Moments after President Biden shook up the 2024 campaign by calling Trump supporters «garbage,» the White House and prominent media figures sprang into action to try and tamp down the severity of the commander in chief’s insult.
Moments after President Biden shook up the 2024 campaign by calling Trump supporters “garbage,” the White House and prominent media figures sprang into action to try and tamp down the severity of the commander in chief’s insult.
Below, The Post presents a minute-by-minute look at how Tuesday night’s spin effort unfolded.
Around 7 p.m. Tuesday: Biden says on a teleconference hosted by Voto Latino: “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community.”
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”7:21 p.m.
Politico White House bureau chief and MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire publishes an item reading: “Biden, in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino, said ‘the only garbage’ was the ‘hatred’ of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens.”7:33 p.m.
NBC News senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez tweets: “Pres. Biden tonight: ‘Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.
