Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Trump Loves the Middle Class. Up to a Point.

They're his voters. They're his customers. They're not his tax plan's beneficiaries.

October 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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President Donald Trump has his tax plan in hand, and he says it will do lots of great things for the middle class.

"Our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well-connected," he said in Indiana last week when he rolled out the plan. "And it’s not good for me, believe me."