From the Boeing 757 with his name to a white garbage truck, also with his name.
Trust US presidential candidate Donald Trump to be dramatic! But his latest piece of showmanship in Green Bay, Wisconsin, will surely worry the Democrats, who are busy firefighting to manage the damage caused by US President Joe Biden 'garbage' remark earlier.
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JUST IN: Donald Trump holds a press conference from the passenger's seat of a garbage truck in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 30, 2024
He was seen wearing a safety vest.
The move comes just one day after Joe Biden called Trump supporters "garbage." pic.twitter.com/C43FhTJyYD
While responding to offensive statements made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at a Trump rally on Sunday, where he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”, Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporter’s’,” according to a transcript of his speech released by the White House.
Though the White House later clarified that Biden was referring to Hinchcliffe, and not Trump, and that he had meant “supporter’s” rather than “supporters”, the damage was already done.
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. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The…
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2024
Trump, who was on the backfoot because of Hinchcliffe's remarks, was quick to latch on to Biden's remark, riding the garbage truck to rub it in. “How do you like my garbage truck,” Trump, wearing an orange and yellow safety vest over his white shirt and red tie, asked reporters. “This is in honour of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
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The former president and Republican candidate had distanced himself from Hinchcliffe's remarks on Puerto Ricans. “I don't know anything about the comedian. I don't know who he is. I've never seen him. I heard he made a statement, but it was a statement that he made. He's a comedian, what can I tell you. I know nothing about him.”
“I love Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me,” Trump said from the garbage truck.
He took the stage for the rally later, still wearing the orange vest.
Trump accused Biden of referring to all his supporters as garbage."We're 'garbage.' And I call you the heart and soul of America," Trump said.
