PUERTO RICO IS NOT A GARBAGE DUMP!!
Matthew Chapman
October 30, 2024
Matthew Chapman
October 30, 2024
RAW STORY
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, U.S. October 11, 2024. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
Former President Donald Trump engaged in a bizarre stunt ahead of his rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday: riding around in a garbage truck with his campaign logo printed on the side of it.
The truck was meant to draw attention to the campaign's grievance over President Joe Biden supposedly referring to Trump's supporters as "garbage" on a campaign call Tuesday evening. There is some dispute over what he said, and the White House has sought to clarify the "garbage" he referred to was the rhetoric of right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. The joke outraged many and sent the GOP into panic mode.
Trump delighted in his exhibition, speaking to reporters as he played with the truck while dressed in an orange safety vest.
“250 million people are not garbage,” he said. It's unclear where he got that number, which is more than three times the number of people who voted for him in 2020.
MAGA commentators on social media loved the stunt, proclaiming Trump a genius — but commenters on the left laughed at Trump and wondered why he insisted on dragging out a controversy that appeared to be hurting him.
"Hold the f--- on… did Donald Trump actually cosplay as a garbage man, in an actual f---ing garbage truck, while taking questions from the press about the speaker at HIS rally, who said Puerto Rico was garbage?" wrote political commentator "JoJoFromJerz."
"As Americans are outraged by someone at his rally who compared Puerto Rico to garbage, Trump thought it would be cute to take questions from a gigantic garbage truck," wrote progressive reporter Aaron Rupar.
"It takes some real 'let’s just do it and be legends' thinking to stick Trump in a damn garbage truck," wrote national security attorney Bradley Moss. He added, "I’m sorry, everyone else saw him straight up miss the door handle and nearly fall over, right?"
"Donald Trump, in an orange vest sitting in a garbage truck (?), says he doesn't know anything about Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who told horribly racist jokes at his disastrous rally at Madison Square Garden. All of this is super weird & desperate," wrote commentator Art Candee.
"Trump, shortly before calling Kamala Harris unwell, nearly busted his ass while trying to get in a garbage truck," wrote "Right Wing Cope," an account dedicated to compiling embarrassing moments for the GOP. "The stable genius is stable geniusing again."
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, U.S. October 11, 2024. REUTERS/Fred Greaves
Former President Donald Trump engaged in a bizarre stunt ahead of his rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday: riding around in a garbage truck with his campaign logo printed on the side of it.
The truck was meant to draw attention to the campaign's grievance over President Joe Biden supposedly referring to Trump's supporters as "garbage" on a campaign call Tuesday evening. There is some dispute over what he said, and the White House has sought to clarify the "garbage" he referred to was the rhetoric of right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. The joke outraged many and sent the GOP into panic mode.
Trump delighted in his exhibition, speaking to reporters as he played with the truck while dressed in an orange safety vest.
“250 million people are not garbage,” he said. It's unclear where he got that number, which is more than three times the number of people who voted for him in 2020.
MAGA commentators on social media loved the stunt, proclaiming Trump a genius — but commenters on the left laughed at Trump and wondered why he insisted on dragging out a controversy that appeared to be hurting him.
"Hold the f--- on… did Donald Trump actually cosplay as a garbage man, in an actual f---ing garbage truck, while taking questions from the press about the speaker at HIS rally, who said Puerto Rico was garbage?" wrote political commentator "JoJoFromJerz."
"As Americans are outraged by someone at his rally who compared Puerto Rico to garbage, Trump thought it would be cute to take questions from a gigantic garbage truck," wrote progressive reporter Aaron Rupar.
"It takes some real 'let’s just do it and be legends' thinking to stick Trump in a damn garbage truck," wrote national security attorney Bradley Moss. He added, "I’m sorry, everyone else saw him straight up miss the door handle and nearly fall over, right?"
"Donald Trump, in an orange vest sitting in a garbage truck (?), says he doesn't know anything about Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who told horribly racist jokes at his disastrous rally at Madison Square Garden. All of this is super weird & desperate," wrote commentator Art Candee.
"Trump, shortly before calling Kamala Harris unwell, nearly busted his ass while trying to get in a garbage truck," wrote "Right Wing Cope," an account dedicated to compiling embarrassing moments for the GOP. "The stable genius is stable geniusing again."
Trump rides in ‘big, beautiful’ MAGA garbage truck after Biden attack on his supporters
ByVictor Nava andAnna Young
ByVictor Nava andAnna Young
NEW YORK POST
A MURDOCH PAPER ENDORSES TRUMP
The stunt comes one day after President Biden, 81, referred to Trump supporters as “garbage” on a campaign call at the White House, denouncing comments made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe, in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said during a call with Voto Latino Group, as Vice President Kamala Harris rallied at the nearby Ellipse in Washington, DC, pressing how the Democratic Party would unify the country.
Republicans blasted the insult and drew immediate comparisons to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remark in 2016 that half of Trump’s supporters should be “put into the basket of deplorables.”
“I don’t know anything about the comedian. I don’t know who he is. I heard he made a statement but it’s a statement that he made. He’s a comedian. What can I tell you? You put comedians up, and I guess he went on early in the show.”
Hinchcliffe has since defended his controversial remark, insisting it was a joke.
The garbage truck is following the motorcade enroute to Trump’s Green Bay rally, where the former president will speak later tonight.
Published Oct. 30, 2024
Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck.”
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump, who was wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters while sitting in the passenger seat of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck cruising around the tarmac.
“This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck.”
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump, who was wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters while sitting in the passenger seat of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck cruising around the tarmac.
“This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
The custom garbage truck was waiting for Trump on the tarmac as he landed in Wisconsin.AP
Trump speaks to the media at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport.Getty Images
The stunt comes one day after President Biden, 81, referred to Trump supporters as “garbage” on a campaign call at the White House, denouncing comments made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe, in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said during a call with Voto Latino Group, as Vice President Kamala Harris rallied at the nearby Ellipse in Washington, DC, pressing how the Democratic Party would unify the country.
Republicans blasted the insult and drew immediate comparisons to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remark in 2016 that half of Trump’s supporters should be “put into the basket of deplorables.”
Trump prepares to hold a press conference from inside garbage track.Getty Images
Biden and the White House tried to temper the comment by editing the official transcript to put an apostrophe in “supporters” — suggesting the president was referring solely to Hinchcliffe.
The commander in chief also tried to walk back the jab on X, writing, “his demonizations of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say.”
The Harris-Walz campaign also rushed out an ad tying Hinchliffe’s comment to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, in which Harris narrated: “I will never forget what Donald Trump did. He abandoned the island and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”
Trump has since distanced himself from Hinchcliffe, who drew widespread, bipartisan backlash after his opening.
When asked if he owes Puerto Rico an apology, Trump, while sitting in the garbage truck, claimed he didn’t know “anything about a comedian” and then professed his “love” of the Caribbean Island.
Biden and the White House tried to temper the comment by editing the official transcript to put an apostrophe in “supporters” — suggesting the president was referring solely to Hinchcliffe.
The commander in chief also tried to walk back the jab on X, writing, “his demonizations of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say.”
The Harris-Walz campaign also rushed out an ad tying Hinchliffe’s comment to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, in which Harris narrated: “I will never forget what Donald Trump did. He abandoned the island and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”
Trump has since distanced himself from Hinchcliffe, who drew widespread, bipartisan backlash after his opening.
When asked if he owes Puerto Rico an apology, Trump, while sitting in the garbage truck, claimed he didn’t know “anything about a comedian” and then professed his “love” of the Caribbean Island.
Biden labeled Trump supporters as “garbage” at an event on Monday. AP
“Nobody has done more for Puerto Rico than me. I took care of them when they had the big hurricanes. Nobody gets along better with Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people than me. They love me and I love them,” he said.
“Nobody has done more for Puerto Rico than me. I took care of them when they had the big hurricanes. Nobody gets along better with Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people than me. They love me and I love them,” he said.
“I don’t know anything about the comedian. I don’t know who he is. I heard he made a statement but it’s a statement that he made. He’s a comedian. What can I tell you? You put comedians up, and I guess he went on early in the show.”
Hinchcliffe has since defended his controversial remark, insisting it was a joke.
The garbage truck is following the motorcade enroute to Trump’s Green Bay rally, where the former president will speak later tonight.
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