I’ll concede to “our tax dollars going to defense contractors,” but as to big oil or pharmaceuticals, I have no knowledge of them or rarely any companies, trucking especially, getting checks from the government. What most people term “corporate welfare” are tax breaks for doing business in a certain way. Corporate officers all go to the same schools that teach the same pricing formulas so that if you raise their taxes, they just raise the price to the customer. Corporations don’t pay taxes. If an oil company gets to pay less corporate tax it benefits the poorest of its customers by reducing the price for their products. The rich could afford to pay a lot more. Nobody complains about the obscene profits in “big cosmetics.”
I believe the reason a lot of people believe Trump had their interests in mind started out by the way he was able to articulate them in a way that convinced them. Just like how he can step into a crowd of construction, or industrial workers, or military, and seem to be one of them. He relates. Then in office he did and tried to do everything he said he would, and more. While he was in, for the first time any of us can remember, blue collar wages were rising at a faster pace than white collar wages. The Emergency Petroleum Reserve was full, no wars were started, and peace was breaking out everywhere. Everywhere except the New York Times and a few other newsrooms and dimocrat infestations.