It appears if you ask Donald Trump’s supporters what sort of assertion they’re attempting to make by carrying rubbish luggage, you get a dumpster fireplace of conflicting solutions.
On Sunday, The Good Liars — a political comedy duo consisting of Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler — printed a brief clip on X, previously Twitter, of Stiefler interviewing two Trump supporters at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Trump supporters Stiefler spoke to have been carrying black rubbish luggage adorned with American flags that boasted the phrases “Proud to be Trump’s Garbage.”
The proclamation on the rubbish luggage refers to President Joe Biden seemingly calling Trump supporters “garbage” throughout an interview with Voto Latino final week.
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Biden’s comment got here in response to comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s hate-fueled set at Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally in Manhattan days prior wherein Hinchcliffe referred to as Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and made different racist and antisemitic remarks.
The White Home later stated that Biden was calling the underlying rhetoric at Trump’s rally “garbage” reasonably than his supporters, however Trump and his marketing campaign determined to capitalize on the remark.
And though Vice President Kamala Harris is Trump’s precise adversary within the 2024 presidential race — and stated as just lately as Monday that she desires to be “a president for all” — Trump added gas to the hearth final week by exhibiting up for a photo-op in a rubbish truck.
Now Trump’s supporters have determined to apparently “own” Biden’s “garbage” label and costume in trash luggage as a signifier of their loyalty.
“The current so-called president of the United States called Trump supporters garbage,” a person decked out in a trash bag defined to Stiefler within the Good Liar’s clip.
“So we showed up as garbage!” a equally costumed lady stated proudly.
“And so, can you tell me how wearing the garbage bag proves that you are not garbage?” Stiefler requested.
In response to his query, the lady spun round excitedly to indicate the message on the again of her bag that learn, “Biden calls us garbage, Trump calls us Americans.”
“Right, but you’re dressed as Biden defined you,” Stiefler identified. “Not as Trump defined you.”
This appeared to stump the lady, who responded by nervously laughing and stammering, “Well … .”
“Well, I think … we’re taking it as a joke at this point,” the male Trump supporter lastly responded.
“Like it would make sense if you were wearing an American flag, and you said, ‘Biden calls us garbage, and Trump calls us Americans,’” Stiefler stated.
“I’m confused,” the lady admitted earlier than the clip ends.
Within the full video of Stiefler’s interviews on the Greensboro rally printed to The Good Liar’s YouTube account Sunday, different Trump supporters provided conflicting causes for donning trash liners.
“I’m proud to be trash if it’s under Mr. Trump. Absolutely,” one lady informed Stiefler.
“It’s a statement,” the lady added later about her plastic ensemble. “It doesn’t prove that I’m not trash, it doesn’t prove that I am. But it makes the statement that if you’re going to call me trash because of what I believe in, then I’m going to stand by what I believe in, no matter what you say to me.”
“What if Joe Biden would’ve been like, ‘Trump supporters — they hit their fingers with hammers,’” Stiefler requested.
“Then I would probably get a plastic hammer,” the lady responded with fun.
In an interview with one other male Trump supporter — who stated the trash bag he was carrying communicated that “We are deplorables, we’re garbage, we’re anything they want, but what we are as Americans, we’re Trump people” — Stiefler provided a equally goofy situation.
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“What if Joe Biden said, ‘You know, Trump supporters — they’ll leave a glass of milk on the counter for like, six hours until it curdles and then they’ll chug it and they’ll have tummy troubles all day.’ Would you be doing that?” Stiefler requested.
“That’s silly,” the person responded.
“It is a silly question,” Stiefler admitted.
“It is a silly question,” the person reiterated.
However Stiefler had a zinger for this man. “But, the garbage bag. Not silly?”
