In what White House officials are calling a slip of the tongue, President Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.”

From The Epoch Times. President Joe Biden is facing criticism for calling supporters of former President Trump “garbage” during a virtual speech on Oct. 29.

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Biden’s comments were made during a Zoom call with Voto Latino, a nonprofit aimed at registering Latinos to vote, in which Biden referenced stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks about Puerto Rico during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City earlier this week.

“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage,” Biden said.

The president then added: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” …

White House spokesman Andrew Bates posted the transcript of the remarks stating that the president said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s.” This, Bates said, “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.’”

Biden, in a post on social media platform X, said that his comment was in reference to what he called Trump’s “demonization of Latinos.” …

Biden’s remarks drew a quick rebuke from the Trump side. Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt in a statement said that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him.” …

Trump drew a parallel between Biden’s comment and those made by then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who in September 2016 said, “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”

The comments at the time sparked fierce backlash. In a 2017 memoir Clinton recounted the comment as being one of the factors that led to her election loss. …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Michael Stokes – Biden13, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79141909)