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US President Donald Trump, who has been relentlessly bashing everything linked to what he sees as \u2018socialism,\u2019 is himself no stranger to using socialist principles to support the US arms industry, Tulsi Gabbard has claimed.<\/p>\n
One could hardly suspect Trump of being a socialist in disguise. After all, the US president has emerged as one of the most ardent critics of the leftist ideological platform. Just recently, he announced he would \u201cgo into the war with some socialists,\u201d<\/em> while apparently referring to his political opponents from the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n But the president also seems to be quite keen on borrowing some socialist ideas when it fits his agenda, at least, according to the congresswoman from Hawaii and Democratic presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard, who recently wrote in a tweet that \u201cTrump is for socialism when it comes to taxpayers underwriting military contractors and arms manufacturers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trump is for socialism when it comes to taxpayers underwriting military contractors and arms manufacturers. The same money would create more jobs used for rebuilding our country\u2019s infrastructure and green economy, and it would be better for humanity. https:\/\/t.co\/tcNqsNQVbN<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n She was referring to a piece<\/a> in The Los Angeles Times, which cheerfully reported that Trump\u2019s whopping military budget helps to breathe some new life into a Pentagon-owned tank manufacturing plant somewhere in northwestern Ohio that was once on the verge of a shutdown.<\/p>\n While the paper hailed the fact that the Pentagon\u2019s budget increase allowed local workers to keep their jobs and encouraged a skilled workforce to move to a small town in rural Ohio, Gabbard apparently hinted that the whole story in fact described what amounted to re-distribution of money from taxpayers to a de-facto depressed area to save some jobs \u2013 a social-democratic if not outright socialist move indeed.<\/p>\n It is very much unclear if Trump had this Ohio plant or any other factories like it in mind when he supported the record Pentagon budget. After all, redistributing large sums of public money in favor of the booming US military industrial complex does not look very much like socialism.<\/p>\n\n