Biden fist pumps as UAW union boss compares Big Three auto execs to WWII Axis powers 

President Biden looked on approvingly and fist pumped as the head of the striking United Auto Workers union on Tuesday compared top automotive executives to the Axis powers in World War Two.

Biden, 80, stood on the picket line outside General Motors’ Willow Run parts center as UAW President Shawn Fain ranted against “corporate greed,” likening his union’s strike against the “Big Three” automakers – Ford, General Motors and Stellantis – to the collective US effort to manufacture military equipment for the Allies during World War Two. 

Fain, on his bullhorn, noted that the parts center outside Detroit was previously part of the country’s so-called “arsenal of democracy,” and the site where Ford assembly line workers put together B-24 Liberator bombers for the war effort. 

“So today, 80 years later, we find ourselves here again, with the arsenal of democracy,” Fain said. “It’s a different kind of arsenal of democracy, and it’s a different kind of war we’re fighting.”

“Today, the enemy isn’t some foreign country miles away. It’s right here in our own area,” he said.

“It’s corporate greed, and the weapon we produce to fight that enemy is the liberators, the true liberators. It’s the working class people, all of you working – working your butts off on those lines to deliver great products for our companies. That’s how we’re going to defeat these people,” added Fain.

Biden pumped his fist as Fain made the comparison. 

“Wall Street didn’t build the country — the middle class built the country,” Biden told the picketers after taking the bullhorn from Fain. “Unions built the middle class. That’s a fact “

“So, let’s keep going. You deserve what you’ve earned and you’ve earned a hell of a lot more than you’re getting paid now,” he added. 

The UAW is demanding 40% pay raises and a 32-hour work week for employees from the automakers. 

The White House has declined to say whether the president supports the striking workers’ demands.

Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner, will deliver a speech to union workers in Detroit Wednesday night  rather than attend the second GOP primary debate in Simi Valley, Calif.