Trump calls on supporters to ‘forgive’ Biden in show of unity after president calls supporters ‘garbage’

President Trump called on a crowd of supporters to “forgive” President Biden after he compared the former president’s supporters to trash.

“Wow. That’s terrible,” Trump said, invoking Hillary Clinton’s infamous “deplorable” remarks in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. “And then she said irredeemable. It didn’t work out.”

The Republican candidate urged his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“Litter, I think, is worse,” he said. “But he doesn’t know that. Please forgive him.”

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Trump said Biden “really doesn’t know” what he said.

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Forgive him for he knew not what he said…

– Former President Donald Trump

“Forgive him for not knowing what he said,” Trump said. “These people are horrible, horrible, horrible to say things like that. But he really doesn’t know. He honestly doesn’t. And I’m convinced he likes me more than he likes Kamala. But it’s a terrible thing.”

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Trump’s call for unity — and forgiveness — came after the president called Trump supporters trash during a get-out-the-vote call for Voto Latino.

“The only trash I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “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.”

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Biden’s comments came after Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something,” Biden said. “I don’t know the Puerto Rico that I know … or the Puerto Rico where I am – in my home state of Delaware – they are good, decent, honorable people.”

Biden’s remarks came just as Vice President Kamala Harris was to take the stage at a large demonstration in Washington, DC.

“Earlier today, I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporters at his rally in Madison Square Garden as trash — which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden wrote on X later that evening after his comments retracted. quick backlash.

“His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say,” he said. “The comments at that meeting do not reflect who we are as a nation.”

White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that President Biden “referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage.'”

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“The president was referring to a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he compared Puerto Rico to an island of floating ‘garbage’ in the middle of the ocean,” Bates said.

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