A CNN contributor credited President Joe Biden with calling Trump supporters “scum” because he stutters during a roundtable discussion about the election.
“As someone who had a stutter growing up, it’s pretty obvious to me that there was an apostrophe after ‘supporter,'” said film executive Franklin Leonard.
“He was referring to the rubbish thrown by the supporters, not just the supporters themselves,” the Black List founder added.
President Biden is in hot water after making the inflammatory comment during a campaign call with VotoLatino on Tuesday, in which he was discussing mature comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial joke about Puerto Rico at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
“The only scum I see running around there are his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American,” Biden said.
In an official transcript of Biden’s remarks provided by the White House, an apostrophe was inserted after the word “supporter.”
Conservative critics online attacked the White House for allegedly trying to change the meaning of Biden’s words in the transcript.
“The official White House transcript needs to be corrected immediately… Joe Biden’s words were clear that he was saying that Trump supporters are trash.” America’s first female CEO Kyle Jane wrote in X.
Conservative analyst Scott Jennings quickly hit back at Leonard’s claim.
“I do not accept your framing personally. I believe that he, Harris, the Democratic Party and most of her campaign believe that half the country is garbage,” Jennings said.
“They’ve also said that people who go to Trump rallies are Nazis,” he added, “it’s pretty obvious the contempt they hold for half the country.”
The panel quickly erupted in Jenning’s comments with many contributors talking over each other.
“You just can’t say that,” NewsNight host Abby Phillip said.
Biden faced swift backlash for his comments, which many online compared to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” that she dismissed during the 2016 campaign.
“So you have to remember Hillary [Clinton] — she said ‘deplorable’ and then she said ‘irreparable’ … ‘garbage’ I think is worse,” Trump said at his campaign rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
“He’s talking about ordinary Americans who love their country and want to dream again and support… And I hope [the Harris] campaign is ready to apologize for what Joe Biden just said,” Sen. Marco Rubio, who broke the news of Biden’s comments to Trump, said at the rally.
“We are not trash. We are patriots. We love America.” said the senator.
President Biden’s comment about ‘trash supporters’ is not the first time he has attacked Donald Trump’s voters:
- “It’s not just Trump, it’s the whole philosophy that supports — I’ll say something, it’s like semi-fascism.” – Joe Biden at a DNC fundraiser in Bethesda, Md., on Aug. 25, 2022.
- “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” – Biden at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 1, 2022.
- “We’re talking about MAGA Republican mega-officials who have been very clear about this, who say, you know, they’re pro-police, but then they’re also pro-insurgency.” – Karine Jean-Pierre at the press conference on November 2, 2022.
- “There is no doubt that today’s Republican Party is run and feared by MAGA extremists. Their extreme agenda, if realized, would fundamentally change the institutions of American Democracy as we know it. – Biden in Tempe, Ariz., on Sept. 28, 2023.
- “Those MAGA voices who know the truth about Trump and January 6th have abandoned the truth and abandoned our democracy.” – Biden in Blue Bell, Pa., on Jan. 5, 2024.
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“A mother grieving her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not trash. A truck driver who can’t afford rising oil prices is not trash. A dad who wants to buy groceries is not trash,” X posted.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden should be ashamed of themselves.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro distanced himself from Biden’s comments.
“I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any American, even if they chose to support a candidate that I did not support,” Shapiro told CNN.
President Joe Biden denied calling Trump supporters trash and insisted he was referring to remarks made by Hinchcliffe in a tweet on Tuesday.
“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by the Trump supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as trash — which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden said.
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