The View dismisses outrage over President Biden's 'garbage' comments: 'Working very hard to spin this'

The wide co-hosts of "The View" dismissed outrage implicit President Biden appearing to telephone erstwhile President Trump's supporters "garbage" connected Tuesday.

"They're moving precise hard to rotation this to immoderate brainsick end," Whoopi Goldberg said astir the Republican absorption to Biden's remark connected Wednesday's show. Goldberg said she didn't "understand" wherefore Trump supporters would beryllium upset astir Biden's remark, erstwhile Trump had called the United States the world's "garbage can" for criminals and atrocious actors, successful comments criticizing the Biden-Harris administration's borderline policies.

"He’s called Democrats evil, dangerous, Marxists, communists, fascists, sick people, the force within, and helium said each that conscionable this week," Goldberg continued. "So I don't recognize wherefore you're clutching your pearls. You’re trying to marque thing retired of a lingua slip. Yeah, Hillary [Clinton] called these folks deplorable. Yeah, okay, it happened, but —" she began earlier co-host Joy Behar chopped in.

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Whoopi Goldberg excused President Biden's "garbage" remark astir Trump supporters arsenic a "slip of the tongue." (ABC/Screenshot)

"For months and months we’ve been proceeding however Joe Biden is successful dementia, that he’s old, he's doddering, helium can’t remember, each of a abrupt he’s wide arsenic a bell!" Behar quipped arsenic the hosts laughed.

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she thought Vice President Kamala Harris had "knocked it retired of the park" with her closing connection to voters past night, but that Biden had "stepped connected it."

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She suggested Harris' remark could sway undecided voters distant from Harris, saying Clinton's infamous "deplorables" remark astir Trump supporters from the 2016 election, "did matter."

"Turns retired she was right!" Goldberg said astir Clinton's insult.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) successful Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024.  (REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer)

Biden's arguable remark came during a virtual run lawsuit connected Tuesday with Voto Latino, 1 of the largest Latino elector and civic outreach organizations successful the United States.

Asked astir the derogatory gag astir Puerto Rico made by a comedian astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday, Biden said, "The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters. [Trump's] demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it is un-American."

Biden sought to clarify his remarks hours later, tweeting, "Earlier contiguous I referred to the hateful rhetoric astir Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's protagonist astatine his Madison Square Garden rally arsenic garbage—which is the lone connection I tin deliberation of to picture it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's each I meant to say. The comments astatine that rally don't bespeak who we are arsenic a nation."

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President Biden referred to Trump supporters arsenic "garbage" during a virtual Harris run call. (Screenshot/CNN)

Harris besides distanced herself from Biden's comments connected Wednesday.

"I powerfully disagree with immoderate disapproval of radical based connected who they ballot for," Harris told reporters. "You heard my code past nighttime and continuously passim career. I judge that the enactment that I bash is astir representing each the people, whether they enactment maine oregon not."

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Fox News' Scott McDonald and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.