On Thursday, ABC News program The View spent much of their first segment kvetching about the Trump campaign continuing to make President Biden’s candid belief that Trump supporters were “garbage” an issue in the final days of the election. They ultimately blamed former President Trump for what Biden said and decried “white men” and “the blue-collar working man” for “falling for this.”
After playing some soundbites of Trump in a garbage truck and one stage in a Hi-Viz vest, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin blamed him for the word “garbage” ever being injected into the election at all:
GOLDBERG: Let's just start with the fact that he's been -- he brought up America being a garbage can. I assume that meant that those of us who live in America were garbage. And I guess everybody's freaked out now because we're all in the can together. Some people thought they were out of the can. But when he says the country is a can and says it over -- well, I'll let you do it.
HOSTIN: Well, yeah, I was saying, you know, this morning, he owns that language. He owns that rhetoric because he is the one that introduced it. He's the one that at his rally had a comedian talking about Puerto Rico being an island of garbage.
“So, he owns it. I mean, stop trying to sort of co-opt the argument that he is now the victim. It's gaslighting to the tenth degree. It’s just – I hope that Americans recognize what's happening,” Hostin chided.
Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin chimed in – falsely calling herself a “political strategist” – to suggest Trump turning Biden’s attack on his supporters into empowerment was somehow “political malpractice.”
She went on to claim that Biden’s “garbage” smear was his way of giving Trump “a tiny bit of a life line to leave this [Madison Square Garden] news cycle behind him.”
“The geniuses of the Trump campaign are, like, ‘let's remind everyone about your worse news cycle by putting you in a garbage can and remind everyone what you said about America and what you said about Puerto Ricans. This is the dumbest campaign thing I've ever seen!” she proclaimed.
That attempt to downplay Trump in the garbage truck was followed up by pretend moderate Sara Haines, who decried “the blue-collar working man [who] is the one falling for this. Mainly white men.”
“I think it's really sad that he's appealing to the working man, like, the blue-collar worker,” she whined. “With the garbage truck, I know that was about garbage but it was also he wants to look like he can rub elbows at a McDonald's and he does all these things. The people that will be hurt the most.”
Despite the fact that Trump was proposing no tax on tips and no tax on overtime pay, Haines proclaimed he was against blue-collar workers specifically. “The reason Elon Musk is with him, is someone like Elon Musk benefits from him. It is the working people that are falling for this,” she huffed.
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ABC’s The View
October 31, 2024
11:07:25 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Let's just start with the fact that he's been -- he brought up America being a garbage can. I assume that meant that those of us who live in America were garbage. And I guess everybody's freaked out now because we're all in the can together. Some people thought they were out of the can. But when he says the country is a can and says it over -- well, I'll let you do it.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, yeah, I was saying, you know, this morning, he owns that language. He owns that rhetoric because he is the one that introduced it. He's the one that at his rally had a comedian talking about Puerto Rico being an island of garbage.
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HOSTIN: So, he owns it. I mean, stop trying to sort of co-opt the argument that he is now the victim. It's gaslighting to the tenth degree. It’s just – I hope that Americans recognize what's happening.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I've got to say. I got an absolute laugh out of this. I thought it was hysterical because it is absolute political malpractice.
So, as a political strategist, Trump hosts this rally where his campaign platforms this guy who calls Puerto Rico garbage. And of course, celebrities come out. J. Lo, everyone is coming to denounce it. Republicans are denouncing it because they know they ticked off an important voting bloc. And so, this is a huge news cycle. Trump even goes on Sean Hannity to try to walk it back.
And then Joe Biden actually offers him a tiny bit of a life line to leave this news cycle behind him by slipping up and saying supporters are garbage. He did walk it back. And then no. The geniuses of the Trump campaign are, like, ‘let's remind everyone about your worse news cycle by putting you in a garbage can and remind everyone what you said about America and what you said about Puerto Ricans. This is the dumbest campaign thing I've ever seen!
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SARA HAINES: I think it's really sad that he's appealing to the working man, like, the blue-collar worker. With the garbage truck, I know that was about garbage but it was also he wants to look like he can rub elbows at a McDonald's and he does all these things. The people that will be hurt the most.
While he was president he cut -- he reduced by millions the number of workers – and this is most – blue-collar workers who would become eligible for overtime pay. In 2025, it goes even further. And he wants to take away what 40 hours – after 40 hours would normally earn you time and a half. He wants to take that away from workers.
The reason Elon Musk is with him, is someone like Elon Musk benefits from him. It is the working people that are falling for this – not all, but the blue-collar working man is the one falling for this. Mainly white men.
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