In 2016, Donald Trump slithered into the White House by pitching himself as the guy who would save the working class. That pitch, obviously, turned to be a classic Trump scam, given that the former real-estate developer’s “accomplishments” in the past two years have included passing a giant tax cut that disproportionately benefits corporations and the uber-rich; sabotaging the Affordable Care Act; weakening labor rules; and, most recently, forcing 800,000 federal workers to go without pay for more than a month while trotting out his own personal Mr. Burns to tell said workers to “take out a loan” and quit their bitching. Naturally, this large body of evidence that Trump does not, in fact, give a rat’s ass about lower- and middle-class Americans did not stop him from insisting during the State of the Union Tuesday night that he has spent the past 24 months devoted to making life better for the little guy. Strangely, however, his speech included no mention of this:
