A Trump-supporting trucker has advised New Yorkers to ‘stock up’ – as he warned that fierce plans to avoid driving semitrailers to the Big Apple are going ahead.
In a video shared by the driver known as Chicago Ray, he suggested people living in the Big Apple ought to start stockpiling items because Republican-leaning truckers will be refusing to take loads to and from New York City.
The cunning scheme was hatched in support of Donald Trump after the former president was fined $355 million in a civil fraud verdict in the city last week.
Ray warned that there are ‘millions’ of ‘Tuckers for Trump’ – so the Republican hopeful, 77, must be ‘left alone’ or else there will be potential shortages in NYC.
‘I’m in Wisconsin and I’m hearing guys refusing loads….. this could take longer than a week…. my advice for New Yorkers is start stocking up… there’s millions of Truckers for Trump millions of us .. leave Trump TF alone,’ he posted in a message to X.
In a video shared by a truck driver known as Chicago Ray, he urges New Yorkers to prepare for potential shortages and to start stocking up
According to Ray, the truckers are serious at no longer conducting business in the Big Apple
The truckers says they are protesting following the recent $355 million civil fraud fine imposed on the former president
According to Ray, those he had spoken to had already alerted their bosses that as of Monday, they would no longer be conduct business in the Big Apple.
‘I’ve been talking to a few guys on the radio. This is real man. There’s guys that ain’t going,’ Ray began.
‘I talked to a guy that denied a refrigerator load to New York City. That’s pretty good money so you gotta give that guy his credit for that.
‘If this goes longer than a week, New York better start stocking up and they better start stocking up now,’ Ray went on.
‘I ain’t wishing anybody anything. I’m just telling you what I hear. From what i’m hearing, these guys are serious and this could take longer than a week.
‘If they quit f***ing with Trump. We’re just against what’s going on in this country. We got careers out here. We ain’t trying to hurt nobody but we gotta stand for something. We stand with Trump. Cut the bull***t. It ain’t gotta be like this,’ Ray said.
Trump has hailed the group of truckers planning to boycott New York as ‘great patriots’.
After sharing DailyMail.com’s article about the planned boycott, Trump posted on Truth Social: ‘Such an honor to have so many Great Patriots on the side of freedom!’
Trucker Jake also shared similar sentiments. ‘Those of you who have to work, you do you. But those who are part of the boycott, God bless you. God bless President Trump. God bless MAGA America and God bless all you truckers out there,’ Trucker Jake said
He added: ‘Joe Biden’s Unfair and Dangerous Weaponization of Law Enforcement is a serious threat to Democracy. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’
Other truckers have also posted to social media supporting the Big Apple boycott.
‘Of course liberals have all become experts on the trucking industry. They all know logistics forwards and backwards. They say we’re all going to be replaced by AI. We have a deficit in this country of 85,000 truck drivers. You wanna do AI? Bring it. We could use the help,’ Trucker Jake posted in a video to X.
‘Then you’re gonna say the illegals will take your jobs. Really? They can’t pass a background check, can’t pass a drugs test and then there’s the language barrier. What insurance company is going to hire somebody who cannot pass a background check. So truckers you’re safe.
‘Those of you who have to work, you do you. But those who are part of the boycott, God bless you. God bless President Trump. God bless MAGA America and God bless all you truckers out there,’ Trucker Jake said.
Since sharing the videos, others have chimed in on the alleged boycott saying they supported the move.
One person posted: ‘Do it! Let us know how we can help! You’re NOT alone in this fight!’
Another added: ‘We can always rely on the trucker to restore some semblance of the right thing in response.
‘Thank you from the many here on X for your courage to stand up to the Marxist leftists.’
On Friday, the former President and Republican presidential candidate was fined $355m in a civil fraud verdict
Judge Arthur Engoron released the ruling on Friday that will also see 77-year-old Trump banned from being a director in a New York firm for three years.
Speaking outside his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump went on the offense and lashed out at Engoron and Attorney General Letitia James.
The former President said: ‘I paid approximately $300 million dollars in taxes as the migrants come in and take over New York, and they want me out.
‘These are radical left democrats, they are lunatics. Its election interference.’
The former president also said that the case had been brought by the DOJ and Biden and constituted election interference.
Last month, a large MAGA truck convoy named the ‘Army of God’ was heading towards the southern border due to the ongoing crisis.
They hoped the eye-catching, all-American protest will draw further attention to record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border and into the US, with multiple cities now buckling under the weight of trying to care for them.
Last month, a massive convoy of truckers were seen making its way to migrant hotspots in a bid to shame the White House into tackling the worsening crisis
New York City is currently one of those cities struggling under the weight of the tens of thousands of migrants arriving at its borders in need of accommodation.
In the last two years alone, the city had to deal with the arrival of over 170,000 migrants.
Mayor Eric Adams has said the cost of the migrant crisis in the Big Apple is an eye-watering $4.6 billion as he begs the state for more money.
State governor Kathy Hochul pledged to commit $2.4 billion to the crisis last month, which is more than double last year’s proposal.
In court on Friday, five migrants were formally charged with assaulting two NYPD officers in Times Square last month.