Speaking at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Hall of Fame former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre praised him, former President Donald Trump, wearing an orange vest that garbage workers use, had the crowd roaring with laughter as he hilariously recounted the story of how he came to wear the vest.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden referred to Trump supporters as “garbage,” saying, “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ … The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
“So this outfit, you know, is when he called us all ‘garbage,’” Trump began. “What a stupid word.” Trump then referred to Hillary Clinton’s infamous characterization of Trump supporters in 2016, continuing, “That blows ‘deplorable’ away, don’t you think? Of course, I thought ‘irredeemable,’ when she said “deplorable’ or ‘irredeemable,’ I thought ‘irredeemable’ was actually worse, but ‘deplorable’ seemed to catch up. But this ‘garbage’ stuff blows it away.”
“So I’m in this beautiful plane; I’m enjoying myself,” he recalled. “I have a wonderful suit on — (applause) — and one of my people came in, he says, ‘Sir, you know the word garbage is the hottest thing right now — (laughter) —out there. The hottest thing there. Sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck?’” (huge laughter/applause).
“Now we’re about 30 minutes from landing, we had to do this pretty quick,” Trump continued. “I said —It’s sorta cool though, isn’t it, because you know — and I said, ‘Y’know, I think that’s okay, but y’know, I don’t feel comfortable wearing a suit’ (laughter) and they pulled up this garbage truck; I don’t know how the hell they did it so fast.”
“I have very capable people,” Trump said as the audience laughed again. “They put a big sign on the truck, did you see it? I think they showed it. (applause/laughter) and then they said, ‘Sir, we have a vest.’ I said, ‘Wow, should I leave my suit on and put it over the vest?’ But that doesn’t look very good, right? That doesn’t look good.”
“So I said, ‘All right, look, let me take it off,’” he continued. “And I actually said, ‘How the hell do you get into this truck? It’s way up high; it’s a big one.’ (laughter). This was a beauty. I said, ‘You didn’t have to buy it that big, right? You have to get it that big?’ They brought this brand-new gorgeous truck, wonderful driver – he looked like Cary Grant in his prime, you know who that is? (laughter). This beautiful driver and he drove that big thing up. And I said, ‘Man, this is bad, ’cause now I have all the cameras, they’re all watching.’ Look —(Trump pointed to the back of the crowd) — look at all the fake news (booing), they were most of them — (sustained booing). Now most of them, many of them were there and I’m saying, ‘Oh, boy, you know one little mistake with these guys and your political career is over.’ So I said, ‘Man, if I don’t get up there this is going to be embarrassing.’ (laughter) These stupid people, they’ll say, ‘He’s cognitively and physically impaired!’ (huge laughter) and I can’t do that when I’m alongside this great athlete. I got to get up to that.”
“So, look, so the first stair’s like up here (Trump gestured waist-high). I’m saying, s***! (the crowd erupted with laughter). So I had the adrenaline going and I made it. (huge applause). I made it. And then I gave a little news conference from the front of the — y’know, they ask their wiseguy questions and everything, and then we drove about two feet. (huge laughter) I got out, got in the car, and then I got in the car and I’m driving over here and I have this still on, and I come into the arena and I say, ‘Where’s my jacket? I want to get outta this thing.’ And they said, it would be unbelievable if you could wear it on stage. (huge laughter and applause). And I said, ‘No way, I got 25,000 people standing outside, I got all these people here. There’s no way I’m wearing it on stage.’ They said, ‘Oh, okay, sir.’ I said, ‘Get me my jacket.’”
(They said) “But if you did, you know, it actually makes you look thinner.” (huge laughter). Trump continued, “And they got me, I said, ‘I want to wear it on stage.’ When they said I look thinner, I said, ‘In that case, I’ll wear it on stage.’ I may never wear a blue jacket again. (laughter). I may go in this. They said that, that was the word, that was the key. ‘Sir, you look thinner.’”
“So, anyway, so we had a little fun about a very serious subject,” he said. “We had a little fun about a time where our country is not having a lot of fun because we’re not doing well as a country — but we’re going to be doing well very shortly, I promise you,” he concluded.
President Trump tells the story of how the garbage truck and the orange vest came to be.
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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 30, 2024
