Tim Walz Visibly Crushed as CNN’s Tapper Reads Union Support for Trump Tariffs

Well, so much for the narrative that President Trump’s tariffs are “anti-worker.” Despite the media doom and gloom and the usual hand-wringing from establishment Democrats like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, it turns out the people actually doing the work — union workers, no less — are standing squarely behind Trump’s America First trade policy.

Case in point: the United Auto Workers (UAW), which CNN’s Jake Tapper awkwardly reminded Walz on Sunday is now backing Trump’s bold 25% tariff on foreign-assembled vehicles (excluding Canada and Mexico). The same UAW that endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024 is now praising Trump for taking a sledgehammer to a broken system that’s been shipping union jobs overseas for decades.

“This is a long overdue shift away from a harmful economic framework that has devastated the working class,” the UAW statement read. Oof. Poor Walz looked like someone just told him his Prius was being replaced with a Ford F-150. His usual sarcasm vanished faster than a Biden polling lead in Ohio.

What we’re witnessing here is a working-class realignment in real-time. The same union bosses who bashed Trump in 2024 are now watching their rank-and-file cheer him on as manufacturing jobs return to America. Take Honda, for instance — they’re moving production of the 2025 Civic from Guadalajara, Mexico to Indiana. That’s real-world proof that Trump’s tariffs work. And Ford followed up with a deal letting new customers buy vehicles at employee prices. So not only are we seeing jobs come back, but prices are coming down. How’s that for economic populism?

And it’s not just the UAW. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien — a guy who spoke at the Republican National Convention last August — said it loud and clear: “President Trump could cure cancer and the Democrats would still be opposed to him.” That’s not just a punchline — that’s the truth. O’Brien commissioned a poll of his own members, and 63% said they were voting for Trump. That’s why, for the first time since 1996, the Teamsters didn’t endorse a Democrat.

The writing is on the wall: America’s working men and women are done being pawns for globalist policies and eco-fantasies that benefit Wall Street and China. They want jobs, factories, and paychecks — not solar panels and bureaucratic lectures. And for the first time in decades, they’ve got a president who’s fighting for them.