Vivek Ramaswamy calls Biden’s upcoming trip to UAW picket a ‘smokescreen’

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy mocked President Joe Biden‘s attempt to join in the United Auto Workers’ protest.

“Biden’s trip to ‘protest’ in Michigan is a smokescreen to deflect reality & the UAW strike is just a symptom of the deeper problem: a trifecta of rising prices + rising interest rates + stagnant wages,” Ramaswamy wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, Saturday.

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Biden announced this week he will travel to Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday to picket alongside UAW members who have been on strike for more than a week. This comes after UAW President Shawn Fain invited the president Friday morning to come to Detroit. Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su and White House adviser Gene Sperling had plans to travel to Detroit earlier in the week before canceling their trip.

“American workers deserve answers for horrendous economic policies & ‘civil service protections’ enjoyed by federal bureaucrats that ordinary workers don’t get,” Ramaswamy went on. “The picket line we need is in D.C., not Detroit. That’s the hard TRUTH.”

Ramaswamy called Biden out hours after former President Donald Trump issued his own condemnation on Truth Social. Trump said the president had already “sold [UAW members] down the river with his ridiculous all Electric Car Hoax.”

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Trump and Ramaswamy are two of 12 candidates vying for the Republican nomination. Additionally, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), political commentator Larry Elder, and businessman Perry Johnson are in the race.

The last time the UAW went on strike was in 2019, and in those six weeks, the largest auto union in the nation cost GM $3.6 billion. This time, the union is striking against all of the Big Three Detroit automakers. UAW boasts a membership of 400,000 in the United States. At the moment, only some of its members are on strike.