'Greed, greed, and more greed': AOC and Bernie Sanders blast Trump and Musk at largest anti-oligarchy rally yet
Source: The Independent
Sunday 13 April 2025 02:39 BST
A staggering 36,000 people protested Donald Trump’s administration in Los Angeles Saturday, at the largest rally to date of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour
In fiery remarks, the New Yorker laid into the president, accusing him of “manipulating the markets” for his billionaire friends with his “tariff shuffle” this week, in which Trump pulled a dramatic U-turn on the implementation of his trade war against U.S. commercial partners and allies.
Taking to the stage at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles, Sanders noted that the crowd went back half a mile, before saying that Musk had said most of the people attending these rallies were paid organizers. He asked the crowd: “Anybody here get paid to come today?”
The question was met with a resounding: “No!” Sanders said that Trump was often “very envious of sizes” and claimed that only two or three thousand people show up to his rallies and that, speaking in the third person, Bernie “can’t compete with Trump.” “He lied,” said the senator. “I invite him to come to LA, tell the people here why you think it’s a great idea to cut Medicaid and nutrition and healthcare so you can give tax breaks to billionaires.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-aoc-sanders-oligarchy-b2732318.html
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