As controversy raged Tuesday over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage,” President Joe Biden jumped into the fray by calling supporters of former President Donald Trump actual “garbage.”
In a video call organized buy advocacy group Voto Latino, Biden said, “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.”
Biden’s comments blew up on social media, with many referring to this as Biden’s “deplorables moment,” a callback to 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
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