In his desperation to lock another 4 years in for himself, Donald Trump made damn sure that he secured a 30-second slot for a MAGA ad during the upcoming Super Bowl, which has an estimated 100 million viewers expected to tune in.
Trump eagerly debuted the half-minute ad set to air during the highly anticipated on Thursday, which features clips of various MAGA rallies and speeches as well as footage from a speech Trump recently gave at a petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania, complete with sections showing a crowded room full of workers all seemingly tuned in to his address — ultimately touting the claim that Trump’s presidency has made the United States “stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before.
Here’s the kicker, though — those folks depicted as happy-go-lucky Trump supporters during the chemical plant speech footage, who were supposedly willing and eager to partake in Donald’s deliverance, were actually Shell plant workers who were essentially forced to attend the makeshift MAGA rally at the risk of not receiving their pay.
While the workers weren’t expressly told that they HAD to attend the presidential speech, a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette explains that the Royal Dutch Shell petrochemical plant workers were clearly warned that if they didn’t show up to the Trump speech, they would not be receiving their pay for that day.
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette alleges that the thousands of Shell plant workers were given the option to stay home on the day that Donald Trump would be present but keeping their pay if they sat out the MAGA speech would not be an option.
“Your attendance is not mandatory,” the memo sent out to the plant employees read. But it wasn’t that simple. The rules laid out in the memo went on to explain that if an employee did not show up to work at 7 am that day, scan their ID card into the system, and agree to stand in the hallway, on their feet, through their entire lunch break (and without taking an actual lunch) that they would not be paid.
“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” a supervisor for the Shell plant wrote in the memo.
One anonymous plant employee explained to the Post-Gazette the gravity of not showing up to work that day, stating, “one day of work might amount to about $700 in pay, benefits, and a per diem payment that out-of-town workers receive.”
Trump’s upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring the Shell plant workers is one of two 30-second ads that the Trump campaign reportedly spent a total of $11 million on, scheduled to air during the game.
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