Blue-collar workers fucked around when they voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they're finding out.

Voters without college degrees backed Trump over then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 points, according to exit polling. Yet August's jobs report showed that industries whose workers often do not possess college degrees have lost jobs, in part thanks to Trump's nonsensical trade policy.

The jobs report showed that the mining industry—which Trump has touted he is saving—lost 6,000 jobs in August.

Meanwhile, the construction industry—hit hard by tariffs and the rising price of materials—lost 7,000 jobs. And truck transportation lost 900 jobs.

However, aside from the government—which took a massive hit thanks to now-former co-President Elon Musk’s destructive Department of Government E

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