Overview
- Cellphone video from the Dearborn F-150 plant shows President Trump mouthing an expletive and raising his middle finger toward a worker during a tour.
- The worker yelled "pedophile protector," a jab widely linked to renewed scrutiny of Trump’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein–related records.
- White House communications director Steven Cheung defended the reaction as an appropriate and unambiguous response.
- A UAW representative said the worker has been suspended pending an investigation, and The Washington Post identified him as TJ Sabula, 40.
- Ford said it values respect in its facilities and treats such episodes through its personnel process, declining to discuss specifics.