A garbage truck driver who Donald Trump said was the spitting image of Cary Grant has spoken about his stunned response when he got the call to take the former president to an emergency photo op.
“I didn’t really believe it at first until I picked up the phone and talked to the guy,” said Andrew Brisson, vice president of family-owned trucking company LoadMaster, based in Detroit.
That call set in motion an extraordinary series of events that caused Trump to turn the tables on a comedian’s “offensive” trash comment about Puerto Rico, and hold perhaps the first news conference by a presidential candidate from inside a pickup truck. trash.
Soon, the team of Trump supporters would place red, white and blue Trump MAGA stickers on the side of the shiny truck, which Brisson selected from his fleet.
Andrew Brisson briefly drove Donald Trump for his photo op, where the former president criticized “trash” comments and talked about what it was like to be inside the taxi.
‘And then, I guess after a little conversation, he met someone I knew within the industry in the area. “I went to our lot, found a nice garbage truck, got in it and started heading to Green Bay,” he said. he told Fox News.
He said it was “a spur of the moment” but that he had an idea he would be “handling Trump.”
In an election with razor-thin margins, even small PR victories can make a difference, and Trump’s stunt allowed his team to change the subject from anger over a comedian’s comments about Puerto Rico at his Madison Square rally. Garden.
Trump’s speech at a rally that day wearing a life jacket was broadcast across the country. (The national scandal moved from the garbage door on Friday to Trump’s dark comments about his rival Liz Cheney facing nine rifles pointed in her face.)
When the moment finally came, Trump briefly failed to grab the vehicle’s door handle and may have slipped, at one point his rivals mocked him and questioned his health.
But he managed to get in and ended up answering questions from journalists.
But Trump wasn’t ready to call it a day.
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Trump compared the driver to Cary Grant
‘Once everyone was done, I started the truck. I honked and then he looked at me and said, can you take me for a ride in this thing? Yes, I can do that. And you know, I released the parking brake, put it in gear and started moving forward,” Brisson said. “I think, like Trump said, we only moved a foot or two and then the Secret Service started looking at me and waving their hands and That was the end of the trip.”
Trump spoke at length about the moment at his campaign rally that night, where he also talked about how difficult it was to get into the truck.
He compared Brisson to the late Hollywood actor Cary Grant. It was a comparison that the bearded Brisson missed, he admitted. “No, I had no idea,” he said.