Former Secretary of State John Kerry was hit by a huge backlash after the Democratic leader went after the blue-collar workers that will lose their jobs over the closure of the Keystone XL pipeline.

“They have been fed the notion that somehow dealing with the climate is coming at their expense,” Kerry said of the workers that suddenly find themselves unemployed after President Joe Biden’s executive order.

“No, it’s not.”

“What is happening to them is happening because of other market forces that are already taking place,” he said at a press conference Wednesday.

Kerry went on to tell unemployed oil workers that they should simply get a job building solar panels instead.

John Kerry is asked what his message would be to oil and gas workers who "see an end to their livelihoods":

"What President Biden wants to do is make sure that those folks have better choices… That they can be the people to go to work to make the solar panels." pic.twitter.com/i9TYXlD9Jg

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 27, 2021

Sen Ted Cruz, R-T.X., blasted Kerry’s “arrogant” statements in an appearance on Fox News Primetime.

“It is not a unifying message, and it is not doing the job we should be doing,” Cruz said. “[We should be] fighting for working men and women in this country.”

“What an arrogant, out-of-touch statement for a centimillionaire to say,” he continued. “You know, ‘You little people, you know, I don’t like the choices you’re making, and so your jobs go away,’ as John Kerry said right there.”

Kerry gained almost all of his wealth after marrying Teresa Heinz, who was widowed in 1991 from the late Ketchup-heir Sen. John Heinz.

“Surprise that the Democratic elites have decided that blue-collar workers [and] union members — the men and women with calluses on their hands — that they’ve made the wrong choices, in John Kerry’s words,” Cruz said.

 

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