TMZ caught a 30-second video of convicted felon/sexual abuser/President Trump touring a Ford F-150 truck manufacturing plant in Dearborn, Michigan on Tuesday, January 13, at the moment an auto worker at the plant screamed “Pedophile Protector!” at him.
Unable to keep his cool, Trump responded by saying “Fuck you” twice and giving the worker the finger.
The worker, TJ Sabula, identified himself as the man who shouted at Trump and said he said he had “no regrets” about what he did. Sabula allegedly indicated his remarks referred to Trump’s mishandling of the Epstein files.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act that passed on November 18, 2025 with near majority support in both houses of the federal legislature, set a deadline of December 19, 2025, for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) release all of the files related to the
investigation and prosecution of Trump’s longtime friend, serial pedophile and registered sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has missed the deadline to make the files public multiple times. As of January 6, 2026, the DOJ had released less than 1% of the files.
The White House defended Trump’s vulgarity at the Ford plant as “appropriate and unambiguous,” even though days earlier White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned Minneapolis citizens who flipped off Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. She called their behavior “despicable rhetoric,” and added “People don’t do this without encouragement from people in power, who make them feel like it’s okay.”
So under the current White House, the vulgar F.U. gesture appears to be perfectly appropriate when Trump uses it, but not when others do.
What a classy guy. (My mother would have said he was “rude, crude, and unattractive.”)