So he warmly welcomes the elimination of trade barriers, predicts it will create a large peasant class, then aggressively undermines a proposal to up-skill stud

So he warmly welcomes the elimination of trade barriers, predicts it will create a large peasant class, then aggressively undermines a proposal to up-skill students by saying it is too expensive. No one is ever going to come out and say "I hate poor people, do not design systems to empower them." They say things like "do X which will hurt poor people but also do Y to help them." X always happens before Y, and when the time to implement Y comes it is always too expensive. Look at the 2008 financial crisis: banks bailed out early on, 40 million people experienced foreclosure. Look at the CARES act. Now that the market has rebounded, there will be no support for people facing eviction. I say this as a relatively wealthy person in a high-skill profession.