The president was in the Wolverine State to campaign for former Rep. Mike Rogers<\/a>, who is running unopposed for the Republican nomination in this year\u2019s open Senate race. Rogers, a former FBI agent, is expected to be in a close race against the winner of the hotly contested Democratic primary between Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. <\/p>\n But before Trump could bring Rogers on stage at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan<\/a>, he clearly had things he wanted to get off his chest. <\/p>\n Trump claimed Michigan\u2019s autoworkers had been \u201csold out and betrayed by globalist politicians and corrupt special interests\u201d for decades before he came into office, neglecting to mention how he raised import taxes on many of the auto parts used by the car makers. Then he set his sights on the head of the United Auto Workers union, Shawn Fain.<\/p>\n \u201cThis guy was bad news. I never spoke to him. Never saw him,\u201d Trump said as he attacked Fain as \u201ca Democrat\u201d and claimed there\u2019d be \u201cno auto industry\u201d had he not been reelected in 2024. <\/p>\n \u201cI don’t know what happened to the guy. Somebody said he got fired,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n Fain, an electrician by trade, remains the president of the UAW and has served in that role since 2023. But Trump, who dismissed the UAW endorsement of his former opponents, noted that \u201cthe people that count\u201d love him.<\/p>\n \u201cThose people love Trump because I’ve done more for you than your parents. OK, your parents are good. I’m not going to knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents. That I can tell you,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n The bizarre remark, delivered just nine minutes into what had been touted as an official White House speech on the economy but appeared more like a garden-variety Trump political rally, was just the opening salvo in a stem-winding address that touched on familiar grievances and treaded well-worn political talking points while offering little in the way of new policy announcements or reasons for voters to elect Rogers in a year Democrats are heavily favored to take control of the House and have an outside chance of seizing control of the Senate as well.<\/p>\n And, in a year when Latino voters are expected to be a key swing voting bloc, he mocked the Spanish-language pronunciation of America\u2019s largest trading partner as he recalled boasting to a group of donors about his vow to stop all trade from \u201cMeh-hee-hoo.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo I said to a group the other day, and we will stop all business going to MEH-hee-ho and they didn’t know what the hell I was talking about,\u201d he said, after claiming someone had corrected \u2014 apparently incorrectly \u2014 his pronunciation of Mexico. <\/p>\n He repeated the mocking pronunciation of America\u2019s southern neighbor several times more for good measure.<\/p>\n As he made his way through a combination of prepared remarks and off-teleprompter free-association, Trump polled the crowd about the best nickname for former President Joe Biden, complained about autoworkers\u2019 support for former president Barack Obama, and bashed the electric vehicle sector on which Detroit had hoped to retain dominance in the American auto sector before his administration slashed support for the next-generation cars at the behest of the petroleum industry.<\/p>\n After declaring America\u2019s auto industry \u201cback\u201d and praising the Wolverine State\u2019s \u201cgreat\u201d GOP representatives, he needed attendees to tell him which way they preferred for him to mock his predecessor.<\/p>\n \u201cSleepy Joe Biden or Crooked Joe Biden? Let’s go,\u201d he said, exhorting the crowd to cheer for each option. <\/p>\n He also railed against Democratic candidates in races across the country, tagging the entire opposition party as \u201ccommunists\u201d who \u201cdon’t want police and … don\u2019t want prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re running against communists,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want to take your houses, they want to do things that nobody\u2019s ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also mocked voter concerns over high prices that he hasn\u2019t managed to ease due to his tariff policies and continued war against Iran, telling the auto workers that \u201caffordability\u201d was only a concern of \u201cfake news.\u201d <\/p>\n He promised that the U.S. would \u201chave the greatest economy in the history of the country … very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n Finally, nearly an hour into his remarks, he began rattling off a list of candidates for office in Michigan, including Rogers, and invited him to speak for a few minutes while he took a break.<\/p>\n Rogers thanked him effusively and promised Trump that he\u2019d vote for the election restriction bill he has spent months demanding from the Senate despite there not being enough support for the bill in the upper chamber to pass.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s meandering hour-long speech in Michigan came just days after his similarly-long rant at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association\u2019s second attempt at an annual fundraising dinner devolved into an ugly display of insults that left the crowd of journalists stone-faced to an extent that led the president to lash out at his own speechwriters for giving him a \u201cfrickin\u2019 stupid speech\u201d to deliver to the gathering.<\/p>\n He used the opportunity to lash out at some of the very reporters with whom he\u2019d shaken hands moments ago as they were presented awards for their coverage of him and his administration, taking most direct aim at CNN anchor and White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins by repeating his frequent demand that she smile more<\/a> when she covers him and comparing her unfavorably to transgender influencer and former Book of Mormon performer Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n![\"Trump](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/download.-5..jpeg\")
Trump hardly mentioned the name of the Michigan Senate candidate he’d come to promote as he spoke to autoworkers at the General Motors Proving Ground (AP)<\/p>\n![\"President](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785189911_721_download...jpeg\")
President Donald Trump dances after speaking at an event at the General Motors Proving Ground Monday, (AP)<\/p>\n![\"Republican](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785189912_304_download...jpeg\")
Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers speaks as Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., Rep. John James, R-Mich., President Donald Trump and Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., listen at an event at the General Motors Proving Ground Monday (AP)<\/p>\n