Trump boards a garbage truck to draw attention to Biden remark

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump walked down the steps of the Boeing 757 that bears his title, walked throughout a rain-soaked tarmac and, after twice lacking the deal with, climbed into the passenger seat of a white rubbish truck that additionally carried his title.

The previous president, as soon as a actuality TV star identified for his showmanship, wished to attract consideration to a comment made a day earlier by his successor, Democratic President Joe Biden, that advised Trump’s supporters had been rubbish. Trump has used the comment as a cudgel in opposition to his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“How do you want my rubbish truck?” Trump stated, carrying an orange and yellow security vest over his white costume shirt and crimson tie. “That is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”

Trump and different Republicans had been going through pushback of their very own for feedback by a comic at a weekend Trump rally who disparaged Puerto Rico as a “floating island of rubbish.” Trump then seized on a remark Biden made on a late Wednesday name that “The one rubbish I see floating out there may be his supporters.”

The president tried to make clear the remark afterward, saying he had meant to say Trump’s demonization of Latinos was unconscionable. Nevertheless it was too late.

On Thursday, after arriving in Inexperienced Bay, Wisconsin, for a night rally, Trump climbed into the rubbish truck, carrying on a short dialogue with reporters whereas searching the window — much like what he did earlier this month throughout a picture alternative he staged at a Pennsylvania McDonalds.

He once more tried to distance himself from comic Tony Hinchcliffe, whose joke had set off the firestorm, however Trump didn’t denounce it. He additionally stated he didn’t must apologize to Puerto Ricans.

“I don’t know something concerning the comic,” Trump stated. “I don’t know who he’s. I’ve by no means seen him. I heard he made a press release, but it surely was a press release that he made. He’s a comic, what can I let you know. I do know nothing about him.”

A spokesperson for Trump stated the joke doesn’t mirror his views, however the former president has not addressed it himself.

“I really like Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me,” Trump stated from the rubbish truck.

He ended the temporary look by telling reporters: “I hope you loved this rubbish truck. Thanks very a lot.”

When he took the stage a short while later, he was nonetheless carrying the orange vest.