The White House has tried to cover-up Joe Biden calling Donald Trump supporters “garbage” by doctoring the transcript of his remarks in a gaffe reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” jibe. The Mail has more.
The President was speaking to a Latino advocacy group when he made the gaffe that drew instant comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s infamous dismissal of Trump voters as “deplorables” in 2016.
“Just the other day, a speaker at [Trump’s] rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage’,” Biden, 81, told a Latino advocacy group.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, his demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
In a desperate attempt to clean up the President’s mess, a White House spokesman issued a damage-control statement that added an apostrophe to the word “supporter’s” to imply that Biden was only referring to one person – comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made a joke about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage”.
But Biden’s gaffe sparked immediate fury from MAGA fans, with Trump himself saying he thought it was “worse” than Clinton’s now-infamous 2016 rant.
Biden said in a cleanup statement: “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it.
“His demonisation of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
However, people on both sides of the aisle were either perplexed or outraged with the President’s statement.
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