Reports emerged that the White House nixed the remaining campaign calls on President Joe Biden’s public schedule after he made a controversial remark labeling Trump voters as “garbage.”
According to Fox News, these calls weren’t officially linked to the Harris campaign, and organizations set to hear from Biden didn’t reveal if the calls took place post-removal.
Biden’s Presidential calendar shows no scheduled events with the Harris campaign before Election Day.
This decision followed Biden’s fiery comment during a call with a Latino voter group, where he criticized Trump supporters. Biden claimed, “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community.”
In reference to Trump’s rally in New York City, Biden mentioned an offensive comment made about Puerto Rico and added, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.” He denounced Trump’s treatment of Latinos as “un-American.”
Bill Maher warns that Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment is a ‘bigger gaffe than people think’ https://t.co/Je27UywEq2 pic.twitter.com/kgVPvy3hKR
— New York Post (@nypost) November 2, 2024
Comedian Bill Maher was the latest in a long list to blast Biden for calling Trump supporters “garbage,” likening him to Yankees’ Aaron Judge missing a crucial catch during the World Series.
“I think it’s a bigger gaffe than people think,” Maher said during his HBO show on Friday night.
“It’s so funny, Joe Biden, his whole career, he was like Mr. Gaffe, and then here at the very end — he’s like Aaron Judge in Game 6,” he noted. “He just f***ing muffed the fly ball and at the end of the thing and blew the whole [game].”
Maher said Biden’s blunder was worse than Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment in 2016, stressing how it “epitomizes” Democrats’ perceived disdain for Trump backers.
He also snapped at the president over his inability to “shut the f*** up,” then joked that “In fairness, he was on a video call, and he thought he was just yelling at the TV.”
Biden: MAGA Republicans “are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass.”pic.twitter.com/sflWWrAPMc
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 2, 2024
Biden’s last campaign appearance in Pennsylvania might have sealed his fate. There, he referred to MAGA Republicans as “the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the a**.”
Obama’s ex-speechwriter Jon Favreau advised Biden to concentrate on his duties as president, noting on CNN that it would benefit both the Harris campaign and Biden’s legacy.
“I would look at the numbers, I would look at the race and say, I’m going to focus on being president over the next couple of days and that’s probably the best thing he can do not just for the Harris campaign, but himself and his legacy too,” Favreau remarked on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
