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Idiot Trump Hits Back at Biden’s “Garbage” Quote With Dumbest Stunt

Donald Trump’s answer to Joe Biden is, quite literally, garbage.

Donald Trump speaks to reporters while sitting in a campaign-branded garbage truck
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In 2016, Donald Trump promised that he would drain the swamp. In 2024, he’s circling the drain himself.

The MAGA leader’s campaign thought it could use a clever visual to respond to President Joe Biden’s verbal gaffe on Wednesday, in which the 81-year-old accidentally suggested that Trump supporters were “garbage.”

But the political stunt was anything but clever. On Wednesday evening, Trump was spotted riding shotgun in a garbage truck bearing American flags and Trump campaign signage, as it drove in slow, loose circles on the tarmac in Green Bay, Wisconsin, seemingly owning the garbage symbolism rather than hitting back at it.

Biotech millionaire and potential Trump second administration Cabinet member Vivek Ramswamy also joined in on the weird response, hopping aboard an actual truck to scoop up trash around Charlotte, North Carolina.

The attempt was clear—but the delivery, not so much.

“We’re not the garbage, we’re *taking out* the garbage,” Ramaswamy captioned the video on X.

A video of Trump trying (and struggling) to open the garbage truck door has not exactly helped his attempt at a clapback.

Trump and his allies were, in fact, the ones who brought the topic of garbage up first. Last week, Trump claimed that America’s immigration policies had made it a “garbage can for the world.” Days later, a guest speaker at the Republican presidential nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally—comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—joked that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.”

That Racist Puerto Rico Joke Just Cost Trump a Major Endorsement

Reggaeton artist and Latin superstar Nicky Jam has pulled his endorsement of Donald Trump after that wildly racist joke.

Nicky Jam performing
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The fallout from that deeply racist joke about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend continues to snowball, as a Reggaeton superstar who initially endorsed Trump has now rescinded his support.

Nicky Jam, who was born in Massachusetts and raised in Puerto Rico, took to Instagram Wednesday afternoon to express his disgust with the rally’s rhetoric toward his home.

He sits in the back seat of a car and speaks directly to the camera. Jam states, in Spanish, to his 45 million followers that his early support for Trump was based on economic issues, as he saw Trump’s business acumen as a potential positive for the many Latino immigrant families struggling to make a living in the United States.

The post then takes a sharp turn. “Never in my life did I imagine that a month later, a comedian would come and insult my country and speak so badly about my country. And therefore I revoke any support for Donald Trump.

“Puerto Rico deserves respect,” he added. The video is 50 seconds long and already had 78,000 likes two hours after it was posted. The comments are turned off.

Jam is one of many Latino celebrities and public figures who have condemned Trump and Hinchcliffe’s comments. Puerto Rican icons Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Don Omar have each used their platform to reaffirm support for Harris, while Trump and JD Vance continue to downplay the offensive remarks.

Trump Trashes Democrats After Claiming What Biden Said Was Mean

Donald Trump is back to his usual self, mere hours after complaining about Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment.

Donald Trump yells into a handheld mic
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Mere hours after Donald Trump was falsely preaching love and acceptance and accusing Kamala Harris of “running a campaign of hate,” the former president was back to his same old antics.

“These are horrible people,” said Trump at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, referring to Democrats. “Oops, we should get along with everybody. They’re horrible people. Some people you just can’t get along with.”

With a wink and a nod, Trump is showing his supporters he doesn’t really care about being polite to those he considers his political enemies.

Late Tuesday evening, Trump went on a posting rampage on Truth Social and Twitter, accusing President Joe Biden and Harris of not spreading positive enough vibes.

“While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” he wrote on Truth Social just after midnight. “She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters “garbage.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People.”

Biden, for what it’s worth, says he was only calling one specific Trump supporter “garbage”: the comedian at Trump’s rally who called Puerto Ricans the same.

Clearly Trump is playing the fiddle here. We all know that much more offensive and frightening stuff comes out of his own mouth nearly every day.

Cognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Weird Tangent Explaining Water

Watch how Donald Trump tried to explain Hurricane Helene to a crowd in North Carolina.

Donald Trump splays his hands outward while speaking near his car
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Former President Donald Trump should leave the meteorology to the professionals.

After taking jabs at Kamala Harris and his second debate moderators at a North Carolina rally Wednesday afternoon, Trump suddenly turned to Hurricane Helene, the category storm that devastated large swaths of the state earlier this month, leaving 130 people dead and damaging key infrastructure beyond repair.

“I must’ve been the first one, I followed that storm right in,” the former president said. “I saw the devastation, it was a travesty, it was viscous, it was water. The water was the worst we’d ever seen. It was a water hurricane, that’s what it was.”

This may have been a part of Trump’s usual meandering rally ramblings, or he may just be truly unaware of what a Category 4 hurricane entails. Either way, he spent an ample amount of time explaining how a hurricane works to a crowd that just experienced one of the deadliest hurricanes in two decades.

After more ranting, Trump then re-upped the false claim that the federal disaster response was a complete failure due to Democrats taking money out of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to “give” to immigrants.  

“They don’t have any money for North Carolina, or a lot of other states, you find out they don’t have any money. FEMA spent money on bringing illegal aliens into our country.”

This conspiracy has been thoroughly debunked. FEMA has approved $100 million of aid to North Carolina. It did not spend any of its disaster funds on the southern border, and even Republicans have pushed back on this claim. But as with his meteorology report, Trump seems to be making it all up as he goes along. 

Weird Statues of Donald Trump Keep Popping Up in Different Cities

Incredibly on the nose, some of the statues of the former president are appearing behind naked statues of women.

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Mysterious statues of Donald Trump are popping up across the country leaving some amused, some perplexed, and Republicans, of course, offended.

In Philadelphia and in Portland, Oregon, golden statues of the former president have popped up behind statues of naked women in their respective downtowns, bearing the title, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault.”

Each statue had a plaque quoting Trump in the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape: “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Twitter screenshot Jennifer Bendery @jbendery: A reader in Philly has flagged another mysterious new monument that has magically appeared in a public park to "honor" Trump. It looks a lot like the ones popping up in DC. Titled "In Honor Of A Lifetime Of Sexual Assault," it features Trump's "grab em by the pu**y" comment. (photo of the Trump statue behind a naked woman statue and a close-up photo of the plaque)

While in Philadelphia, the statue was quickly removed by city workers, in Portland, the golden Trump was beheaded.

And Washington, D.C., residents spotted a new statue at the Capitol this week, a bronze tiki torch sculpture titled, “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame.”

Conversation Jennifer Bendery @jbendery · Oct 28 NEW: Another mysterious and absurd monument has appeared in D.C., this time by the White House and this time it's a tiki torch monument honoring Trump for calling neo-Nazis "very fine people." From huffpost.com Jennifer Bendery @jbendery “The Donald J. Trump Enduring Flame” monument appeared early Monday near the White House. It depicts a hand holding up a flaming tiki torch -- a nod to the torches carried by white nationalists at the violent "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va. (photo of tiki torch statue)

“This monument pays tribute to President Donald Trump and the ‘very fine people’ he boldly stood to defend when they marched in Charlottesville, Virginia,” the plaque accompanying the statue reads, referencing the infamous neo-Nazi march in 2017. The over eight-foot-tall sculpture is under 24-hour surveillance at the Freedom Plaza, where it will remain until 5 p.m. Thursday.

This followed the Nancy Pelosi poop desk that appeared at the National Mall to honor “the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 to loot, urinate and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election.”

The Washington Post scored an interview with one of the anonymous artists who created the tiki torch and poop displays. “We are hoping they spark conversation about what we view are certain political issues that are relevant to voters and how they make their decision voting,” he said.

Shortly after their call, the tiki torch had been snapped in half. “We’ll fix it,” the artist texted the Post.

Meanwhile, a giant 43-foot-tall naked Trump marionette has been touring around the United States, stopping in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Madison, and Detroit. The 6,000-pound statue is being trotted around by the anonymous collective as part of the Crooked and Obscene Tour, which the group says is meant to spark dialogue about “transparency—or lack thereof—in politics.” Predictably, Republicans across the country are mad. The Republican Party in Nevada, where the statue first debuted, said it “strongly condemns” the marionette, calling it “offensive.”

Twitter screenshot TheeGirlNextDior🌹 @mwah_maya So im driving to work this morning and all of a sudden i see a 30ft Trump statue flashing me (two photos of giant nude Trump statue)

Whether any of these sculptures actually reach the category of art or satire, or sway any voters, is yet to be seen.