The former president isn’t holding back. He’s done having Joe Biden and the Left attack him and his followers.
And Donald Trump smacks Biden with an epic response for making this offensive comment about Trump supporters.
Former President Donald Trump rolled into his Green Bay, Wisconsin, rally in true reality-TV style Wednesday night, making a splashy entrance in a garbage truck decked out with campaign signs and flags.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden." pic.twitter.com/7UwMZ8syvx
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
Awaiting reporters were treated to a carefully crafted spectacle as Trump, in a bright orange garbageman vest, addressed his supporters shortly after taking the stage.
“I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage,” he declared, sparking cheers. “This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass m*rderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, crooked Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them ‘garbage.’”
Theatrics aside, Trump’s garbageman costume seemed to help shift attention away from his recent rally at Madison Square Garden, which had stirred controversy when opening speakers made demeaning remarks toward immigrants, Latinos, and Puerto Ricans, including a comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.”
Despite lingering concerns about his Puerto Rican support, Trump seized the opportunity to hit back at Biden’s alleged comment calling his supporters “garbage.”
“They actually mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are far higher quality than Crooked Joe or Lyin’ Kamala,” Trump said. “My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.”
As the remark circulated, the White House sought to explain that Biden’s comment—made during a Voto Latino get-out-the-vote call a week before Election Day—was specifically aimed at the Madison Square Garden comedian’s joke and not Trump’s supporters as a whole.
Yet the explanation failed to quell outrage from Trump, his campaign, and Republican lawmakers.
Speaking to his Green Bay audience, Trump told supporters that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have “bullied you,” “demonized us,” and “censored us.” Drawing on his garbageman garb, Trump even referenced a term famously used against him in 2016.
“That blows ‘deplorable’ away, don’t you think?” Trump asked.
Trump explained that his team had suggested the idea of dressing as a garbageman to field questions from the press while seated in the truck, highlighting that “garbage” had started trending online. He added with a chuckle that the orange vest made him look “thinner,” which convinced him to wear it throughout the rally.
“We had a little fun about a time when our country is not having a lot of fun,” he said.
When reporters asked him to address the offensive joke about Puerto Rico, Trump distanced himself from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who delivered it, but stopped short of apologizing.
“I love Puerto Rico. And Puerto Rico loves me. I don’t know anything about a comedian,” he said. “Nobody has done more for Puerto Rico than me. Nobody gets along better with Puerto Rico. They love me and I love them.”
Trump also took aim at Harris’s closing speech delivered the previous night from the Ellipse, where she appealed to independent and Republican voters, warning that Trump was too dangerous for a second term.
“She talked last night, and all she talked about was Donald Trump,” Trump said before playing a video mashup of Harris referencing him nearly two dozen times. “That’s all she talked about because she and Joe have absolutely no achievements.”
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