Trump’s latest antics place him in a garbage truck

GREEN BAY: Before appearing in front of a Wisconsin crowd dressed like a sanitation worker, the former United States president could be found talking to media in a garbage truck.

GARBAGE TRUCK

“I love Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me,” Trump said sitting in the driver’s seat of a campaign themed garbage truck. “I don’t know anything about a comedian,” the former president said about Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian who was among the speakers at the biggest rally of Trump’s campaign, which took place earlier in the week at MSG. Hinchcliffe had called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage,” which led to mass backlash.

“Nobody’s done more for Puerto Rico than me, I took care of them when they had the big hurricanes,” said Trump, who in 2019 stalled a relief package meant to aid the US territory after it had been ravaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Kevin Carroll, the former senior counsellor to Trump’s former homeland security secretary, and later Chief of Staff, John Kelly, stated that “Trump absolutely didn’t want to give aid to California or Puerto Rico purely for partisan politics – because they didn’t vote for him.” The former president eventually released as addition $13 billion in aid weeks before the 2020 election.

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GREEN BAY RALLY AND BIDEN’S COMMENTS

“This outfit you know is when he called us all garbage,” Trump said gesturing to his sanitation worker outfit while referring to comments US President Joe Biden made on Tuesday.

“What a stupid word, that blows deplorable away,” the former president said, wondering how Biden could stoop so low as to use the word ‘garbage’, forgetting that the US president’s comments were made in response to Hinchcliffe’s aforementioned jokes about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden earlier in the week.

“They’re (Puerto Ricans) good, honourable, decent people, the only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters,” Biden said on Tuesday.

The US president’s comments were met with immediate backlash, leading to the White House releasing an official transcript which attempted to frame the comment as a condemnation of Trump’s and Hinchcliffe’s rhetoric. This was done by combining Biden’s statement with what he said next, that the “demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

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“250 million Americans are not garbage,” said Trump, before delving into US Vice President Kamala Harris and how she has “been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history,” referring to Harris’ condemnation of Trump’s fascist remarks in which he allegedly praised Hitler’s generals for their unwavering loyalty.

“Speaking on a call for her campaign last night, crooked Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters, he called them garbage,” the Republican presidential candidate said, adding that his “supporters are far higher quality that crooked Joe or lying Kamala.”

“You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” said Trump. You can’t be president if you hate the American people, which I believe they do,” he added.

Trump then used his criticism of the current administration to launch into his usual tirade on migrants, saying “they treat you like garbage, they treat our whole country like garbage, with open borders.” Soon after the former president stated “they’ve thrown open your borders to criminals and terrorists, they’ve flooded your towns with deadly drugs and death. They’re incompetent people, they’ve given your jobs to illegal migrants.”

“This Tuesday is your chance to stand up and declare you are not going to take it anymore,” said Trump.

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