In a blistering Truth Social post Saturday, President Donald Trump unloaded on New York’s disastrous Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul after the “failing Dumacrat” tried to pin the blame for the crippling Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) strike squarely on him, even though he had “nothing to do with it.”
The strike, which shut down the nation’s busiest commuter railroad on Saturday, has left hundreds of thousands of Long Island workers and families stranded, costing the region tens of millions of dollars a day in lost productivity and economic damage.
The New York Times reported:
Thousands of workers for the Long Island Rail Road walked off the job early Saturday morning, staging the first strike in more than 30 years for America’s busiest passenger railway and grinding service to a halt.
After three years of failed contract negotiations, two federal interventions and a volley of last-minute bargaining, unions representing about half of the work force decided to take to the picket line to protest what they called insufficient wage increases.
Five unions representing more than 3,500 workers — including engineers, signalmen and machinists — called the strike after contract discussions with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs the railroad, fell apart.
Kevin Sexton, a vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, one of the unions, said the two sides could not agree on raises in 2026, or on issues like health care contributions.
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More than 270,000 daily riders rely on the service to travel between New York City and Long Island, a sprawl of suburbs and bedroom communities where many of the region’s workers live.
But instead of taking responsibility for her own incompetence, Hochul immediately started pointing fingers at President Trump and his administration, claiming they “cut mediation short” and “accelerated” the strike.
President Trump wasn’t having it.
The 47th President set the record straight and exposed Hochul’s pathetic deflection attempt for what it is:
“Failed New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, a Dumacrat, just blamed ME for her Long Island Railroad STRIKE, when she knows, full well, that I have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT – never even heard about it until this morning. She just blurted out, “it’s President Trump’s fault.”
No, Kathy, it’s your fault, and now looking over the facts, you should not have allowed this to happen. If you can’t solve it, let me know, and I’ll show you how to properly get things done. This would be an easy one for BRUCE BLAKEMAN. He should be your next Governor and New York State would turn around fast, including far less Crime, and much lower taxes!!! Kathy, call me if you can’t do it, I will get it done – I know all the players, great people!!!”
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