*President Joe Biden referred to Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments at Trump’s rally Sunday night, during which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
“Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community,” Biden said during a campaign call at the White House Tuesday, New York Post reports. “Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Conservative voters on social media were quick to compare it to Hillary Clinton’s remark in 2016 that some Trump supporters should be “put into the basket of deplorables.”
Trump reacted to Biden’s “garbage” remark during his Tuesday night rally in Allentown, Pa. “Wow. That’s terrible,” he said before recalling Hillary’s “deplorable” comment.
I’ve seen some people disputing the Biden quote, but there is video of it: https://t.co/fQ9eCpAS5K pic.twitter.com/pRv5GHUxgk
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 30, 2024
“So, you have to remember Hillary [Clinton] — she said ‘deplorable’ and then she said ‘irredeemable’ … ‘garbage’ I think is worse,” Trump added.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates claims Biden was referring to “the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”
A transcript of the president’s remarks released by the White House noted that an apostrophe was intended in the word “supporters.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” the transcript read. Conservatives called the clean-up attempt “propaganda.”
The official White House transcript needs to be immediately corrected. Notice the use of the apostrophe in the transcript
Joe Biden’s words were clear that he was stating Trump’s supporters were the garbage
Not Biden discussing Trump’s supporter’s garbage floating around pic.twitter.com/xDyyHZsZ53
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) October 30, 2024
“The official White House transcript needs to be immediately corrected. Notice the use of the apostrophe in the transcript,” Kyle Jane Kremer, executive director of Women for America First, wrote on X. “Joe Biden’s words were clear that he was stating Trump’s supporters were the garbage.”
Biden also attempted to clarify his remarks in a statement released on X.
“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. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say,” he wrote on X.
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