It’s well known that Donald Trump is the kind of guy who doesn’t pay his debts. Or bills. Paying people what they’ve earned is just not something he likes to do. So it’s not really surprising that he stiffed his personal chauffeur on overtime.
Still, the lawsuit filed by the chauffeur to recover six years’ worth of overtime does contain some nice lines. For instance:
In an utterly callous display of unwarranted privilege and entitlement and without even a minimal sense of noblesse oblige President Donald Trump has, through the defendant entities, exploited and denied significant wages to his own longstanding personal driver.
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And:
President Trump’s further callousness and cupidity is further demonstrated by the fact that while he is purportedly a billionaire, he has not given his personal driver a meaningful raise in over 12 years!
Cute. Bad legal writing, but cute.
The chauffeur, Noel Cintron, says that he worked for Trump for 20 years, until the Secret Service replaced him. In that time, he says that Trump never paid him overtime, though he’s only suing for the past six years because of the statute of limitations on these claims. I believe him, because Trump has a pattern and practice of stiffing people.
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But here’s the thing. The chauffeur presents to me as a freaking sap, cloying onto the status and prestige of a fake billionaire to his self-detriment. He’s just another Trump supporter, so far in the tank for the Dear Leader that he will suffer any measure of humiliation and privation.
He claims he worked without overtime for 20 years, yet still worked for Trump. He claims he didn’t get a raise for 12 years, yet still worked for Trump. He claims that Trump took away his health insurance, yet he still worked for Trump. Happy Hogan is treated better by Tony Stark than this man was treated by Trump, and yet if I threw a tomato at Trump, this chauffeur would probably be right there, standing in front of his boss and ushering him to a vegetable-free backseat.
People like Trump exist because “the little people” prop them up. Trump stands on their necks and they thank him for the opportunity to be crushed under such nice shoes.
This chauffeur was not a slave. He could have gotten a different job. Uber is a thing. But he stayed and stayed and would probably still dutifully be at his post if the Secret Service didn’t push him out.
Sorry, I don’t have any respect for anybody who works for Trump in any capacity. They’re all a bunch of Heinz Linge’s.
Former Trump Chauffer Sues for Overtime [Courthouse News Service]
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law and the Legal Editor for More Perfect. He can be reached @ElieNYC on Twitter, or at [email protected]. He will resist.