What did Donald Trump do today?

He told an American auto worker "fuck you" for mentioning his adminstration's ongoing coverup of the Epstein files.

Trump gave a meandering, grievance-fueled speech to the Detroit Economic Club today, but not before he visited a Ford factory where a worker in the crowd below him called him a "pedophile protector," which drew immediate cheers from a few others.

Trump's reaction was caught on video. He stopped, tried to draw focus on who had called him out, then pointed and said "fuck you" twice before giving the middle finger.

A spokesperson for the Trump administration (which has had to make excuses for far worse tantrums) called his reaction "appropriate."

As for the claim that Trump protects pedophiles, the numbers are on the worker's side. For the first ten months of his second term, Trump stonewalled bipartisan calls for him to make good on his campaign promise to release DOJ investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. His administration "found" more than a million additional documents after a law was passed requiring him to release them. Trump is now almost month past the deadline set by that law and has released less than one percent of what the DOJ knows about Epstein's sex trafficking ring—and its connections to Trump and his other friends.

In fact, most of what the American people have learned about Epstein recently comes from ultra-conservative ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had been a staunch defender of Trump's for her entire political career. She told the New York Times that when she pressed Trump on why he wouldn't yield to bipartisan demands for transparency on Epstein, his response was, "My friends would get hurt."

Why does this matter?

• Someone who didn't want to be called a pedophile protector could simply not protect pedophiles.