"Garbage" is giving both presidential campaigns a headache. Former President Donald Trump since Sunday has faced backlash over a prominent supporter joking that Puerto Rico was a "floating island of garbage." But President Joe Biden, attempting to criticize Trump for cultivating this kind of rhetoric among his supporters in a call with Latino allies on Tuesday, may have made a stumble of his own.
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’” Biden said in the video recording, referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden. Then, attempting to suggest that Puerto Ricans are "good, decent, honorable people," he appeared to blunder into the controversial comments: "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American."
