Here’s my diary about Trump’s position on the Minimum Wage from August 2015
Trump: I want to keep minimum wage pretty much where it is right now because - airplanes, internet
Trump: "...this country is competing more than ever before because of airplanes and transportation and the internet."
Todd: "So you think we got to keep then Minimum Wage lower?"
Trump: "Well I want to compete with the rest of the world. I want to compete with the rest of the world. What I do want to do is bring in jobs so much so that people don't have to live in on the minimum wage. But we are going to have to compete with the rest of the world."
Typical Republican Race to the Bottom doubletalk.
Over the past year Trump’s position evolved to letting the states rase it.
"In some states where it's more expensive, maybe they do have to lift the minimum wage," he said.\
Bernie has hit Trump hard and often over his stance on raising the Minimum Wage.
Here’s Bernie from ABC’s This Week interview on Sunday:
'This Week' Transcript: Live from Philadelphia Democratic National Convention
We do not need a billionaire president who wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 1 percent, but does not want to raise the minimum wage. We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.
We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.
Apparently Bernie’s schathing attacks got a lot of traction, because today Trump felt compelled to give a superficial revamp of his position yet again.
Trump backs $10 federal minimum wage
By Mark Hensch
Well, I would leave it and raise it somewhat,” the GOP presidential nominee told Bill O’Reilly on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor" on Tuesday.
"You need to help people, and I know it’s not very Republican to say, but you need to help people,
“I would say $10, but with the understanding that somebody like me is going to bring back jobs, I don’t want people to be in that $10 category for very long. But the thing is, Bill, let the states make the deal. They’re not doing that for the most part.”
Trump also accused former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders of distorting his position on the issue.
Letting “the states make the deal” isn’t likely to happen in Republican controlled states. So Trump is essentially coming out in favor of the status quo while trying to appear less stingy. Something that took no political capital or courage. A solution that is guaranteed to please America’s greediest families, like the Walton heirs.