WATCH: President Trump Showered with Boos During Union Event
"About time we had a builder in the White House, right?" Trump told union members.
The resistance movement met Donald Trump head-on at North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) National Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., Thursday, as protesters serenaded the president with a cacophany of boos. Demonstrators bearing placards were escorted out shortly thereafter.
Afterward, Trump praised NABTU, which represents construction workers, as the "backbone of America.
"Ive spent my life working side by side with American builders. And now, you have a builder as your president, Trump said. We are a nation of builders, and it was about time we had a builder in the White House, right? We have a builder.
The protesters included members of the IBEW Local Union 569, which represents 3,400 electrical workers in San Diego and Imperial Valley and the San Diego Building Trades Council.
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