A GOP lawmaker from Tennessee says he’ll introduce a Home decision condemning the president’s current remark during which he appeared to to check these backing former President Trump to rubbish.
The nonbinding decision is being provided by Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.) and was first reported by Fox Information.
“Whereas, on October 29, 2024, President Biden stated, ‘The only garbage I see floating around there is his supporters,’ referring to supporters of President Trump: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That House of Representatives condemns President Biden’s remarks referring to President Trump’s supporters as ‘garbage,'” a duplicate of the decision states.
The White Home has disputed that Biden was calling Trump supporters rubbish. It says Biden was describing as rubbish the remarks at a Trump rally at Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday by comic Tony Hinchcliffe, who joked that Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage.”
The White Home has circulated a transcript of Biden’s remarks throughout a name with Voto Latino, a serious advocacy group concentrating on Latino voters.
It reads: “I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I do know — or a Puerto Rico, the place I’m from, in my residence state of Delaware, they’re good, first rate, honorable individuals.”
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — 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.”
In a video of Biden’s feedback, nevertheless, he takes a pause after stating the phrase “supporters,” in order that the remarks sound extra like this: “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.”
Biden, who has a historical past of verbal gaffes, later clarified in a Tuesday publish on the social platform X that he had “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 demonization of Latinos is unconscionable,” Biden continued within the publish. “That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
Republicans have argued the Biden remarks are much like when 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton described Trump supporters as “deplorables.”
“First Democrats called half the country deplorables, now they are doubling down calling us garbage,” Rose said in a statement. “Democrats’ disrespect for half the country’s views and opinions is exactly what is wrong with the leadership of extreme far-left liberals.”
The Hill has reached out to the White Home for remark.
