Yes, sir. I definitely think any President of the United States walking a picket line would be logistically clumsy, if not actually dangerous to the picketing workers for a myriad of reasons -- particularly the usual swarming press coverage -- and might play out like a disingenuous stunt. Remember that former VP Biden did meet with the striking GM workers in 2019 necessitated because for all Trump's campaign bluster and empty promises, workers were losing their jobs.

At a July 2017 rally in Youngstown, Ohio, President Pathological Liar told his supporters not to sell their homes because the factory jobs are "coming back. They're all coming back," but by 2019, GM had closed the factory located a few miles away, two other GM factories in Michigan and Maryland had stopped production, and the UAW workers at 50+ factories across America went on strike to attempt to accomplish what Trump and all his grandiose rhetoric and bloviating hot air had epically failed to deliver.

The speech and meeting you suggest are definitely the right tactic, CW.

Because next Wednesday, Donald Trump will steal the spotlight that Biden should be owning right now.

As for Trump stealing the spotlight, he now has a record to run on. Although Trump frequently railed about the U.S. trade deficit, President Bloviating Blowhard managed to make it worse.

Question: In what year of the Trump presidency did he keep his promise to lower the trade deficit?

Answer: There isn't one. In no year of his presidency was the trade deficit lower than in any of the 8 years of the Obama/Biden administration.

Shine a spotlight on that.

Trump's rhetoric regarding this issue and his attacks on union leadership are typical of the union busting auto manufacturers and meant to drive a wedge between the workers and their union leadership and thereby weaken their movement. It's the same old "fear and smear," "divide and conquer," and any of those striking UAW workers dumb enough to believe that Rapist McTrump gives a hang about them has obviously not been paying attention.

Anyone at this point who actually believes that Trump the elitist class billionaire blowhard is concerned about the interests of Americans needs only to review his underwhelming performance as president and his prior prattling promises and outright lies followed by repetitive epic failure.

It is amazing to me that Trump is (still) covered by the media as if he has any kind of actual political policy versus the irrefutable fact that he's nothing but a con job pathological lying sack of "say anything" shit who isn't running in order to further the interests of anyone who is not named Defendant Donald Trump... running to stay out of prison for the plethora of crimes for which he's committed against the people for which he's been indicted... NOT being "indicted for you" unless he's talking into a mirror or his orange reflection.

Yes this would appear to be a no-brainer and I think Joe on the picket line is almost as important as showing up in the first place.

And, just guessing, if the White House wants a secure photo op of the president on the picket line, it can get one. That probably comes down to Biden's sense of how far he can push management by siding so super-visibly with the workers. A drive-by and a rousing speech with the right message is probably safer in terms of getting the strike settled, but boy I'd love to see a president grab a sign and join the line.

(Who was the previous president who did so, as you comment, a *very* long time ago?)

How much more involved Biden gets in this affair is totally up to him as far as I'm concerned. Because no one can tell him what he needs to do to support workers and unions - he's been doing it throughout his entire adult and political life. As with most things, Biden knows best.