Former President Donald Trump spoke to the press from the passenger seat of a garbage truck on Wednesday—a reference to President Joe Biden’s comments many have taken as calling Trump supporters “garbage.”
The truck was emblazoned with Trump campaign messaging and American flags.
“How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,” Trump said to reporters from the passenger seat.
The former president later took to the stage at a campaign rally wearing an orange safety vest.
“I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage,” Trump said in opening his speech.
Trump appears to be capitalizing on comments made by Biden during a campaign call in response to a joke about Puerto Rico made by roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe earlier in the week. Hinchcliffe was speaking at a Trump campaign rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’” Biden said, according to video footage of his remarks. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
The White House later released a transcript of the comments to show an apostrophe in the word supporters: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.”
The president later clarified that his comments were referring to the comedian and not Trump supporters in general.
The Trump campaign highlighted Biden’s remarks on social media and called on the Harris campaign to denounce the remarks.
Vice President Kamala Harris sought to distance herself from Biden’s remarks on Oct. 30.
“Listen, I think, first of all, he clarified his comments, but let me be clear: I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” Harris told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
“You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career. I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people whether they support me or not.”
At a rally on Oct. 30 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Trump linked Biden’s comments to Harris.
“And now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them garbage,” Trump said. “And they mean it. … My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans. … And you can’t be president if you hate the American people.”
Trump, on Fox News’ Hannity, distanced himself from Hinchcliffe and the comedian’s comments that were made before Trump arrived at the Madison Square Garden rally.
“I have no idea who he is, never saw, never heard of him, and don’t want to hear of him,” Trump said.
“It’s nobody’s fault but somebody said some bad things,” he added. “Now, what they’ve done is taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, has nothing to do with us, said something, and they try and make a big deal. But I don’t know who it is.”
The White House also sought to further clarify Biden’s remark, with a spokesman writing on social media that the president was saying that “hateful rhetoric” at the Trump rally was “garbage.”
Biden wrote on social media later that evening, “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it.”
Kamala Promised a Joy Joy Campaign, but the fake accent she was using at the time to manipulate the crowd was really Saying that she was bringing us more JOEY JOEY. First they BOTH piss off the 41 million legal German DNA carrying USA voter Americans (48 million identify as Black) by calling the Trump Supporters at Madison Square Garden NAZI’s, forgetting that Eisenhower our Supreme WWII commander who Defeated Hitler, and Einstein the precursor scientist of our nuclear weapons that defeated Japan, were GERMAN AMERICANS.,,Einstein a German JEWISH American. My GERMAN AMERICAN father, whose grandfather immigrated to Illinois in 1841 when Texas was an independent nation, signed up and fought the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Philippines in 1941 when Pearl Harbor got bombed, 2 weeks after he married mom.…. Now the Democrat nation dividers raise the anti by calling half the voting American population of about 346 million,,,GARBAGE. When it comes to slips of the tongue, there are no mistakes, just revelation of how they really think. Many a true word is spoken in jest, and many a true court jester decapitated for speaking their true political ideas,,, like the loose lips that now sink the Democrat party ship, as joe and Kamala now desperately self-crash their own campaigns like the Desperate Imperial Japs who flew their suicide aircraft into our American ships near the end of WWII. When Kamala-Crazies start acting like Kamal-Kazes, it’s way past time to just throw in the towel so Real American leadership can make us all great AGAIN
Before this election, the American voters yearns for the first woman candidate democrats offer. After election, the “y” will become silent.
Trash talking Sleepy Joe on the other hand is like the man who muttered a few words in the church, found himself married. 4 years later, he muttered something about trash in his sleep and found himself divorced!,,,,and out of a job.
What a great idea,,, to protect the President for the rest of the campaign,,,,just disguise a bullet proof vest as a trashman’s safety vest and let him wear it every day for the last week of the election!
Killer Clown Kamala now runs after Trump’s garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late for the garbage?” Following her down the street Trump yells back, “No, jump in!”
JUST like after what obama did, most americans now are unwilling to have a black president, i see what KAMLE TOE has done, pushing most SANE americans to not want a woman president.
The White House later released a transcript of the comments to show an apostrophe in the word supporters: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.”
The president later clarified that his comments were referring to the comedian and not Trump supporters in general.
Classic Liberal BS. Reminds me of Klinton’s, depends on what the meaning of is… is.
What’s worse than 3 babies in 1 garbage can?
1 baby in 3 garbage cans!,,,,Enter Kamala’s family planning.
Joe and Kamala are campainging like they are the trash talking Lone Rangers of the Democrat party whose new election theme song sounds like the William tell overture ,,,,”To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump.”
THEY Don’t lie, they just got misquoted.
He (Joe Biden) called them (Trump supporters) garbage,” Trump said. “And they mean it. … My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans. … And you can’t be president if you hate the American people.”
This is just like the “Hil-Liar-y Clinton saying; “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.”
To the Democrat Party it is not about leading our country into prosperity and safety.
It is all about misleading WE the PEOPLE and gaining and keeping control over WE the PEOPLE.