Comedian Andrew Schulz explained to actress Monica Padman on a Monday podcast why President Donald Trump is able to connect with working-class Americans, despite his billionaire status.
“The face of the party should not be like a fourth-generation trust fund nepo baby who’s never had a real job, like telling working-class Americans … This can’t be the Democratic Party,” Schulz said on “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.”
“That is the face of the Republican Party, and it worked,” Padman retorted. “I don’t get it.”
Schulz said Padman made “a great point,” but noted there is a distinction with Trump.
“But here’s the difference. And this is what people do not like to acknowledge: Trump doesn’t sound rich,” he said. “When he talks, he sounds poor. He talks like he’s from the neighborhood.”
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Schulz then recounted how Trump responded to a reporter who asked him about the possibility of Russia breaking a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine during his press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 28.
“He goes, ‘What if someone drops a bomb and it blows up on your head?’ That’s how Frank from the neighborhood would answer a question,” Schulz said. “So he communicates in a way that is super relatable to those people, despite his life not being at all relatable.”
Schulz previously interviewed Trump on his “Flagrant” podcast in October and told host Joe Rogan in a March 6 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” that the president was “an acute listener.”
Trump gained support from working-class voters during the 2024 election. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Sept. 18 declined to endorse a presidential candidate just hours after publishing internal polling data indicating that nearly 60% of the workers it represents backed Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump won all seven swing-states and made significant inroads with Hispanic and black men, along with youth, all groups that tend to back Democrats.
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