Trash Talk Takes Center Stage: How a Single Word Ignited the US Campaign’s Fiery Final Stretch
The White House campaign and Donald Trump clashed over whether President Joe Biden called Trump supporters “trash,” the Washington Post reported last night.
The scandal erupted in the presidential race last night after Joe Biden criticized former President Donald Trump during a virtual event and later denied calling Trump supporters “trash.”
Biden was speaking at a rally for Latino voters when he addressed a racist slur from a speaker at Trump’s rally in Puerto Rico over the weekend.
“The other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘garbage island.’Biden said, referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at a Trump rally on Sunday in New York.
Then the president, as he tends to do recently, in the Washington Post, quoted by BTA, went astray, trying to suggest that Hinchcliffe’s characterization was not how he would describe the Puerto Ricans he knows him.
“They are good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating around are his fans. His – his – Spanish demonization is unconscious and un-American.”Biden said, according to an audio recording by a Washington Post reporter who overheard the conversation.
Asked for comment, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement: “President calls hate speech trash at Madison Square Garden rally”.
The White House initially provided a transcript of Biden’s remarks, which it claimed showed he said “fans”. A few hours later, the White House released a new transcript containing the word “fan”which apparently only applies to the comedian.
According to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity, the change came after White House officials spoke to the president, who wanted to say that the comedian’s language was “rubbish”.
Biden’s tone was at odds with the conciliatory message that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has been trying to convey throughout her campaign. Harris intends to make a broad appeal for support, including among disaffected Republicans.
Immediately after Biden’s comments, he promised to be “President of all Americans”.
And Trump’s staff tried to explain to his supporters that Biden had insulted every Republican, not just the comedian Hinchcliffe.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate America and don’t deserve another four years in the White House”Caroline Leavitt, spokeswoman for the Republican candidate, said in a statement.
“That’s a terrible thing to say”Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Running mate JD Vance called Joe Biden’s comments “disgusting.”
“A while back, Joe Biden said our supporters, our patriots, are trash”said Republican Senator Marco Rubio. “He’s talking about ordinary Americans who love their country.”
In an interview with “Fox News” last night Trump distanced himself from the comedian’s comments, saying he did not know who Tony Hinchcliffe was and said he should not have been on stage.
Moments later, Trump’s fundraising campaign sent out a text message that read: “Kamala’s boss, Joe Biden, just called all my supporters trash!”.
Trump and Blacks and Latinos
The New York Times pays attention to this how Donald Trump is exploiting the divide between black and Latino voters. His anti-immigrant messages reveal long-standing tensions and call into question Democrats’ hopes for unity, the newspaper noted, cited by BTA.
For months, the Trump campaign and its allies they effectively exploit divisions and prejudice in minority communities, turning them against immigrants and against each other.
Trump’s social media posts warn black and Latino voters that immigrants are coming for their jobs. His promises to save “conquered and captured” cities have been a feature of his rallies, including one Sunday in New York, a city where politicians have long preserved racial divisions to win elections.
In many ways, these appeals to black and Latino voters are not fundamentally different from those aimed at white voters: Illegal immigration can be blamed for your problems. Shortage of affordable housing? Stagnation in wages? Problems in schools? Urban crime? Mass deportation is a single, seemingly simple solution, the argument goes.
The us-against-them framework has long characterized political alliances across the ideological spectrum. But Trump has been far more direct than any other presidential candidate in his invitation to black and Latino voters to be part of “us” as long as they recognize that there is a “them” as well..
One of the Trump campaign’s most widespread Spanish-language TV ads, which attacked Kamala Harris for her support for medical care for transgender immigrants, said: “Kamala Harris is with them. President Trump is with us.”
At Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, several Trump campaign insiders made some of the most openly racist and anti-immigrant comments of the campaign — especially while speaking to a crowd that was more racially diverse than most Trump rallies.
Tucker Carlson, a conservative pundit, called Harris, who is black and Indian, “California’s first former Samoan-Malaysian D with a low IQ.”. Stephen Miller, Trump’s policy adviser, said: “America is for Americans and Americans only” – a version of a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan.
Only the election itself will tell if all this will attract more black and Latino voters than it will turn away. The Trump campaign distanced itself from the comments of one of the speakers – a comedian who called the US territory of Puerto Rico a “floating garbage island“.
CB Ed News quoted Trump as saying, “I think trash is worse,” and compared the comment to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton, when she called half of Trump’s supporters “despicable.” thing”.
“Please forgive him because he doesn’t know what he said,” Trump quipped to Biden.