Trump slams Biden for supposedly calling MAGA garbage – hours after he called entire US a ‘garbage can’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Donald Trump has lashed out at Joe Biden for apparently calling his MAGA supporters “garbage” – despite the former president repeatedly describing the whole of the US as a “garbage can.” “While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” Trump wrote in an early morning Truth Social post on Wednesday. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.” Biden sparked a row on Tuesday when he responded to racist comments made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, when he referred to the US territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” Trump gestures at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Biden posted: “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.” He continued: “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. We’re like a garbage can, and they dump their criminals.” The former president then received raucous applause when he called for “the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer.” On Tuesday, just hours before Biden’s remarks, Trump again told supporters – this time in Pennsylvania – that “it’s like we’re a giant garbage can.” Trump has also sought to distance himself from Hinchcliffe’s comments – despite the comedian delivering his offensive remarks on stage at the GOP candidate’s big closing argument to voters.