White House Adds Apostrophe to Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Remark to Claim He Meant Trump ‘Supporter’s’Kristina Wong 30 Oct 2024
The White House released a transcript of President Joe Biden’s remarks in which he called Trump supporters “garbage,” but added an apostrophe to “supporters” and two em-dashes to make it sound like he did not mean all Trump supporters but just one.
The transcript read:
And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.
The apostrophe was first spotted by Semafor.
Biden’s account then posted on a statement on X to reinforce the idea he meant one Trump supporter, presumably comic Tony Hincliffe, who performed at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.
The Biden account posted:
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1851436643498037614more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/30/white-house-adds-apostrophe-to-bidens-garbage-remark-to-claim-he-meant-trump-supporters/