overtime and would instead replace them with other workers to avoid doing so.
> "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.”
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wage theft is ALREADY a multi billion dollar problem
I honestly didn’t know he was capable of telling the truth, even by accident.
What a shock. Not that he is a cheap bitch, but that he actually told the truth about it.
He not pushing to double my salary either
I see the contradiction with his ‘man of the people’ shtick, but outside that there isn’t anything wrong with avoiding overtime by bringing in another worker. It means the employer has to pay extra for forcing an employee to do more than is expected OR hire more workers to cover the expected workload.
He has an absurd history of shafting small businesses and blue collar workers. He’s been doing it for decades.
I never understood how that stuff alone wasn’t enough to sink him.
He didn’t ’accidentally’ do it. He KNEW what he was about to say shouldn’t be said, and he STILL SAID IT. It’s appalling to witness his complete inability to exercise self-restraint on a daily basis.
EDIT: corrected a typo
It was sarcasm….a joke. BLACKS FOR TRUMP
Donald’s an ass, news at 11
I am not a Trump fan, but how is this considered outrageous? This is pretty common practice at most jobs. Companies don’t like paying more than they have to for labor and hiring more staff is one way to alleviate overtime. That’s part of the reason overtime has those rules so companies won’t burn out employees and will instead hire more people.
Dude’s “faux populism” has been a sham for the get go.
THE MAGAS DON’T CARE!
Fear and hate drive their numbers. They hate everything and everyone associated with what they have been told is “leftist” which is a monolith of everything from education to not salting one’s own earth.
The point is that they are gone and getting psyop’d into their next devolution.
It very literally does not matter what he says.
You mean to tell me Trump explains one of his favorite ways of not paying vendors and saving money? Go on Donnie, this wasn’t covered at Trump U.
I shouldn’t have to say this but – why would anyone even consider voting for this monstrosity of a person?
Everything he says alludes to him destroying America. He wants 20% tarrifs on all imports which effectively means +20% inflation and the death of American exports as countries are free to not buy from us.
Getting rid of overtime pay, means the death of American manufacturing. I work in steel. If you kill overtime, nobody would work. 80% of the guys I work with rely on overtime to have a successful life and its their overtime hours that keep our plant running.