White House tries to cover up Biden calling Trump supporters 'garbage' in speech transcript as it frantically tries to limit damage to Harris campaign

The White House launched into panic mode connected Tuesday nighttime aft President Biden referred to Donald Trump supporters arsenic 'garbage.'

The president was speaking to a Latino defense group erstwhile he made nan boneheaded gaffe that drew instant comparisons to Hillary Clinton's infamous dismissal of Trump voters arsenic 'deplorables' successful 2016. 

'Just nan different day, a speaker astatine his (Trump's) rally called Puerto Rico a "floating land of garbage,"' Biden reiterated to a Latino defense group.

'The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's wholly contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.'

In a hopeless effort to cleanable up the 81-year-old's president's mess, a White House spokesperson added an apostrophe to nan connection 'supporter's' to connote that Biden was only referring to 1 person.

The harm power connection insisted Biden was referring to conscionable 1 protagonist - comedian Tony Hinchcliffe for making nan joke astir Puerto Rico being an 'island of garbage.' 

'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,' Biden said successful his ain cleanup statement. 

'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.'

However, group connected some sides of nan aisle were either perplexed aliases outraged pinch nan president's statement. 

Trump seized connected Biden's comment, declaring it was 'worse' than what Clinton said 8 years ago, and Democrats instantly began distancing themselves from nan president. 

His moving mate, JD Vance, made respective tweets furious astir nan incident, writing: 'A mother mourning her boy who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A motortruck driver who can't spend rising diesel prices is not garbage. A begetter who wants to spend groceries is not garbage.'

'Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to beryllium ashamed of themselves,' he added.

Trump's run societal media relationship posted nan video and commented: 'When Joe wakes up and wonders why his intern tweeted this — we will time off this present arsenic a reminder.'

Even immoderate liberals were outraged by Biden's comments. 

'As nan leader of nan Democratic Party, President Biden had ONE occupation tonight: to STFU and fto nan existent nominee person nan news cycle. However you construe his words, he wasn’t capable to do that,' wrote Leah McElrath.

It came arsenic Harris was hoping to seizure nan nation's afloat attraction pinch a cautiously planned rally successful beforehand of nan White House for 75,000 Democrats one week earlier Election Day. Harris utilized nan arena to make her last lawsuit for why she should beryllium elected president. 

New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait added: 'I deliberation Biden was trying to picture nan speaker's comment, not each Trump supporters, arsenic garbage. I besides deliberation Biden should beryllium staying distant from cameras and media but his ego won't fto him.'

Poll aggregator and writer Nate Silver went a measurement further, suggesting nan comments made Biden unfit to proceed his lame duck term. 

'The truth that he can't consistently speak intelligibly to a constituent of reasonable comprehension mightiness besides look to connote that he shouldn't beryllium nan President of nan United States,' nan Signal and nan Noise writer wrote. 

One journalist, John Harwood, attempted to tut tut nan anger astatine Biden, calling 'the phony outrage for Biden's remark is garbage.' 

When Biden's remark emerged Trump was astatine a rally successful Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was told astir it by Republican legislator Marco Rubio while still connected stage.

Rubio told nan crowd he had 'breaking news' and that Biden had called them 'garbage'. He added: 'We are not garbage, we are patriots, we emotion America.'

Trump said 'that's terrible' and recalled Clinton's 'deplorables' remark. He added: 'Garbage, I think. is worse.'

He added: 'Please forgive him (Biden) because he knoweth not what he said.'

Donald Trump Jr. said: 'The media spent each week crying astir a joke from a comedian. Meanwhile, Tim Walz called Trump supporters Nazis. Kamala Harris refused to condemn it.

'And now Kamala's biggest Democrat ally, Joe Biden, is calling each Trump supporters "garbage". Absolutely disgusting!!!'

Elon Musk, nan Trump-supporting Tesla and SpaceX chief, added: 'Biden conscionable called half of America ‘garbage.’ 

Biden's bungled connection besides took attraction distant from Kamala Harris' run arena successful Washington D.C. intended to beryllium bring her 'closing argument' to voters. 

Josh Shapiro, politician of nan cardinal battleground authorities of Pennsylvania, was among nan first Democrats to region themselves from Biden's comment.

Shapiro was unrecorded connected CNN erstwhile informed of nan remark.

He said: 'I would ne'er reproach nan bully group of Pennsylvania aliases immoderate Americans moreover if they chose to support a campaigner that I didn't support.

'It's surely not words I would choose.'

Biden, connected a Zoom telephone pinch supporters, stepped connected Harris' infinitesimal by appearing to lash retired astatine Trump supporters successful what Republicans lambasted arsenic a 'disgusting' attack.

The president was weighing successful aft a comedian astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday compared Puerto Rico to a 'floating land of garbage'.

Biden said: 'The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his (Trump's) supporter's.'

He later disputed that he had called Trump supporters 'garbage'. He said that by 'garbage' he meant 'hateful rhetoric' that had been connected show astatine nan Madison Square Garden rally.

He made nan incendiary remark connected a Zoom telephone organized by nan defense group Voto Latino.

Biden told those connected nan call: 'And conscionable nan different day, a speaker astatine his (Trump's) rally called Puerto Rico a “floating land of garbage”.

'Well, fto maine show you something. I don't, I, I don't cognize nan Puerto Rican that, that I know, aliases a Puerto Rico...where I'm from, successful my location authorities of Delaware, they're good, decent, honorable people.

'The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's wholly contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.'

Responding to nan furor nan White House released a transcript of Biden's comments successful which nan connection 'supporter's' had an apostrophe.

Officials suggested nan president was referring specifically and only to nan comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, who made nan Puerto Rico joke.

The transcript said: 'The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporter's - his - his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's wholly contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been.'

Spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden 'referred to nan hateful rhetoric astatine nan Madison Square Garden rally arsenic "garbage".'

At a fundraiser successful 2016, Clinton, nan Democratic statesmanlike nominee astatine nan time, dismissed Trump supporters by saying that 'half' fresh into what she called a 'basket of deplorables.'