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Comedian Andrew Schulz explained to actress Monica Padman on a Monday podcast why President Donald Trump is able to connect with working-class Americans, despite his billionaire status.

ā€œThe face of the party should not be like a fourth-generation trust fund nepo baby who’s never had a real job, like telling working-class Americans … This can’t be the Democratic Party,ā€ Schulz said on ā€œArmchair Expert with Dax Shepard.ā€

ā€œThat is the face of the Republican Party, and it worked,ā€ Padman retorted. ā€œI don’t get it.ā€

Schulz said Padman made ā€œa great point,ā€ but noted there is a distinction with Trump.

ā€œBut here’s the difference. And this is what people do not like to acknowledge: Trump doesn’t sound rich,ā€ he said. ā€œWhen he talks, he sounds poor. He talks like he’s from the neighborhood.ā€

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Schulz then recounted how Trump responded to a reporter who asked him about the possibility of Russia breaking a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine during his press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 28.

ā€œHe goes, ā€˜What if someone drops a bomb and it blows up on your head?’ That’s how Frank from the neighborhood would answer a question,ā€ Schulz said. ā€œSo he communicates in a way that is super relatable to those people, despite his life not being at all relatable.ā€

Schulz previously interviewed Trump on hisĀ ā€œFlagrantā€Ā podcast in October and toldĀ host Joe Rogan in a March 6 episode of ā€œThe Joe Rogan Experienceā€ that the president was ā€œan acute listener.ā€

Trump gained support from working-class voters during the 2024 election. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Sept. 18Ā declined to endorse a presidential candidate just hours after publishing internal polling data indicating that nearly 60% of the workers it represents backed Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump won all seven swing-states and made significant inroads with HispanicĀ andĀ black men, along with youth, all groups that tend to back Democrats.

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