On Tuesday, President Biden seemed to call people who support Donald Trump garbage. During a video conference with Latino supporters, Biden said, “Just the other day, a speaker at [Trump’s Madison Square Garden] rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ … The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

While there is some dispute about what Biden really meant, former Trump immediately put the comment to good use. Campaigning in Wisconsin, he rode in a garbage truck to his rally, wearing the kind of safety vest that sanitation workers wear when they are on the job.

He started that rally by saying, “I have to begin by saying 250 million Americans are not garbage.” He continued: “Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, crooked Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them garbage.”

At a rally in Rocky Mount, N.C., he told the audience that “Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them 'garbage,' and they mean it, even though, without question, my supporters are far higher quality than crooked Joe, lyin’ Kamala.”

With no hint of irony or self-knowledge he proclaimed, “My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans. You just can’t.”

Trump’s cronies jumped on the bandwagon. "Garbage?" Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said. "What they say about us actually says more about them. What are we going to do about it? Get to WORK. Elect @realDonaldTrump. Elect Republicans. Call our friends and neighbors to VOTE!"

And, not be outdone, vice presidential candidate JD Vance wrote, "A mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can't afford........

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