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kpete

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Thu Mar 8, 2018, 05:29 PM Mar 2018

"Your father Herman is looking down on you," Trump tells a worker who gave brief remarks... "

"Your father Herman is looking down on you,"
Trump tells a worker who gave brief remarks.
"He's very proud."

"He's still alive," the worker says.



President Trump mistakenly referred to a steel worker’s father as dead Thursday after the man offered praise for Trump’s newly-announced tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Scott Sauritch, the president of United Steelworkers Union local 2227, spoke at the event about his father who lost his job in the steel industry.

"Your father, Herman, is looking down,” Trump said. “He's very proud of you right now."

"Oh, he's still alive,” Sauritch replied as he and other steel workers brought to the event in the White House Roosevelt Room chuckled and applauded.

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MORE plus VIDEO:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377478-steel-worker-corrects-trump-in-awkward-exchange-my-dad-is-still-alive





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"Your father Herman is looking down on you," Trump tells a worker who gave brief remarks... " (Original Post) kpete Mar 2018 OP
Trump opens his mouth and sounds the fool Angry Dragon Mar 2018 #1
Not so hard to believe that Herman looks down on his son for sucking up to Trump. Girard442 Mar 2018 #2
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