President Joe Biden sent the White House into damage control when he sparked the fury of former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
In a speech to a Latino group. the 81-year-old lame-duck president referred to Trump supporters as “garbage,” setting off a scramble to clean up the mess by a White House spokesperson and even himself later when he attempted to clarify his remarks. Biden’s remarks Tuesday came as Vice President Kamala Harris was set to deliver her campaign’s closing speech in Washington, D.C.
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They call you Nazis.
They call you fascists.
And – they call you garbage.— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) October 30, 2024
“Just the other day, a speaker at his (Trump’s) rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,'” Biden told a Latino advocacy group, referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made a joke at Trump’s New York City rally about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage.”
Joe Biden once again manages to completely destroy what was supposed to be Kamala’s big night by calling half the country garbage 7 days before the election. He hates her guts.pic.twitter.com/3cLA9GiVJ1
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 30, 2024
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been,” Biden said.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates issued a statement and published a transcript showing an apostrophe in “supporter’s,” to contend Biden was referring to a just one supporter’s garbage – the comic Hinchcliffe.
.@POTUS referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”
Transcript: pic.twitter.com/oBqWHn8xYL
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) October 30, 2024
The president also issued a statement trying to clean up the mess.
“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,” he said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
Oh no – you called us all garbage and you meant it. https://t.co/0eRqG2ApnZ
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 30, 2024
Trump reacted to the comment at his rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as Sen. Marco Rubio spoke, calling it worse than Hillary Clinton’s infamous “deplorable” insult during the 2016 campaign.
“Please forgive him for not knowing what he said,” Trump said. “These people are terrible, terrible, terrible to say a thing like that. But he really doesn’t know. He really honestly, he doesn’t. And I’m convinced that he likes me more than he likes Kamala. But that’s a terrible thing.”
Biden just gift-wrapped the election and laid it at Trump’s feet.
Any momentum or optics Kamala was hoping to gain on her big night, was just squandered by Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage”.
Biden just supplied Trump with unlimited ammunition for the final stretch. Not… pic.twitter.com/D9hO5eKh5i
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) October 30, 2024
Trump’s campaign reminded his supporters what Democrats think of them.
This is who Kamala and Joe Biden call “garbage.”
President Trump calls them Patriots. pic.twitter.com/TeajG55Fia
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
“Biden just called half of America ‘garbage,'” Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacted.
James Golden, aka Bo Snerdley, called out the Democrats as well.
Democrats react with fury if an illegal immigrant is called “illegal.”
Even when an illegal immigrant commits murder, rape or other heinous acts.
Yet. You Americans who want a vibrant American future now have Kamala, Hillary calling you Nazis and Joe Biden calling you…— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) October 30, 2024
Many were convinced Biden was deliberately sabotaging Harris’s campaign.
I’m now entirely convinced that Joe Biden is actively trying to sabotage Kamala Harris’ campaign.
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) October 30, 2024
It seems plausible that Joe Biden was trying to undercut Kamala as revenge (maybe even subconsciously). But it appears that his handlers have regained control of the situation. https://t.co/3IP9s0vnfU
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 30, 2024