Donald Trump has heralded his record on workers, vowing to be a voice for the working classes on the campaign trail, but the head of a global unions group is not convinced.
International Trade Union Confederation chief Luc Triangle told AFP that Trump’s previous years proved he could not be trusted in office.
“I don’t believe him, knowing what he did in the first four years. He was not the president of workers,” Triangle said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
By coincidence of timing, the forum began just as Trump was sworn in on Monday as the United States’ 47th president.
Trump, who spurred trade wars during his first term in office between 2017 and 2021, has vowed to impose sweeping new tariffs against commercial partners like China as well as Washington’s strongest allies including Canada and the European Union.
In his inaugural address,
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