WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden is facing criticism for calling supporters of former President Trump “garbage” during a virtual speech on Oct. 29.
Biden’s comments were made during a Zoom call with Voto Latino, a nonprofit aimed at registering Latinos to vote, in which Biden referenced stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City earlier this week.
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage,” Biden said.
The president then added: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
The White House and Biden have since sought to backtrack on the comments.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates posted the transcript of the remarks stating that the president “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”
Biden, in a post on X, said that his comment was in reference to what he called Trump’s “demonization of Latinos.”
“That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
Biden’s original remarks drew a quick rebuke from the Trump side. Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt in a statement said that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him.”
Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), on X called Biden’s comment “disgusting,” saying that “Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country.”
Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was asked on CNN about the comments, said: “I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans even if they chose to support a candidate that I didn’t support.”
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who in recent months has emerged as a major surrogate and donor to the Trump campaign, wrote on his platform X that “Biden just called half of America ‘garbage’”
The comments also drew the ire from the crowd at a Trump rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the crowd about Biden’s comments.
“Moments ago, Joe Biden stated that our supporters are garbage,” Rubio announced during the rally.
“I hope their campaign is about to apologize for what Joe Biden just said. We are not garbage. We are patriots who love America.”
Trump drew a parallel between Biden’s comment and those made by then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who in September 2016 said, “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”
The comments at the time sparked fierce backlash. In a 2017 memoir Clinton recounted the comment as being one of the factors that led to her election loss.
Controversial Joke
Hinchcliffe, who appeared as a guest speaker at the Trump rally, called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage.” The comedian’s remarks, which included jokes about Latinos, soon made headlines.
Democrats and some Republicans including Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Rubio condemned the comedian’s comments.
The Trump campaign also issued a statement on Oct. 28, distancing itself from the comedian.
“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told The Epoch Times.
Sticks and stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me. This man is simply being told what to say, triggerrrrring 1/2 the country. Guess what I’m not understanding… since when is America 50/50?
Close race?
All the polls online (not main media) are 80% Trump to win.
Vote like your freedom depends on it, because it does!
Same here. I JUST cannot wrap around my head, HOW KAMALA IS SO “tied” to trump in every damn poll for the past 2+ months.. WORSE some had her ahead!..
“Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed” is a quote from Shakespeare’s play Othello, Act III1
“He who steals my vote is trash, thinks he is something, but is a nothing, thinks it is his, who is a slave to his party and a slave to his passions. But he who flinches from me my country’s good honest vote and election to enrich himself and his party, acts like a flinching sphincter muscle about ready to uncork a rancid pile of human waste and trash so large not even Kamala and Tim can staunch it with their Tampons that no amount of deficit spending will be able to cover or clean up, but makes us all poor indeed, and makes government tax slaves out of Hundreds of thousands.
Democrat President, Joe Biden, Realizes A democrat Elite Coup Caused him To not run For President Again. And so democrat President, Joe Biden Decided To Get Even By Making His Remarks About Former Republican President, Donald Trump Backers As Garbage, Democrat Former President, Barack H. Obama, Nancy Pelosi,, Chuck Schumber,,George Soros Etc.
” It’ s Not Wise To Be Wise among Fools or To Be Sane Among luntics.
Author Unknown.
Republicans including Florida Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Rubio condemned the comedian’s comments.
The Trump campaign also issued a statement on Oct. 28, distancing itself from the comedian.
“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told The Epoch Times.
I’m glad to see Republicans and Pres Trump distancing themselves from this idiot !!
We’re in a tight race, this was an incredibly stupid comment to make a week before the election.
I hope those responsible for this were dealt with…
As far as Brandon calling ANYONE garbage, look in the mirror and at your family Joe and then get back to me.
It WAS a stupid comment, but young girls aren’t being raped and murdered by it.
Joe just illuminated to THE PEOPLE his own failed ability to take out the very trash that took he himself out of the running. What a loser. Too bad for America that those who are best at trash talking are so unable to clean up their own trash, to the point where election Tuesday becomes designated as national “Take out the Democrat Trash”Day, because they turned the entire country into a island of Trash, and when the Tsunami of Hurricane Kamala hit us, the entire country will go under water, deeper than tha national debt they already blessed us with.
Yes, it was a stupid comment made by a stupid man. I would imagine that his “handlers” had nothing to do with these comments. Rather they were just off the cuff from Biden’s brain (which is why his handlers keep him away from microphones whenever possible).
Joe calling half the nation’s voters garbage is not only the pot calling the kettle black, but qualifies him for a Presidential funeral consisting of tossing his body into a trash bag, and setting him out on the curb that Kamala kicked him onto to be buried in the same city dumps he and his socialist control freak ideas should have been buried in long, long ago, and the ashes lie of an ideology that like Joe will end up ashes not in the dustbons of history, but the garbage dumps and unholy grounds they turned our American cities into.
With how mental he is, SOMEONE must have wrote it for joe..
2- Tiered Justice System, For Thee, But Not For Me. Former democrat President, Barack H. Obama, showed A Lack Of Good Judgement When He Choose Joe Biden To Be His Vice President…” Never Underestimate Joe Biden’s Ability To **** Things Up.” Barack H. Obama Once Said.!
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden is facing criticism for calling supporters of former President Trump “garbage” during a virtual speech on Oct. 29.
This is the disgraceful ways of Democrats i.e. “Hillary said “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 believe the Democrat Party or their puppet servants would be to be on the intellectual level of a mentally challenged squirrel, and that is being unkind to the squirrel.”
Democrats will do or say anything to gain power and retain it by any means available –
No matter the costs to the people, the government, or the nation.
This treasonous, destructive, immoral, unethical, lying, woke, socialist Democrat Party, their Democrat RINOs and their corrupt, demented, obedient sock-puppet president Joe Beijing OBiden/Harris administration has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
The treasonous Democrat Party’s idiot puppet, the self-serving, lying Chameleon Harris is just another obedient puppet of this treasonous Democrat Party. 🙁 🙁 🙁
anybody here the chatter from that maryland congressman who says if trump is elected there will be violence
at the capitol and the will not certify the election?
says they owe us one since jan 6th was blamed on trumps supporters.
I WILL GO TO MY GRAVE IN FULL BELIEF THAT THE 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN BY THE DEMOCRATS AND THERE MINONS IN THE PRESS.
” 150 Years Ago, They Replaced Windmills With Fossil Fueled Power Plants, Now democrat President, Joe Biden, Wants to Replace Fossil Fueled Power Plants With Windmills.”
Author Unknown.
When joe ran for president He said he would unite the country But instead he has been a divider in chief. Harris will continue to be a divider in chief