Former President Donald Trump did not take kindly to remarks made by President Joe Biden when he appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage.”
But he also asked his supporters to forgive Biden.
Biden’s words came Tuesday when he was asked about comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico “floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, per Fox News.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters,” Biden said.
Trump went to X, formerly Twitter, to say he had been running a positive campaign, while his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has not.
This makes both Biden and Harris unfit to be president, Trump said.
“While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” Trump tweeted. “Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters “garbage.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States.
“I am proud to lead the biggest, broadest, and most important political coalition in American history,” he wrote. “We are welcoming historic numbers of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump urged his supporters to forgive Biden when he first was alerted to Biden’s remarks at a rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to a report by Fox News.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) alerted Trump to what the president said.
“Wow. That’s terrible,” Trump said, before referring back to 2016 when Hillary Clinton called him “deplorable.”
“And then she said irredeemable,” Trump said. “That didn’t work out.”
But then, Trump said his supporters need to forgive Biden.
“Garbage, I think, is worse,” Trump added. “But he doesn’t know. You have to please forgive him.”
“Please forgive him for not knowing what he said,” Trump said. “These people are terrible, terrible, terrible to say a thing like that. But he really doesn’t know. He really honestly, he doesn’t. And I’m convinced that he likes me more than he likes Kamala. But that’s a terrible thing.”
The White House issued a statement regarding Biden’s remarks.
“Earlier today I 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,” Biden said on X. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
