Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said Friday that he wasn’t surprised if Donald Trump didn’t realize his Trump-brand Bibles were made in China because he would have had to open them to find out.
During a campaign swing through Michigan, the Minnesota governor unleashed the dig at Mr. Trump. And he rejected the former president’s claim that he was a warrior for the nation’s auto industry and manufacturing.
“We just found out his Trump-branded Bibles they were printed in China,” Mr. Walz said. “This dude even outsourced God to China.”
“I don’t blame him. He didn’t notice the Made in China sticker because they put it inside — a place he has never looked in the Bible,” he said.
Mr. Trump started selling a $60 “God Bless the USA Bible” this year, with copies of the nation’s founding documents.
“Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. “As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible.”
Mr. Walz’s visit to Macomb Community College came a day after Mr. Trump told the Detroit Economic Club that he saved the auto industry as president and vowed to make it more robust than ever if he returned to the White House by taking a hard stand against China.
Mr. Walz painted a far different picture. Labeling Mr. Trump a “scab,” he said the Republican was a “disaster for working people” and “one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs of any American president in history.”
He said Michigan lost 280,000 jobs over Mr. Trump’s four years in office, including 30,000 manufacturing jobs and nearly 9,000 auto industry jobs.
“Trump’s presidency was an endless string of broken promises,” he said. “He promised you under a Trump presidency, you won’t lose a single plant.
“Technically, it wasn’t a lie because he lost six of them — not one,” Mr. Walz said.
• Seth McLaughlin can be reached at smclaughlin@washingtontimes.com.
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