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Former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s recent ‘garbage’ jab by hosting a press conference Wednesday from inside a garbage truck in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In a Zoom call Tuesday with Voto Latino, Biden called Trump’s supporters “garbage,” responding to comedian Hinchcliffe’s remarks at a Trump rally. Wearing a bright safety vest, the former president took a number of different questions from reporters gathering around the truck. “I think 250 million people in this country are gonna be very happy because we’re gonna bring the country back,” Trump told reporters. “We’re a nation in decline, very, very serious...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump drove around in a garbage truck in Wisconsin to troll his Democratic rival Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden after the president's "garbage" insult. "How do you like my garbage truck?" Trump said to reporters on Wednesday as he sat wearing an orange reflective vest in a white garbage truck emblazoned with his campaign logo, “Trump Make America Great Again 2024.”

Former President Trump rolled up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a garbage truck on Wednesday, an apparent reference to President Biden remarks about the Republican nominee's supporters. Trump was pictured in the white garbage truck wearing an orange reflective vest with “Trump Make America Great Again 2024” emblazoned on the vehicle as he was headed to the Resch Center for rally. "How do you like my garbage truck?" Trump asked reporters. "This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden." The stunt is an apparent dog at Biden, who has come under fire for calling Trump supporters garbage. As...

Vulnerable Democrat Senate candidates are scrambling away from President Joe Biden as his “garbage” smear on Trump supporters endangers candidates’ viability, while others refuse to say whether or not they actually think former President Donald Trump’s supporters are “garbage.” Arizona Democrat Senate nominee Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) entirely dodged Breitbart News’s comment request in response to whether or not he thinks Trump supporters are garbage.

House Republicans say the White House may have violated the law by altering the transcripts of President Biden’s “garbage” remarks Tuesday night. White House Counsel Edward Siskel was told in a letter from two key House Republicans that political spin doctors were “releasing a false transcript” of Mr. Biden’s words about supporters of former President Donald Trump. “The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be a violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” said the letter signed by Reps. Elise Stefanik of New York, House Republican Conference chairwoman, and James Comer of...

Pollster Frank Luntz said Wednesday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Joe Biden’s garbage comment could have a “huge” impact and might be the “turning point” that leads to former President Donald Trump’s victory in the election. Luntz said, “It’s going to be huge because this is not some comedian saying something stupid and offensive at a rally where he should have been just basically disinvited. This is the president of the United States endorsing his vice president, saying something — and I know that there’s different interpretations about what he said — it’s still inappropriate. He still shouldn’t be...

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Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck.” The custom garbage truck was waiting for Trump on the tarmac as he landed in Wisconsin. “Happening Now—President Trump is wheels down in Wisconsin…Everyone say hello to a special guest,” Trump campaign official Dan Scavino wrote on X, including a video of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck driving around the tarmac. Chris LaCivita, another campaign official, later posted a photograph of the GOP nominee inside the vehicle, wearing an orange safety vest. Biden labeled Trump supporters 'garbage' at a get...

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who is running in a tightly contested U.S. Senate race in Michigan, criticized President Joe Biden for calling Trump supporters “garbage.” Slotkin distanced herself from Biden during an appearance on a Michigan radio station Wednesday, Fox News reported. “He shouldn’t have said it, it’s inappropriate,” Slotkin said. “For me, I just think that kind of talk is the last thing we need in our politics.”

WATCH: President Trump speaks to the press from MAGA GARBAGE TRUCK ahead of Green Bay, WI rally

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied that President Joe Biden views Donald Trump’s supporters as garbage, contradicting Biden’s remarks that sent Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign into damage control. The departing president in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino Tuesday night said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” referencing Trump. Video of Biden’s remarks quickly went viral. Jean-Pierre Wednesday insisted, despite video evidence to the contrary, that Biden was not calling Trump supporters garbage. She referred reports to a statement on Biden’s X issued late Tuesday night in which he “clarified what...

Joe Biden has landed on his closing argument for why Americans should elect Kamala Harris as the next president. That is, anyone who supports Donald Trump is human scum. The moment came during remarks the president gave on Tuesday while discussing the Hispanic community in America. In a video posted to X by NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez on Tuesday night, Biden claimed Trump “has no character and “doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community.” The president referenced a joke told at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally this past weekend, wherein comedian Tony Hinchcliffe poked fun...

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough attempted a two-part defense of Joe Biden having yesterday called Trump supporters "garbage." [snip] Part Two: When forced to address the controversy, laugh it off. When Jonathan Lemire later raised Biden's "garbage" line, Scarborough put on a big, phony smile [see screencap] and emitted a faux chuckle.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

When a speaker at Donald Trump's wild Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday compared Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage' it sparked outrage. But wall-to-wall media coverage of the incident involving comedian Tony Hinchcliffe appears not to have changed many minds when it comes to voting. Just 0.7 percent of the electorate have a more negative view of Trump following the incident, which happened during a five-hour MAGA marathon in the heart of Manhattan.

Whoopi Goldberg told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that it turned out former Secretary of State and then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was right when she called supporters of Donald Trump “deplorables.” During the panel discussion on President Joe Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage,” Goldberg said, “So you know they’re working very hard to spin this to some crazy end, but this is my problem. let me explain to y’all. I don’t understand why all the pearl clutching over Biden’s statement. Why they all have a problem with what Biden said when what this other guy has said.” She...

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he will be voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election. The former Republican governor of California shared his shock endorsement on X Wednesday. 'I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians,' the actor wrote. Despite that, the Terminator star, 77, said that it's time for the country 'to move forward,' and that 'the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.' 'We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that...

The establishment media immediately tried to reframe and explain away President Joe Biden’s labeling of Trump supporters “garbage.” “There’s no way to spin it: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him. Kamala does not deserve four more years,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign national spokesperson, said Tuesday. Biden was speaking on an evening call on Tuesday to rally Latino voters when he brought up a Trump rally speaker’s racist insult of Puerto Rico over the weekend. The media, however, tried to spin it. “Trump and His Allies...

President Joe Biden’s “garbage” smear does not undercut the Vice President Kamala Harris message of “unity,”‘ Gov. Tim Walz (D) indicated Wednesday. Biden’s smear on Tuesday overshadowed Harris’s closing argument that night in which she said she would be a president for “all Americans.” The pledge came just days after she called former President Donald Trump a “fascist.” “I have to ask, does that undercut this closing message of unity from your campaign,” asked CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil about Democrats long list of demonizing Trump supporters. “No, certainly not,” Walz replied:

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) blasted Silicon Valley investor and Vice President Kamala Harris supporter Vinod Khosla, as he doubled down on President Joe Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage.” Khosla is one of the many billionaires backing Harris and he is completely undeterred by Biden’s now viral remarks about half the country. “Garbage is an understatement for MAGA extremists,” he said in part: This prompted Vance, Trump’s running mate, to openly wonder if Harris will return his contributions. “One of Kamala Harris’s biggest donors is doubling down on calling half the country ‘garbage,'” Vance observed, asking, “Will Kamala and her campaign...

Meghan McCain ripped President Joe Biden Tuesday night after his off-the-cuff comments calling Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage.” Biden’s comments came in the final week of a tense campaign in which Vice President Kamala Harris has slowly but steadily fallen in the polls – and overshadowed a rally in which she made her final appeal to voters. The departing president in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino said “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” referencing Trump. The comment met quick condemnation from Republicans and a mixture of horror and denial from Democrats.