and putting into place people who are antiminimum wage. it was a con job and a fraud because donald trump is a con man. you joined us last night on the fly. it s your local president out there, chuck jones, who got into this situation with donald trump last night. and in the last 24 hours, it sure looks like chuck jones won this round. donald trump has shut up about it. well, look at, i think chuck did what any good local union leader should do. he went and got the facts and explained them to his membership. in fact, we ve been overwhelmed with responses on twitter and facebook of people saying i m with chuck.
principles. i mean, he is all about donald trump. he s about revenge. he s about dominance. he s about getting others to submit to him. in terms of the minimum wage, that is the farthest thing from donald trump s memory or imagination. but this guy that he has nominated for secretary of labor is not only opposed to the minimum wage, a federal minimum wage at all. he doesn t like the fact that there are overtime and time and a half for overtime regulations. he is opposed to president obama increasing the overtime regulations, the overtime hours. he also is very much against organized labor. he s an anti-labor, labor secretary. and in almost every respect, you couldn t imagine somebody who is further removed from being a champion of american workers. i mean, here we have donald trump who is bringing in mull multi-millionaires and llion
people who have observed him would agree is a pathological liar, who changes his mind every single day. and robert reich, there is the essence of the problem. it s whether donald trump even knows tonight that he once proposed an increase in the minimum wage. we can never even be sure of that. no. because the truth to donald trump is all relative. he lives in a fact-free universe. he makes up facts. and he does this continuously, and it s not just candidate donald trump. it s also president-elect donald trump. you know, the other night he was talking about being elected by a land slide. he keep the on talking about massive voter fraud. and in terms of labor and being a champion of working people, he has installed as his chief economic policymakers in terms of his cabinet, this person named steve mnuchin from, originally, from goldman sachs who has spent most of his life
a half for overtime regulations. he is opposed to president obama increasing the overtime regulations, the overtime hours. he also is very much against organized labor. he s an anti-labor, labor secretary. and in almost every respect, you couldn t imagine somebody who is further removed from being a champion of american workers. i mean, here we have donald trump who is bringing in mull t multi-millionaires and billionaires into his cabinet and putting into place people who are antiminimum wage. it was a con job and a fraud because donald trump is a con man. you joined us last night on the fly. it s your local president out
it added to donald trump s image among trump supporters as the champion of american workers, and now there is not one indication that anyone in the trump administration, including donald trump will propose an increase in the minimum wage or any policy idea that in any way benefits american workers. joining us now, robert reich, labor secretary under president clinton and is at university of california berkley. also with us, leo girard from the united steelworkers of america. so the new candidate for your old job strongly opposed to donald trump s campaign idea of raising the minimum wage to $10. an idea that i m not sure donald trump remembers he proposed. i doubt that he remembers it. lawrence, i don t think donald trump is very strong on