Former President Donald Trump was greeted by a “big, beautiful ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ garbage truck” at an airport in Wisconsin on Wednesday.
“What about my garbage truck?” Mr. Trump, wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters as he sat in the passenger seat of a MAGA-decorated garbage truck as it drove across the tarmac.
“This track is a tribute to Kamala and Joe Biden.”
The stunt came a day after President Biden, 81, called Trump supporters “trash” in a campaign speech at the White House and criticized cartoonist Tony Hinchcliffe for calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.” I was disappointed. Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally for Republican candidates.
“The only trash floating around is his supporters.” Biden said Vice President Kamala Harris told a rally at the Ellipse near Washington, D.C., that “demonizing Latinos is unethical.” It’s unconscionable and un-American. It’s unconscionable and un-American,” he said, emphasizing how the Democratic Party will unite the country.
Republicans slammed the insult, quickly comparing it to then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s 2016 comment that half of Trump’s supporters should be placed in a “cage of deplorables.”
Biden and the White House tried to soften the comments by editing public records to put an apostrophe in “supporter,” suggesting the president was referring only to Hinchcliffe.
The commander-in-chief also sought to counter the jab at X, writing: That’s all I wanted to say. ”
The Harris-Waltz campaign also quickly ran an ad linking Hinchliffe’s comments to the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria, in which Harris narrated: He abandoned the island and offered nothing but paper towels and insults. ”
Since then, Trump has distanced himself from Hinchcliffe, who faced widespread bipartisan backlash after taking office.
Asked whether he owed Puerto Rico an apology, President Trump, sitting in a garbage truck, claimed he knew “nothing about comedians” and expressed his “love” for the Caribbean island, an unincorporated territory of the United States. I professed it. .
“No one has done more for Puerto Rico than me. When there was a big hurricane, I took care of them. No one gets along better with Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans than I do. I love them and I love them,” he said.
“I don’t know anything about that comedian. I don’t know who he is. I heard he made a statement, but it’s a statement he said. He’s a comedian. What can I say? Okay? You had a comedian come on, and I think he came on early in the show.”
Mr Hinchcliffe has since defended his controversial comments, insisting he was joking.
Garbage trucks are following a motorcade headed for Trump’s rally in Green Bay, where the former president is scheduled to speak later tonight.
