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‘This Ain’t The Apprentice’: Ford Worker Who Heckled Trump Keeps Job UAW Says

Feb 9, 2026·2 min read

WASHINGTON — A Ford Motor Co. employee who heckled President Donald Trump during a January visit to the automaker’s Dearborn Truck Plant remains employed and has “no discipline on his record,” a United Auto Workers official said Monday.



TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old line worker and member of UAW Local 600, shouted “pedophile protector” at Trump as the president toured the plant on Jan. 13 alongside Ford Chairman Bill Ford Jr. and CEO Jim Farley.

Video of the exchange shows Trump responding by with an obscene gesture and mouthed, “You’re fired.”

“Well, this ain’t ‘The Apprentice,’” UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson said during remarks at the union’s national political conference in Washington. “TJ, we got your back.”

Sabula was initially suspended pending an investigation. He later told The Washington Post he had “no regrets whatsoever,” though he expressed concern he could face political retaliation.

More than $810,000 was raised through two online fundraising campaigns in support of Sabula in the days following the incident.

UAW President Shawn Fain also praised Sabula at the conference. “That’s a union brother who spoke up,” Fain said. “He put his constitutional rights to work. He put his union rights to work.”

Ford and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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