Elections Biden pulls Hillary deplorables gaffe by calling Trump supporters trash

[White Whale]

Biden calls Trump supporters 'garbage' evoking 'deplorables' insult

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief was responding to a speaker at the former president's Madison Square Garden rally comparing Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

President Joe Biden overshadowed his vice president Kamala Harris' big 'closing' campaign plea by calling Donald Trump's supporters 'garbage' in an astonishing outburst.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief's bombshell gaffe evoked memories of Hillary Clinton's infamous dismissal of Trump voters as 'deplorables' in 2016, which contributed to her shock loss.

It came as Harris was hoping to capture the nation's full attention with a carefully planned rally in front of the White House for 75,000 Democrats one week before Election Day.

Instead, Biden stepped on her moment by appearing to lash out at Trump's supporters in what Republicans lambasted as a 'disgusting' attack.

Trump himself seized on Biden's comment, saying it was 'worse' than what Clinton said eight years ago.

Biden later disputed that he had called Trump supporters 'garbage'. He said that by 'garbage' he meant 'hateful rhetoric' that had been on display at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

The president was weighing in after a pro-Trump comedian at that rally compared Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage'.

Biden said: 'The only garbage I see floating out there is his (Trump's) supporters.'

He made the comment on a Zoom call organized by the advocacy group Voto Latino.

Biden told those on the call: 'And just the other day, a speaker at his (Trump's rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”.

'Well, let me tell you something. I don't, I, I don't know the Puerto Rican that, that I know, or a Puerto Rico. Where I'm from, in my home state of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people.

'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.'

When Biden's comment emerged Trump was at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was told about it by Republican senator Marco Rubio while still on stage.

Rubio said: 'We are not garbage, we are patriots, we love America.'

Trump recalled Clinton's 'deplorables' remark and told the crowd: 'Garbage, I think. is worse.'

He added: 'Please forgive him (Biden) because he knoweth not what he said.'

Trump's running mate J.D. Vance said of Biden's comment: 'This is disgusting. Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country. There's no excuse for this. I hope Americans reject it.'



This makes you wonder if Biden is trying tank Kamala's campaign? Democrats do feel this way about half of the country but the president saying this is incredible.

 

[degoj99]

I'm curious how wacky the left is going to get when Trump wins. Biden, Harris, both Obamas, H. Clinton, all terrible human beings for how they've been carrying on recently.

 

[K-Bag]

GOATmala has nothing to do with him.

 

[Black9]

You MAGA people are overreaching now, clearly in the transcript he says what the supporter SAID about puerto rico was garbage and demonizing people was garbage.

It's literally in the whitehouse transcript and the full video:

Remarks by President Biden on a Call with Voto Latino | The White House

6:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: (In progress) -- and your friendship. And thanks to everyone -- MS. TERESA: So, President -- THE PRESIDENT: -- at Voto

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I guess it comes down to whether he said “supporters” or “supporters’” (with an apostrophe after the s). In other words was he calling the supporters themselves garbage or was he referring to [their] garbage (ie their rhetoric). Unfortunately, there’s no way to determine from the spoken word if there was an apostrophe at the end of the word supporters so it’s open to interpretation.

“Curse you, English language!” - Biden, probably.

 

[White Whale]

You MAGA people are overreaching now, clearly in the transcript he says what the supporter SAID about puerto rico was trash.

It's literally in the whitehouse transcript and the full video:

Remarks by President Biden on a Call with Voto Latino | The White House

6:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: (In progress) -- and your friendship. And thanks to everyone -- MS. TERESA: So, President -- THE PRESIDENT: -- at Voto

www.whitehouse.gov

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/biden-trump-supporters-garbage/index.html

Biden seeks to clean up ‘garbage’ comment about Trump supporters denigrating Latinos

President Joe Biden on Tuesday tried to clean up comments he made earlier that sparked immediate backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to supporters of former President Donald Trump as “garbage.”

Speaking during a Voto Latino get out-the-vote call, Biden — in reaction to Trump’s offensive rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday — said, “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something … I don’t know the Puerto Rican that I know… or Puerto Rico where I’m – in my home state of Delaware – they’re good, decent, honorable people.”

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said, pausing for a moment before continuing. “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’s comments drew swift backlash online, with Republicans immediately connecting them to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 remark that half of Trump’s supporters were “deplorables.” Biden’s remarks came just as Vice President Kamala Harris was set to take the stage for a major rally in Washington, DC.

“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,” Biden posted on X later that evening. “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.”

When CNN asked for an explanation on the president’s comments, a White House spokesperson insisted that Biden had meant “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” arguing that he had actually said this: “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 President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said.

The White House is trying to explain and clean up this comment. Democrats have got to be banging their heads against the wall even though Biden was just saying the quiet part out loud.

 

[Gas121]

This really is turning into a circus. Point scoring from both sides. This feels more like a soap opera than an election. Embarrassing.

 

[Soggust]

You MAGA people are overreaching now, clearly in the transcript he says what the supporter SAID about puerto rico was trash.

It's literally in the whitehouse transcript and the full video:

Remarks by President Biden on a Call with Voto Latino | The White House

6:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: (In progress) -- and your friendship. And thanks to everyone -- MS. TERESA: So, President -- THE PRESIDENT: -- at Voto

www.whitehouse.gov

I think the better defense here is to argue it's true lol

 

[WhiteMousse]

You MAGA people are overreaching now, clearly in the transcript he says what the supporter SAID about puerto rico was trash.

It's literally in the whitehouse transcript and the full video:

Remarks by President Biden on a Call with Voto Latino | The White House

6:53 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: (In progress) -- and your friendship. And thanks to everyone -- MS. TERESA: So, President -- THE PRESIDENT: -- at Voto

www.whitehouse.gov

Why don't you just say "who cares" instead of lying?

 

[Black9]

Obviously it's between "Supporter's" or "Supporters". In the transcript it's obvious what he meant he was talking about "demonizing people" was trash. Unlike Trump with Puerto Rico and "Enemy Within" he immediately made it clear what he meant and apologized.

The funniest part of this was you MAGA people were all up in arms saying "Stop being so offended about everything" just a day ago now you're twisting a story to be offended.

 

[ShadowRun]

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

This really is turning into a circus. Point scoring from both sides. This feels more like a soap opera than an election. Embarrassing.

100%. I think if I had to describe this election cycle, it'd be:

"ding-dongs cheering for a turbo narcissist Ex-President vs. turbo narcissists cheering for a milquetoast Vice-President".

 

[skysolo]

I wonder.

 

[Black9]

100%. I think if I had to describe this election cycle, it'd be:

"ding-dongs cheering for a turbo narcissist Ex-President vs. turbo narcissists cheering for a milquetoast Vice-President".

This really is turning into a circus. Point scoring from both sides. This feels more like a soap opera than an election. Embarrassing.

Yeah, i said it before, but i seriously wonder if Trump DOES lose...

What're all these MAGA people and the rest of them going to do with all this negativity? I'm assuming the Republicans are going to bust out a "milquetoast" nominee next time like Romney who won't make it this edgy.

 

[KOByFootStomp]

Biden thinks black people are garbage, he thinks white people are garbage, asians, latino's, LGBTQ, all garbage. Anyone who doesn't do or think what he say is garbage. He is by far and away the most racist, most divisive president in our countries history. Still people will vote democrat, because they're just as racist and hateful as he is.

 

[ShadowRun]

Biden thinks black people are garbage, he thinks white people are garbage, asians, latino's, LGBTQ, all garbage. Anyone who doesn't do or think what he say is garbage. He is by far and away the most racist, most divisive president in our countries history. Still people will vote democrat, because they're just as racist and hateful as he is.

The guy that thinks black kids are too stupid to uses computers think all races are garbage ? surprised

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Yeah, i said it before, but i seriously wonder if Trump DOES lose...

What're all these MAGA people and the rest of them going to do with all this negativity? I'm assuming the Republicans are going to bust out a "milquetoast" nominee next time like Romney who won't make it this edgy.

You're probably talking to the wrong person because I'm very much a negative skeptic on society as a whole at the moment, and I can't tell if this is the beginning of the end, or more the end of the beginning.

 

[KOByFootStomp]

The guy that thinks black kids are too stupid to uses computers think all races are garbage ? surprised

The guy thinks that poor kids are just as smart as white kids. He has also said that the black people's whole life experience and identity is invalid if they don't vote for him. He is about as hardcore racist as it gets, that's why he got a record number of votes from democrats. They are no longer afraid to put on their hoods, and they long for the days when black people were their property. Democrats has been and always will be the party of racism.

 

[Black9]

You're probably talking to the wrong person because I'm very much a negative skeptic on society as a whole at the moment, and I can't tell if this is the beginning of the end, or more the end of the beginning.

Well Trump did say if he loses he's not running in 2028.

Which leaves the door open on who will take the pie, I highly doubt Republicans are going to back a MAGA candidate again if they lose again. So we might go back to some normalcy.

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Well Trump did say if he loses he's not running in 2028.

Which leaves the door open on who will take the pie, I highly doubt Republicans are going to back a MAGA candidate again if they lose again. So we might go back to some normalcy.

That I don't doubt. But whether it's a Project 2025 type like Vance, or a generic corporate politician like Romney, or some freakshow circus candidate, I got no idea and think all of the above are very plausible.