Biden calls Trump supporters 'garbage'

President Joe Biden referred to Donald Trump supporters arsenic 'garbage' successful an astonishing outburst arsenic Vice President Kamala Harris issued her 'closing' plea successful the 2024 election.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief was responding to a comedian astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday comparing Puerto Rico to a 'floating land of garbage'. 

Biden's remark sparked an contiguous backlash from Republicans comparing it to when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters a 'deplorables' successful 2016.

He said: 'The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his (Trump's) supporters.'

The president made the remark connected a nationalist telephone telephone organized by the advocacy radical Voto Latino.

According to NBC Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez, helium said: 'Donald Trump has nary character. He doesn't springiness a damn astir the Latino community…just the different day, a talker astatine his rally called Puerto Rico a floating land of garbage?…The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters,' Biden said connected a Zoom telephone with the enactment Voto Latino.

In Politico's mentation of the event, Biden said that the 'only garbage' helium sees was the 'hatred' of Trump supporters who attacked American citizens. 

'Our diverseness is our strength,' helium added, and slammed his plans to behaviour the largest wide deportation successful past if helium is elected. 

Trump's moving mate J.D. Vance called it 'disgusting' and slammed Biden for attacking fractional the country.

Donald Trump Jr. slammed the hypocrisy aft the disapproval of the Madison Square Garden rally.,

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