He seems that way to me. Yet the press hardly sees it that way.
Trump must be the most pro-USA worker President in years. He won the labor vote as a Republican, which is not easy to do since the Democrats always win the labor vote.
He’s also a big government type of builder, for 1 trillion dollars on the USA infrastructure, and for a border wall to prevent illegal immigration and drugs.
Trump is a chameleon. He will say anything that he thinks people want to hear.
trump was “a Democrat” to the degree that he needed be to do business in NY and not a millimeter more.
He means action with the wall for sure.
It remains to be seen if he’s serious about his trillion dollar infrasctrue plan, but I think there are some Democrats that will get on board with this idea.
My take on Trump is he says what he means, unless he’s baited, then he goes a bit overboard.
He lost a court case for underpaying illegal workers, he buys Chinese steel and aluminum, he has said the minimum wage is too high, his first pick for Labor Secretary want’s to eliminate workers in favor of robots, Trump’s products are all made overseas with no plan to bring them here, his infrastructure plan is mainly for businesses to choose a project with potential for profit, not by what is needed doing, the wall will not keep out the workers who are coming here for jobs Americans won’t do(assuming the wall is ever built) and the wall won’t stop drugs.
And that’s barely scratching the surface.
That’s just
The “trillion dollar infrastructure plan” isn’t a trillion dollars of US government spending. Rather, it’s a package of ~$100 billion in tax credits for private investors and developers.
Want some more toll bridges? And consider who benefits from that…
Trump is very much in favor of people working. He just doesn’t want them to get paid for that work.
If fish were as easily “baited” as Trump, there’d be an end to hunger. 
So far, Trump has “meant what he said” when it came to cracking down on immigrants, nominating a right-wing Supreme Court Justice, rolling back environmental protections, and trying to defund Planned Parenthood and destroy the Affordable Care Act. Has he followed through on any promises that the Democrats could remotely support?
Trump’s too ideologically incoherent to be an ideological purist. But given the right-wingers surrounding him, I’m not expecting him to pursue any liberal or even center-left agenda items any time soon.
How so?
Does he? He says he’s going to produce a lot of things that he doesn’t end up doing. Is there any reason to think the wall is any different?
The Dems already made a proposal for an infrastructure plan. Trump didn’t seem interested. And he’s already said hes pushing any plan back to 2018, which seems pretty close to just saying he’s abandoning it.
In anycase, neither proposal seems important enough for him to actually get in this years legislative schedule.
Honestly, I’m pretty cynical about Trump and even I was pretty surprised at how fast he threw out the whole populist schtick once he’d won the election.
Trump used to support single payer Healthcare too.
However I think at core Trump has a romanticized view of what ails American workers.
He blames their problems on government regulation, trade and immigration. Those things play a role but technology changes, automation and income inequality are also huge factors, arguably bigger ones.
I do wonder why Trump seems to care about some idealized 1950s America where high school educated whites could get good paying jobs with benefits. What does he get out of that?
Also the dems would work with Trump on infrastructure if Trump had an infrastructure plan of using tax revenue to advance needed infrastructure projects. Instead Trump is pushing tax credits and private infrastructure we may not actually need. Dems aren’t going to support that.
From here. (January)
The problem is that projects that won’t generate profits might not/won’t get done.
Well, two things.
Votes. He realized that there’s a group of Americans who feel disenfranchised by what’s changed in America. They feel that no one listens to them and their needs, and that America’s been heading in the wrong direction for decades. Trump told them what they wanted to hear, and they voted for him.
It seems likely (to me, anyway) that Trump likes the idea of a return to a culture where white guys can get away with being white guys, and that women and minorities “know their place.”
Trump is first and foremost, a pathological liar.
No take-backs.
Tell us what he’s done, not just talked about and promised, but actually done for American workers.
I don’t think Trump cares about white guys any more than he cares about any one else.
In my opinion, Trump divides all of the universe into three levels:
Which is why he used Chinese steel in his own construction projects. Guess he must have believed that US steelworkers would prefer to be jobless–what a thoughtful guy!
How Donald Trump Ditched U.S. Steel Workers in Favor of China - Newsweek
He did issue an executive order to stop the TPP. I’ll give him credit for that.