Seeking to draw attention to US President Joe Biden’s apparent call of his supporters “trash,” Donald Trump descended the stairs of the Boeing 757 that bears his name and landed on the rain-soaked tarmac. He ran across it, missed the handle twice, and then climbed out. Wednesday in the passenger seat of a white garbage truck in Wisconsin.
“How about my garbage truck? This honors Kamala and Joe Biden,” Trump said animatedly, wearing an orange and yellow safety vest over a white dress shirt and red tie.
In response to questions from reporters sitting in a garbage truck, President Trump once again distanced himself from comments made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, whose rib-tickling remarks about Puerto Rico didn’t go as planned.
His comments calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash” angered Democrats and prominent Latinos, who make up a key group of Puerto Rican voters, especially in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
“I love Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me,” Trump said from a garbage truck. At the end of his conversation with reporters, President Trump said, “I hope you enjoy this garbage truck. Thank you.”
Joe Biden was among those who criticized Donald Trump’s remarks during his rally at Madison Square Garden. However, according to him, his statement was misunderstood.
“I don’t know any Puerto Ricans that I know…or Puerto Rico, my home state of Delaware, who are good, decent, honorable people,” the president said, adding, “I don’t know any Puerto Ricans that I know…or my home state of Delaware. The only trash there is,” he added. Look at his supporters floating there,” he said, referring to President Trump’s remarks at a rally at Madison Square Garden.
Biden was criticized by various segments of society and accused of “insulting” Americans.
Donald Trump also joined the bandwagon, responding: “Wow. That’s terrible. That’s what it is.”
Biden took to social media to clarify his remarks. “Earlier today, I called the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump supporters at President Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden trash, and that’s the only word I can use to describe it,” he said. I can’t think of anything,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has distanced himself from Tony Hinchcliffe’s comments, insisting he does not know the comedian. He went on to say that Mr Hinchcliffe should not have been invited to speak at the rally because he did not want anyone to make “dirty jokes” on him.
