Trump tells upstate NYers to uproot

President Trump is urging upstate New Yorkers to flee if they don’t have jobs — to states like Wisconsin, which announced Foxconn is building a $10 billion plant that will create 3,000 openings.

“You’re going to need people to work in these massive plants,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal.

“I’m going to start explaining to people — when you have an area that just isn’t working, like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you’ll have another area 500 miles away where you can’t get people — I’m going to explain, you can leave. It’s OK. Don’t worry about your house,” Trump said.

State Democratic leaders slammed the remarks.

“President Trump’s comments re- garding upstate New York are beyond reprehensible. Instead of working to unite this country, he has chosen a dangerous path that will only divide us,” said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx).

Gov. Cuomo’s spokesman, Richard Azzopardi, said Trump was off-base.

“The facts are unemployment has been cut nearly in half and privatesector jobs are at an all-time high in New York,” Azzopardi said. “We may not be a swing state, but New York — upper and otherwise — has every industry, every culture, and everything else to offer.”

But upstate areas have higher unemployment rates than the nation as a whole. Last month, the unemployment rate nationwide was 4.4 percent. In Buffalo, for example, it was 5.1 percent.