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Donald Trump used props Wednesday in the final days of a chaotic campaign after the former president was caught making gibberish remarks from President Joe Biden that seemed to insult Trump voters as “trash.” I exposed it.
Ahead of the rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, President Trump emerged from a plane wearing a bright orange and yellow safety vest, climbed into a garbage truck with a large “TRUMP” sign on the side, and was greeted by reporters. Responded to questions.
Biden privately denied calling Trump supporters “trash” and said his remarks in a video call Tuesday night were misinterpreted. The White House was on cleaning duty as the president soothed the crowd at Madison Square Garden in support of President Trump while talking about a little-known comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.” He claimed that he was just doing it.
Regardless of Mr. Biden’s intentions, the remarks were seized upon by Republicans looking to move on from the backlash over the New York City rally, and Mr. Trump took the lead in the campaign.
From the passenger seat of a garbage truck, Trump suggested that Biden’s remarks should have come from Kamala Harris herself, saying that during the 2016 campaign Hillary Clinton called half of Trump’s supporters “deplorable.” “It’s really bad,” he said.
In between attacks on Biden and Harris over the comment, Trump said he didn’t think it was “necessary” to use the military to deal with “the enemy within.” This is the term he uses to describe Americans who may protest his return to office. . He also said he would accept the election results, with a familiar caveat:
“If there’s no evidence of wrongdoing anywhere, I’m going to accept the outcome, and I hope that happens,” Trumps said. “Win, lose or draw, I hope that happens.”
Trump, still wearing a safety vest, spoke at length about the topic at the beginning of a Green Bay rally, one of his last chances to address Wisconsin voters before next week’s election. He praised the “very talented people” for putting everything together quickly and summarized their discussions in advance.
“One of my subordinates came up to me and said, “Sir, you know the word ‘garbage’ is the hottest word right now. Why not?” Trump said. “They stopped this garbage truck. I don’t know how they did it so quickly. They have some very talented people. They put up a big sign on the truck. Did you see that?
The former president went on to say that he was surprised by the height of the truck and wondered if a smaller model could have been used. He praised the truck driver’s looks, saying, “He looked like Cary Grant in his prime,” and confessed that he felt nervous about getting into a truck with so many cameras watching. At one point, President Trump appeared to grab a doorknob and miss.
“I said, ‘Hey, if you don’t go up there, you’re going to be so embarrassed.’ These stupid people are going to say he’s cognitively and physically disabled,” Trump said in Wisconsin. spoke to a state audience. “So, the stairs, the first staircase is like here. I’m saying, damn, that’s how the adrenaline went and I made it.”
“I strongly disagree with criticizing people based on who they vote for,” Harris told reporters earlier Wednesday, referring to Biden’s comments.
“I believe my job is to represent all people, whether they support me or not,” Harris said at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. “And as President of the United States, I will be president for all Americans, whether you vote for me or not.”
Just before Harris took to the stage at the Ellipse in Washington, at the same park where President Trump urged his supporters to “fight like hell” on January 6, 2021, Biden spoke to a pro-Harris Latino A conversation with an American resident lit the fuse. Defender.
“And just the other day, a speaker at a rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of trash,'” Biden said. “Well, let me tell you something…I don’t know any Puerto Ricans that I know…or in Puerto Rico where I am, my home state of Delaware, they are good, decent, honorable people. Some people.”
“The only trash floating around there is his supporters,” Biden added, pausing for a moment before continuing, “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American. It’s a target.”
Harris told reporters she spoke with Biden after Biden’s speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night, but the “garbage” gaffe was not brought up.
A recording of the White House call shared with news organizations shows Biden saying “supporters” (singular) instead of “supporters.”
Brett Favre, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback who spent most of his career with the Green Bay Packers, spoke before President Trump at a rally Wednesday. He also used the platform to criticize Biden.
“We are not trash,” Favre told the crowd. “How could[Biden]say that?”
President Trump thanked Favre for his support, saying there was “no one like him” and that he was a “special person.”
In his subsequent remarks, the former president mentioned women and his previously stated desire to “protect” them, a message he said his advisers had warned him not to use.
Defiantly, Trump continued.
“I want to protect the women of our country,” she said. “Well, whether the women like it or not, that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll protect them.”
