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Obama: Trump “Exploiting” Anxieties of “Blue-Collar Men”

HeadlineDec 22, 2015

Meanwhile, President Obama has accused Donald Trump of “exploiting” the anxieties of “blue-collar men.” In an interview with NPR, Obama said the combination of demographic changes, flatlining wages and other economic hurdles “means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. Some of it justified, but just misdirected. I think somebody like Mr. Trump is taking advantage of that.”

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