The View dismisses outrage over President Biden's 'garbage' comments: 'Working very hard to spin this'

The wide co-hosts of "The View" dismissed outrage complete President Biden appearing to telephone erstwhile President Trump's supporters "garbage" connected Tuesday.

"They're moving very difficult to rotation this to immoderate crazy end," Whoopi Goldberg said astir nan Republican guidance to Biden's remark connected Wednesday's show. Goldberg said she didn't "understand" why Trump supporters would beryllium upset astir Biden's remark, erstwhile Trump had called nan United States nan world's "garbage can" for criminals and bad actors, successful comments criticizing nan Biden-Harris administration's separator policies.

"He’s called Democrats evil, dangerous, Marxists, communists, fascists, sick people, nan force within, and he said each that conscionable this week," Goldberg continued. "So I don't understand why you're clutching your pearls. You’re trying to make thing retired of a lingua slip. Yeah, Hillary [Clinton] called these folks deplorable. Yeah, okay, it happened, but —" she began earlier co-host Joy Behar trim in.

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Whoopi Goldberg excused President Biden's "garbage" remark astir Trump supporters arsenic a "slip of nan tongue." (ABC/Screenshot)

"For months and months we’ve been proceeding really Joe Biden is successful dementia, that he’s old, he's doddering, he can’t remember, each of a abrupt he’s clear arsenic a bell!" Behar quipped arsenic nan hosts laughed.

Fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she thought Vice President Kamala Harris had "knocked it retired of nan park" pinch her closing connection to voters past night, but that Biden had "stepped connected it."

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She suggested Harris' remark could sway undecided voters distant from Harris, saying Clinton's infamous "deplorables" remark astir Trump supporters from nan 2016 election, "did matter."

"Turns retired she was right!" Goldberg said astir Clinton's insult.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during Day 1 of nan Democratic National Convention (DNC) successful Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 19, 2024.  (REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer)

Biden's arguable remark came during a virtual run arena connected Tuesday pinch Voto Latino, 1 of nan largest Latino elector and civic outreach organizations successful nan United States.

Asked astir nan derogatory joke astir Puerto Rico made by a comedian astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday, Biden said, "The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters. [Trump's] demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it is un-American."

Biden sought to explain his remarks hours later, tweeting, "Earlier coming I referred to nan hateful rhetoric astir Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's protagonist astatine his Madison Square Garden rally arsenic garbage—which is nan only connection I tin deliberation of to picture it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's each I meant to say. The comments astatine that rally don't bespeak who we are arsenic a nation."

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President Biden referred to Trump supporters arsenic "garbage" during a virtual Harris run call. (Screenshot/CNN)

Harris besides distanced herself from Biden's comments connected Wednesday.

"I powerfully disagree pinch immoderate disapproval of group based connected who they ballot for," Harris told reporters. "You heard my reside past nighttime and continuously passim career. I judge that nan activity that I do is astir representing each nan people, whether they support maine aliases not."

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Fox News' Scott McDonald and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.