Former President Donald Trump made a bold statement on Wednesday, riding in a garbage truck on his way to a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
#BREAKING: President Trump is riding a garbage truck.
The left is going to lose their minds. pic.twitter.com/Smk1cQQQcp
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024
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The move was a pointed response to Joe Biden’s recent comments in which he referred to Trump’s supporters as “garbage.”
Obama called us clingers.
Hillary called us deplorables.
Kamala calls us fascists.
And Biden just called us garbage.They don’t respect us & don’t want unity.
But we do.
We want to Make America Great Again.
Our coalition is for ALL AMERICANS.
And in 7 days, we will UNITE… pic.twitter.com/WYZePbYOyK— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) October 30, 2024
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Trump, who wore an orange safety vest, waved from the passenger window as he called out Biden’s rhetoric and reaffirmed his commitment to “bring the country back.”
“Hello everybody. This is Donald Trump, and 250 million people are not garbage,” Trump said before he sat in the garbage truck, decorated with “TRUMP” and “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” banners.
President Trump is about to get off Trump Force One…and head over to the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck here in Wisconsin… pic.twitter.com/XpqvRFqgJv
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) October 30, 2024
From the truck’s window, he asked the press, “How do you like my garbage truck?”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.” pic.twitter.com/7UwMZ8syvx
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
Trump emphasized that the ride was “in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden” and declared, “250 million people are going to be very happy because we’re going to bring the country back.”
“WE’RE GONNA BRING OUR COUNTRY BACK!” 🔥 pic.twitter.com/2c7HG23HYL
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
Trump’s choice of a garbage truck quickly gained traction on social media, where supporters praised the former president for connecting with everyday Americans.
Trump has taken the comment as a broad insult, drawing a parallel to Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” remark in 2016, which Clinton used to describe many of Trump’s supporters.
At a North Carolina rally held earlier on Wednesday, Trump addressed the situation, saying, “This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history… then, on a call for her campaign last night, Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them garbage, and they mean it.”
Trump emphasized that he believes Biden’s and Harris’s dismissive language reveals a lack of respect for ordinary Americans. “My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump: “Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters, he called them ‘garbage.’ And they mean it…My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple; you can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.” pic.twitter.com/7chaOvxyQm
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 30, 2024
Trump used the opportunity to thank sanitation workers across the country, saying that his supporters “are the heart and soul of America.”
The imagery of the garbage truck ride was unmistakable, representing his intent to “clean up Washington” and address what he views as failures in leadership from the Biden-Harris administration.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) weighed in on the situation, saying, “The Biden-Harris economy is so bad that seniors have to work two jobs just to make ends meet.”
The Biden-Harris economy is so bad that seniors have to work two jobs just to make ends meet. pic.twitter.com/kdwZgMmQeH
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) October 30, 2024
Vivek Ramaswamy, another prominent conservative, doubled down by physically picking up trash as part of his support for Trump’s message.
WOW! It wasn’t just Trump. Vivek Ramaswamy also became a professional garbage collector today 😂😂😂
We turned Biden’s disgusting insult into a nationwide movement to get people to appreciate blue-collar workers again.
This is what the America First movement is all about. pic.twitter.com/ecAp7jqjWf
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 30, 2024
We’re not the garbage, we’re *taking out* the garbage. pic.twitter.com/cwNQjVeFLn
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 30, 2024
The Biden-Harris campaign attempted to counter the imagery, with a spokesperson for Kamala Harris, Ian Sams, comparing Trump’s garbage truck stunt to former Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis’s infamous tank photo op in 1988, which was widely mocked.
https://t.co/1JybikjOC2 pic.twitter.com/PEzlrCyRj7
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
However, conservative commentators argued that Trump’s garbage truck ride was not only memorable but effectively underscored his message to “take out the trash” in Washington.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, political commentator on The View, suggested that Biden’s words were not directed at all Trump supporters but only at the comedian.
Am I cracking up? Yes.
Is it an effective stunt? No. He’s assuming voters hear “garbage” & think of Biden’s gaffe.. but Trump campaign’s Puerto Rico debacle is much deeper in the zeitgeist. A total fail. https://t.co/oI82bTTE96
— Alyssa Farah Griffin (@Alyssafarah) October 30, 2024
Yet, in response, she limited comments on her social media post, further fueling the narrative among Trump supporters that the Biden-Harris team is out of touch with Americans.
The incident reflects the heightened tension as the election approaches, with both campaigns deploying symbolic actions and statements to appeal to voters.
Trump’s bold statement in Green Bay, drawing supporters and social media praise, highlights his strategy to portray himself as the voice of everyday Americans standing up to the political establishment.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Kamala and Joe call you garbage. I call you the HEART AND SOUL of America. You built our country. Far more than they built it. pic.twitter.com/VJICqR0y5o
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
Concluding his remarks, Trump reiterated, “You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans.”
“You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans! You can’t be President if you hate the American people!” – Trump pic.twitter.com/D95Qz6oryb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 30, 2024
His garbage truck statement aligns with his broader campaign narrative that aims to connect with voters who feel overlooked by the current administration.
With less than two weeks until Election Day, the symbolism has resonated among conservatives, while Biden and Harris seek to clarify their intentions amid a heated campaign season.
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Senile, demented, old sniffy Joe calls Trump supporters garbage. Here is the garbage that he and Kamala have created. It all started with the feckless big-eared clown and pile of Adamschitt Barack Hussein Obama. Trump is gong to take out the garbage.
• Cutting off the penises of young boys so they can’t make babies when they’re older, and can’t grow one back no matter how many penis enlargement surgeries they do.
• Slicing off the breasts of young girls so they can’t breast feed the babies they can’t make because they had their ovaries and uteruses taken out. And future implants won’t help with breast-feeding either.
• Encouraging school districts to enforce policies that encourage administrators, teachers and counselors alike to facilitate the trangendering of young school children, and even pushing this process WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
• Promoting Gender Dysphoria diagnoses like there’s no tomorrow so that the kids can be quickly put on puberty blockers and other powerful body- and mind-altering pharmaceutical drugs with extremely detrimental side effects.
• Putting tampon machines in the boys’ bathrooms and locker rooms so they can deal with their drug-induced menstruation. Great for their self esteem, too, as well as for the normal boys to dwell upon (What does that look like?).
• Installing urinals in the girls’ bathrooms so they can practice not sitting down on the toilet to pee. They can also practice unzipping their zippers on their men’s trousers.
• Putting hard and soft porn books in the elementary, middle and high school libraries with many graphic pictures and how-to illustrations.
• Starting sex ed in kindergarten where kids are now shown how to masturbate, fondle, as well as copulate when they’re just a little bit older.
• Allowing a 6’4″ hulk, who still has a schlong, to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, showers and all.
• Permitting the same mentally ill monsters to play any women’s sport they want to as long as they don’t kill any of the poor petite little girls (that’s manslaughter).
• Legalizing the murdering of newborn babies by the mother and her doctor right up to the moment of birth. That’s called state-sponsored infanticide.
• Letting aborted newborns simply die on the operating table when they are born alive. No medical support, no pain palliative, no nothing before the dead baby is thrown into biological waste trash can.
• Passively supporting the buying and selling of fetal body parts from aborted babies to include their organs, tissues, fluids and stem cells.
• Advocating aggressively for DEI and ESG policies everywhere and anywhere, even in the US military fighting units where rapes and sexual abuse are at an all-time high.
• Supporting the usage of taxpayer monies for the sex change operations of any service member who so desires, along with the expensive drug regimens that are required to finish the so-called transgendering process.
• Pushing for the legalization of recreational marijuana in every state even after states like Oregon and Colorado have shown it to be an unmitigated disaster.
• Keeping the borders wide open so that waves of illegal alien invasions can unlawfully come in as they steal billions upon billions taxpayer dollars since they are criminals who have violated US Immigration Laws. Of course, many of the alien criminal gangs are stealing from US citizens 24/7 in all 50 states via Biden-Harris enabling.
• Encouraging DHS Director Mayorkas to continue his proven treason against the Republic even after his impeachment for high crimes and violation of his oath of office.
• Approving the hundreds of billions of dollars of aid given to the warmongering and unelected Ukraine president who is hellbent on genociding every last Christian Slavic Ukrainian male.
• Approving the billions in military and financial aid given to the psychopathic mass murderer and indicted Netanyahu as well as supporting both the Gaza Genocide and Palestinian Holocaust. Ditto that for the recent Lebanese Holocaust.
• Abandoning all of the hurricane victims and even campaigning during their tremendous hardships and challenges in those 5 deliberately targeted RED states.
• Hard selling the extremely dangerous and weaponized Covid clotshots, cancershots and killshots, even for the administration of those lethal jabs for babies 6 months and older. Whether the intention was full-scale genocide or just an Extinction Level Event remains to be seen.
• Cackling and laughing, smiling and smirking no matter how much bad news the American people have had to suffer through under the deceptively tyrannical, woefully incompetent and pathologically prevaricating Biden-Harris regime.
• Lying and more lying and then lying about the lying regarding the skyrocketing inflation that’s pushing folks and families everywhere into personal and/or business bankruptcy.
• Choosing a VP running mate who not allowed BLM rioters and AntiFa terrorists to burn down sections of the state capital—Minneapolis-St. Paul—while his wife said she deliberately kept the windows of her home open so she could smell the smoke.
• Selecting a VPOTUS who is clearly a criminal pedophile in light of the bombshell testimony provided by two victimized high schoolers who have recently gone public. Harris has even expressed a very strong sympathy towards pedophilia going so far as to suggest it should not be classified a crime.
• Faking a campaign of phony joy and hyena-like laughter throughout the most catastrophic presidential term of the worst POTUS in American history is such a profound insult and egregious offense against the American People.
• Resting on her laurels as the “Border Czar” is by far Kamala’s greatest accomplishment in her mission of forever destroying the American Republic. Now that national sovereignty has been shattered and territorial integrity has been demolished, what else is left for her to do? Nevertheless…….
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