Biden’s ‘garbage’ remark on Trump supporters could be another Clinton ‘deplorables’ moment

Former Acting US Attorney-General Matthew Whitaker has discussed US President Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment and whether or not his remarks are reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment in 2016.

President Biden was reportedly criticising a comedian from Mr Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally who referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage”.

“I think the problem is that they spent, you know, an entire day, an entire news cycle trying to convince us that this comic that nobody’s ever heard of, quite frankly, a very fringe comic in the United States was somehow speaking for the Trump campaign,” Mr Whitaker told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“The President of the United States goes and says this. It’s extraordinary, but you know, Joe Biden is, I don’t think, trying to help Kamala Harris win the White House, at least.”