Ooohhh so here is where a ford worker called him "protector of pedofiles" and he got mad? Poor guy. If you watch the video, you can see how mad he gets for it.

Edit: the video in question is this:

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/13/trump-flips-off-ford-worker/

Ford can't hire techs cuz they don't pay shit. No robot with any amount of ai nonsense in it will ever be remotely capable of replacing a mechanic. When is it ok to get the acetylene torch out? How does the bolt FEEL as you undo it, is it about to snap? Do u need to pump heat into it and feed it some wax? Did you spill brake fluid on the customers paint? Was the customer concern duplicated before determining what the repair was? Who did the diagnostic work? Was it test driven and quality checked afterward? Was the customer made aware of any other potential issues down the road? Ai and robots may be able to help in menial and manufacturing tasks but would never be capable of repair in automotive, especially not anywhere rust is common !

There’s a lot of republicans working that factory floor that will ignore this.

During his visit to the plant on Tuesday, Trump flipped off a Ford worker and said “f*ck you” after the employee called him a “pedophile protector.”

A gentleman and scholar, folks.

He should be fired just like that cyclist who flipped him off during his first term.

I predict that robots are gonna be a big factor in the future and it’s gonna help out.

He really did peak in the '80s.

you’re gonna have a thing called robots, and robots are gonna be a big factor. I predict that robots are gonna be a big factor in the future and it’s gonna help out.

I mean, industrial robots have been a pretty prominent thing at auto manufacturers for an awfully long time.

EDIT:

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/183434/

Robot, First Unimate Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line, 1961

Unimate robots were the world's first successful industrial robots. The units, designed by Unimation Inc., could perform tasks in manufacturing facilities that were difficult, dangerous, or monotonous for human workers. This is the first Unimate ever used on an assembly line. It was installed at the General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1961 to unload a die-casting press.

lol imagine telling people you will get people jobs and reinvigorate the auto industry etc. and then telling people there are things called robots that will replace them and it’s a good thing the auto companies are shrinking the workforce.

I'm generally pro industrial automation (it's useful and as an engineer some of the most fun stuff to implement), but you can't go from 0-100, we've seen what that looks like with tesla. You have to slowly and steadily ramp it up. Also the laborers deserve compensation for being automated away

This is why Ford can't hire mechanics.

The company is designing everything in CAD with no consideration of maintainance, then simple jobs that should take 30 minutes can take 2 hours. Ford has a real problem with poor engineering. The same problem affects AUDI and most German brands.

You're gonna have a thing that you already had for 4 decades!

The president of the USA, people! Nobody is smarter than him!

...instead of raising wages.

And yet, tariffs were to bring manufacturing jobs back, right?

Idiot probably envisions C3PO and R2D2 building F250s.

Is this a quote from 30 years ago?

Praying for a Maduro Moment 🙏

We already have a thing called robots. Didn’t he say this in an assembly plant?

The father of modern robotics introducing us to the concept of robots everyone

He's so dumb