Earlier this week President Biden got into hot water after his comment about “floating garbage“ during a Voto-Latino group call
The drama started when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trumpʼs NY rally made an off-color joke about Puerto Rico calling it a “floating island of garbage“
Thereʼs literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think its called Puerto Rico
Responding to this Biden said something that quickly became a political fire-storm: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters“. The White-House quickly tried to fix the situation by releasing a modified transcript with an apostrophe changing the meaning
- Original quote caused Republican outrage
- White-House released modified transcript
- AP got internal emails about transcript changes
- Press secretary had to explain presidents words
Kamala Harris who was giving her closing-arguments speech during this time had to address the situation saying she “strongly disagrees with any criticism based on voting choices“
The incident gave Trump a campaign boost – he used it for a photo-op in a garbage truck and wore a hi-vis jacket at his next rally (while Ron DeSantis called it “poetic justice“ that overshadowed Harris speech)
Marco Rubio jumped in saying this shows what “every top Democrat thinks about Trump voters“‚ while media got criticized for reporting the White Houses version of events