How a Blue-Collar Billionaire From Queens Became a Man of th

[nu5ncbigred]

How a Blue-Collar Billionaire From Queens Became a Man of the People

Todd Starnes

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Trump announced that he will usher our great nation into the Golden Age. And he will do so with an indisputable mandate from the American people.

And I never doubted it – not once. Many in the conservative world were dismissive of my optimism. I predicted weeks ago that Trump would win – and he would win bigly.


Some called me foolhardy. Others delusional. But I tend to be a pretty good reader of people.

I’m not an Upper East Side pundit or an Inside-the-Beltway politico. My roots are blue collar. Grew up in the Southern states. Had to work my way through school.

I go to church on Sundays. I was raised to say yes ma’am and no sir. I was taught to respect our flag and honor our military.

God. Country. Family. Those were the values by which I was guided.

But over the past four years – those values have been under assault by the left. Foundational values for our Republic. I actually discussed these matters with Trump directly in my book, "Twilight's Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved?"

The Justice Department was literally weaponized to take down President Trump, his administration and his supporters.

Pro-lifers were subjected to the most outrageous behavior. Jack-booted thugs – knocking down the doors of their homes. Guns drawn – pre-dawn raids.

Heather Idoni is a 75-year-old grandmother. She was sent to federal prison for two years. Her crime was to pray and sing hymns outside an abortion clinic.

Parents who raised concerned about the transgender movement got visits from FBI agents. Same thing happened to law-abiding gun owners.


The military was caught red-handed indoctrinating officers that evangelical Christians and devout Catholics were domestic terrorists.

And the FBI admitted they had infiltrated Roman Catholic parishes – trying to recruit priests to spy on the congregation.

Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon were sent to federal prison because they refused to testify before the J6 committee. Four months in jail – contempt of Congress.

Make no mistake – those two men were political prisoners of the Biden/Harris administration. Punished because of their allegiance to Donald Trump.

Young men in America have been especially put upon – told their masculinity was a genetic defect. The Left mentally neutered an entire generation – turning red-blooded American guys into effeminate soy boys.

The Democrats' idea of masculinity is Tampon Tim Walz and Dougie, the guy who knocked up the family's nanny.

The media is in full-blown attack mode. They still don’t understand that their behavior – their allegiance to the Democrats – was partly to blame for the downfall of the Left.

I will give credit to The New York Times, though. Opinion writer Bret Stephens said he voted for Harris – but blamed the Democrat Party for the loss. Calling them a “Party of Prigs and Pontificators.”


The Democrat Party abandoned their supporters – leaving them alone in war-torn Washington, D.C., to weep and gnash their teeth.

How unkind of Kamala. How ungracious. Nobody likes a sore loser.

Over the years, they've called us Nazis and xenophobes and fascists. The governor of New York called us anti-Americans.

They mocked blue-collar workers. They demeaned people of faith. They called us ignorant – garbage.

But President Trump, the blue-collar billionaire from Queens, called us his fellow countrymen. And today – we call him president-elect.

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[Walter]

I'd bet the farm that Donald Trump never worked a single minute at a blue collar job in his entire life. Not a single minute.
What a freakin' insult to anyone who did, or does.

[nu5ncbigred]

Nov 7, 2024 11:53:41 GMT -5 Walter said:

I'd bet the farm that Donald Trump never worked a single minute at a blue collar job in his entire life. Not a single minute.
What a freakin' insult to anyone who did, or does.

He lived his early life around construction sites. We are not offended. We are grateful that he ID’s with us and supports us in the face of what establishment urban globalist elites have done to us

[Walter]

Nov 7, 2024 12:38:58 GMT -5 nu5ncbigred said:

Nov 7, 2024 11:53:41 GMT -5 Walter said:

I'd bet the farm that Donald Trump never worked a single minute at a blue collar job in his entire life. Not a single minute.
What a freakin' insult to anyone who did, or does.

He lived his early life around construction sites. We are not offended. We are grateful that he ID’s with us and supports us in the face of what establishment urban globalist elites have done to us

If you think for a minute Trump ever lifted a hammer, wielded a shovel, troweled a single square foot of concrete, or fed a mason a block, you have seriously bumped your head.
Now you're insulting me. He doesn't ID with anyone who does that kind of work. Just stop it.

[daleko]

Nov 7, 2024 11:53:41 GMT -5 Walter said:

I'd bet the farm that Donald Trump never worked a single minute at a blue collar job in his entire life. Not a single minute.
What a freakin' insult to anyone who did, or does.

And FDR, JFK identified w the "common man". I guess I missed the context you were addressing.

[Walter]

Nov 7, 2024 14:11:05 GMT -5 daleko said:

Nov 7, 2024 11:53:41 GMT -5 Walter said:

I'd bet the farm that Donald Trump never worked a single minute at a blue collar job in his entire life. Not a single minute.
What a freakin' insult to anyone who did, or does.

And FDR, JFK identified w the "common man". I guess I missed the context you were addressing.

Two other rich guys striking the pose and pretending they took showers at the end of the day instead of before it started.
I'm not impressed.
Blue collar, particularly hands-on, physical, blue collar labor has meaning that, unless you've done it, you would have a hard time understanding.

[nu5ncbigred]

Nov 7, 2024 14:33:40 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 7, 2024 14:11:05 GMT -5 daleko said:

And FDR, JFK identified w the "common man". I guess I missed the context you were addressing.

Two other rich guys striking the pose and pretending they took showers at the end of the day instead of before it started.
I'm not impressed.
Blue collar, particularly hands-on, physical, blue collar labor has meaning that, unless you've done it, you would have a hard time understanding.

You have no idea how he was raised. Or what he did as a young adult. He was pro American worker and anti NAFTA and anti letting China into the WTO for decades going back to when I thought both were good ideas. He was right and I was wrong. It was the those you describe who were Trumps base of support

[daleko]

Nov 7, 2024 14:33:40 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 7, 2024 14:11:05 GMT -5 daleko said:

And FDR, JFK identified w the "common man". I guess I missed the context you were addressing.

Two other rich guys striking the pose and pretending they took showers at the end of the day instead of before it started.
I'm not impressed.
Blue collar, particularly hands-on, physical, blue collar labor has meaning that, unless you've done it, you would have a hard time understanding.

Thank you. Then you could add Obama and Clinton. Or Bush I/II, Nixon, Truman, Ike, ........... But that's not my thought. No POTUS is really Blue Color, ah maybe Jimmy Carter who worked at being a farmer and LBJ who grew up dirt poor.

But the term, used as a description could apply, much the same as they use the term "lunch pail type of player" to describe some athletes. In essence The All Madden Team. Blue Collar Players. Though guys making $5-55MM per yr playing sports will hardly be mistaken for $50M/yr sheetrockers. But those sheetrockers sure attach themselves to these athletes. Ya they play FB like I hang rock. They carry a lunch pail to work. The fact that they don't matters not.

[mscott59]

Nov 7, 2024 11:49:01 GMT -5 nu5ncbigred said:

How a Blue-Collar Billionaire From Queens Became a Man of the People

Todd Starnes

AP Photo/Evan Vucci

President Trump announced that he will usher our great nation into the Golden Age. And he will do so with an indisputable mandate from the American people.

And I never doubted it – not once. Many in the conservative world were dismissive of my optimism. I predicted weeks ago that Trump would win – and he would win bigly.


Some called me foolhardy. Others delusional. But I tend to be a pretty good reader of people.

I’m not an Upper East Side pundit or an Inside-the-Beltway politico. My roots are blue collar. Grew up in the Southern states. Had to work my way through school.

neither are mine. dad was a minister, mom a housewife and mother of 5. both grew up relatively poorly in appalachia. 4 years of work study along w/grants and a small scholarship got me thru college.

I go to church on Sundays. so do i. I was raised to say yes ma’am and no sir.so was i. I was taught to respect our flag and honor our military. so was i. still do.

God. Country. Family. Those were the values by which I was guided. ditto

But over the past four years – those values have been under assault by the left. bullshit. Foundational values for our Republic. I actually discussed these matters with Trump directly in my book, "Twilight's Last Gleaming: Can America Be Saved?"

The Justice Department was literally weaponized to take down President Trump, his administration and his supporters. false.

Pro-lifers were subjected to the most outrageous behavior. Jack-booted thugs – knocking down the doors of their homes. Guns drawn – pre-dawn raids. so have those who favor a woman's right over her body.

Heather Idoni is a 75-year-old grandmother. She was sent to federal prison for two years. Her crime was to pray and sing hymns outside an abortion clinic. since 1993 at least 11 people have been killed in attacks on abortion clinics and doctors who worked at them

Parents who raised concerned about the transgender movement got visits from FBI agents. Same thing happened to law-abiding gun owners. what concerns and how were they raised? what were the law abiding gun owners doing?


The military was caught red-handed indoctrinating officers that evangelical Christians and devout Catholics were domestic terrorists.

And the FBI admitted they had infiltrated Roman Catholic parishes – trying to recruit priests to spy on the congregation.

Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon were sent to federal prison because they refused to testify before the J6 committee. Four months in jail – contempt of Congress.contempt of congress is a punishable crime.

Make no mistake – those two men were political prisoners of the Biden/Harris administration. Punished because of their allegiance to Donald Trump. lmao

Young men in America have been especially put upon – told their masculinity was a genetic defect. The Left mentally neutered an entire generation – turning red-blooded American guys into effeminate soy boys. false

The Democrats' idea of masculinity is Tampon Tim Walz and Dougie, the guy who knocked up the family's nanny. is that how people of god, country and family speak about their neighbors?

The media is in full-blown attack mode. attack mode? by doing what? showing/quoting the exact words trump utters?They still don’t understand that their behavior – their allegiance to the Democrats – was partly to blame for the downfall of the Left.debatable

I will give credit to The New York Times, though. Opinion writer Bret Stephens said he voted for Harris – but blamed the Democrat Party for the loss. Calling them a “Party of Prigs and Pontificators.” finally, at least a nugget of truth from this guy. the dems have lots and lots of work to do to regain the confidence of many american voters.


The Democrat Party abandoned their supporters – leaving them alone in war-torn Washington, D.C., to weep and gnash their teeth. what?

How unkind of Kamala. How ungracious. Nobody likes a sore loser. do sore losers call their opponent and congratulate them on winning the election? Harris did yesterday. so did biden. what did trump do in '20? silence. doubled down by not even attending the inauguration, unlike most presidents.

Over the years, they've called us Nazis and xenophobes and fascists. The governor of New York called us anti-Americans.

They mocked blue-collar workers. the democrats mocked blue collar workers? while courting them and begging them for their votes? lmao They demeaned people of faith. demaned? no. questioned the hypocrisy of many conservative claiming god wanted trump to be president when he's exhibited so many times it's difficult to comprehend behavior and actions counter to the fundamental principles of every western faith based organization? They called us ignorant – garbage.

But President Trump, the blue-collar billionaire from Queens blue collar billionaire. nothing about trump has EVER been blue collar. he screwed thousands of companies and thousands upon thousand of employees from those companies after filing bankrupcy reorg 6 different times, has been notorious for going back on contracts, et al, called us his fellow countrymen so did harris. and biden. and the clintons and the bush's, and every presidential candidate in history . And today – we call him president-elect. how 'bout that... this guy finally said something truly truthful. that's what we all now call him. ha.

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[Walter]

Nov 7, 2024 15:29:05 GMT -5 daleko said:

Nov 7, 2024 14:33:40 GMT -5 Walter said:

Two other rich guys striking the pose and pretending they took showers at the end of the day instead of before it started.
I'm not impressed.
Blue collar, particularly hands-on, physical, blue collar labor has meaning that, unless you've done it, you would have a hard time understanding.

Thank you. Then you could add Obama and Clinton. Or Bush I/II, Nixon, Truman, Ike, ........... But that's not my thought. No POTUS is really Blue Color, ah maybe Jimmy Carter who worked at being a farmer and LBJ who grew up dirt poor.

But the term, used as a description could apply, much the same as they use the term "lunch pail type of player" to describe some athletes. In essence The All Madden Team. Blue Collar Players. Though guys making $5-55MM per yr playing sports will hardly be mistaken for $50M/yr sheetrockers. But those sheetrockers sure attach themselves to these athletes. Ya they play FB like I hang rock. They carry a lunch pail to work. The fact that they don't matters not.

I don't mind anyone claiming that Trump may (or more likely), may not 'stand up' for blue collar workers, or that blue collar workers might approve of him for doing so, or not; just don't piss on my leg and try to tell me that he ever actually carried that lunch pail or ever actually toiled in obscurity in the trenches as Madden described about linemen. He was the bosses' son, after all. In CFB terms, he was the Arch Manning of NY real estate, hardly the kind of player Madden had in mind.

[daleko]

Nov 7, 2024 16:15:51 GMT -5 Walter said:

Nov 7, 2024 15:29:05 GMT -5 daleko said:

Thank you. Then you could add Obama and Clinton. Or Bush I/II, Nixon, Truman, Ike, ........... But that's not my thought. No POTUS is really Blue Color, ah maybe Jimmy Carter who worked at being a farmer and LBJ who grew up dirt poor.

But the term, used as a description could apply, much the same as they use the term "lunch pail type of player" to describe some athletes. In essence The All Madden Team. Blue Collar Players. Though guys making $5-55MM per yr playing sports will hardly be mistaken for $50M/yr sheetrockers. But those sheetrockers sure attach themselves to these athletes. Ya they play FB like I hang rock. They carry a lunch pail to work. The fact that they don't matters not.

I don't mind anyone claiming that Trump may (or more likely), may not 'stand up' for blue collar workers, or that blue collar workers might approve of him for doing so, or not; just don't piss on my leg and try to tell me that he ever actually carried that lunch pail or ever actually toiled in obscurity in the trenches as Madden described about linemen. He was the bosses' son, after all. In CFB terms, he was the Arch Manning of NY real estate, hardly the kind of player Madden had in mind.

Thanks again. <shrug> For me, the term "blue-collar" is generally, today, metaphorical, and it's not a description of typical present apparel or job. That you may not think it applies to Trump's work product is OK by me. That others do is also OK by me. My intrusion was more aligned w the term, today, has a wider application than the type of work or apparel. Harry Truman may have been a Blue Collar POTUS but he wasn't ever a blue collar worker. Not for a second.

[oujour76]

Nov 7, 2024 16:35:26 GMT -5 daleko said:

Nov 7, 2024 16:15:51 GMT -5 Walter said:

I don't mind anyone claiming that Trump may (or more likely), may not 'stand up' for blue collar workers, or that blue collar workers might approve of him for doing so, or not; just don't piss on my leg and try to tell me that he ever actually carried that lunch pail or ever actually toiled in obscurity in the trenches as Madden described about linemen. He was the bosses' son, after all. In CFB terms, he was the Arch Manning of NY real estate, hardly the kind of player Madden had in mind.

Thanks again. <shrug> For me, the term "blue-collar" is generally, today, metaphorical, and it's not a description of typical present apparel or job. That you may not think it applies to Trump's work product is OK by me. That others do is also OK by me. My intrusion was more aligned w the term, today, has a wider application than the type of work or apparel. Harry Truman may have been a Blue Collar POTUS but he wasn't ever a blue collar worker. Not for a second.

Don’t know about that re: HST. He ran and worked on his family farm for 10-15 years. That’s blue collar in my book.

[Walter]

Nov 7, 2024 16:46:18 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Nov 7, 2024 16:35:26 GMT -5 daleko said:

Thanks again. <shrug> For me, the term "blue-collar" is generally, today, metaphorical, and it's not a description of typical present apparel or job. That you may not think it applies to Trump's work product is OK by me. That others do is also OK by me. My intrusion was more aligned w the term, today, has a wider application than the type of work or apparel. Harry Truman may have been a Blue Collar POTUS but he wasn't ever a blue collar worker. Not for a second.

Don’t know about that re: HST. He ran and worked on his family farm for 10-15 years. That’s blue collar in my book.

I've never set foot on a real working farm, but just about every bit of it looks damn blue collar to me.
RESPECT!!

[arkon]

Trump is NOT blue collar.
He's orange, and being orange doesn't make him redneck.
All he's about is the green. And the silver spoon he was born sucking on.

Oh, and he's a yellow bellied coward, too.

[daleko]

Nov 7, 2024 16:46:18 GMT -5 oujour76 said:

Nov 7, 2024 16:35:26 GMT -5 daleko said:

Thanks again. <shrug> For me, the term "blue-collar" is generally, today, metaphorical, and it's not a description of typical present apparel or job. That you may not think it applies to Trump's work product is OK by me. That others do is also OK by me. My intrusion was more aligned w the term, today, has a wider application than the type of work or apparel. Harry Truman may have been a Blue Collar POTUS but he wasn't ever a blue collar worker. Not for a second.

Don’t know about that re: HST. He ran and worked on his family farm for 10-15 years. That’s blue collar in my book.

My bad, he went from a banker to the family farm for ten years. Though he sometimes worked in the fields from time to time, he was never a regular part of the farm work force, most say. He'd do this and that. Oversee a lot.