{"id":798,"date":"2026-01-14T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:09:28","slug":"trump-seen-flipping-off-ford-employee-during-factory-tour-telling-worker-f-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Trump seen flipping off Ford employee during factory tour, telling worker \u2018F*** you\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"w-100\">\n<section class=\"body | w-100\">\n<div class=\"article-body | article w-100\">\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">DETROIT (Gray News) \u2014 President Donald Trump was caught on camera flipping off a worker at a Ford plant in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Tuesday, Trump was touring the Ford F-150 plant at the Detroit Economic Club before giving a speech about the economy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-item | figure media-item-image article-image w-100\">\n<div class=\"figure-wrapper img-wrapper figure-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/gray-kctv-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/COGJ34MK6ZCOXLX6QJI62Y52WA.jpg?auth=72ea81756f4b613e5d4d0f05c5512aea082fb89a5c377e6ff9630c00dee0c446&amp;width=980&amp;height=653&amp;smart=true\" alt=\"President Donald Trump listens to Corey Williams, Ford River Rouge Plant Manager, left, and...\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/13\/trump-flips-off-ford-worker\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/13\/trump-flips-off-ford-worker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video obtained by TMZ<\/a> showed a Ford worker shouting \u201cpedophile protector\u201d at Trump, who responded by flipping his middle finger at the worker and saying, \u201cf*** you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-100\" style=\"height: 90px;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">White House communications director Steven Cheung confirmed the interaction in a statement to <a title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-heckler-middle-finger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA._Hbh.-ovma-vBhRFs&amp;smid=url-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-heckler-middle-finger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA._Hbh.-ovma-vBhRFs&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cheung told The New York Times that a \u201clunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2026 Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"recommendations | w-100\">\n<div class=\"taboola-feed | w-100 mb-3\">\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article-thumbnails-new\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (Gray News) \u2014 President Donald Trump was caught on camera flipping off a worker at a Ford plant in Detroit. On Tuesday, Trump was touring the Ford F-150 plant &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}