To the editor:

Mr. Trump's handling of the Goodyear incident lays bare his spurious claim that he supports America's blue collar workers. 

This whole sad affair began with an unauthorized posting on social media of a single training slide.  There is no evidence that this slide was supplied from official company policy.  Common sense dictates it is much more likely and logical that it is a display created by a local trainer using their own examples. 

If anyone knows anything about employee training such as this, they would know that corporate protocol will avoid spelling out specific groups.  The actual company policy follows that very principle. 

Mr. Trump, with no more specific information than this anonymous post to social media, used the platform of the President of the United States to exhort us to boycott a well-respected U.S. company. It should be noted that their main competition comes from Asian based suppliers. 

Mr. Trump's tweets and his August 19 news conference are not fake news. They can be easily verified online.  Perhaps he will try to blame it on a ventriloquist.

Bob Rottmann

Little Compton