Trump supporters were high-fiving over his decision to troll Joe Biden by answering questions from a garbage truck, but his critics fueled rumors about his health after watching him ride.
One X user, Matt McDermott, a pollster and consultant, posted a video clip of Trump, 78, getting into the vehicle. He showed it twice by missing the door handle and narrowly avoiding a slip on the wet road surface.
“Trump seems to be really struggling physically,” he said. wrote in a post along with the seven-second clip. It shows Trump, followed by his campaign advisor Chris LaCivita, losing the door handle a couple of times before climbing the steps of the vehicle. It got thousands of retweets.
The post received thousands of comments, including from online users who claimed that Trump, a teetotaler, was drunk.
‘Will this lead any networks tonight?’ asked former NBA player Rex Chapman.
Former President Donald Trump hosted a photo op in which he criticized Joe Biden for his “trash” comments. His brief struggle to board a garbage truck sparked conspiracy theories about his health.
Trump spoke about the consequences of a fall, which he said would end his career
The moment came immediately after Trump said, “150 million people are not trash.” “I could tell you who the real trash is, but we won’t tell,” he added.
It was not clear where he got the 150 million figure from. About 159 million people voted in the 2020 election, but 74 million voted for Trump and 81 million voted for Joe Biden.
Other commentators used the cut to criticize Trump. “The irony is that no city or state could hire Donald Trump as a garbage man, given that he is a felon out on bail awaiting sentencing,” wrote former Mitt Romney adviser Stuart Stevens, a Trump critic.
The near miss came at a photo op in which Trump climbed atop a garbage truck wearing a safety vest and criticized Joe Biden for his “trash” comments.
Trump kept his vest on for his rally in Green Bay and talked about how difficult it was to get into the truck
The moment came during a photo op in which Trump’s team found a striking way to criticize President Joe Biden for his comment calling Trump supporters “trash.” (The White House responded and claimed that Biden had said he was referring to offensive jokes by a comedian at a Trump rally, and released a transcript saying that Biden had referred to “partisan trash” with an apostrophe.)
Regardless of whether he meant it, the comment gave Trump’s team a way to resurrect Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment and claim that Trump and Kamala Harris despise their supporters.
It came at a bad time for Harris, who gave a speech to thousands of people from the Ellipse in which she emphasized her outreach to Republicans and independents and said she would govern through compromise.
Trump’s camp seized the opportunity to take office, after coming under fire for comments at the MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden, where Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Triumph talked about the challenge of getting into the truck on his rally and made it clear that he was aware of what was at stake. ‘I said how the hell do you get on this truck? “It’s very high, it’s big,” he said, while still wearing the safety vest. The line drew laughter from his Green Bay audience.
‘This was a beauty. I told him: you didn’t have to buy it that big, right? Do you have to make it this big? He said it was a beautiful truck with a driver who “looked like Cary Grand in its prime.”
‘I said, man, this is bad, because now I’ve got all the cameras, they’re watching…’, before pointing out the ‘fake news’ in the room.
‘One small mistake with these guys and your political career is over. If I don’t go up, this is going to be very embarrassing.’