Earlier this week, President Joe Biden referred to supporters of former President Donald Trump as "garbage," a comment that the White House later walked back and said was aimed at the comedian who joked at a Trump rally that Puerto Rico was a "floating island of garbage."
According to the Associated Press, the White House also altered the original transcript of the remarks without waiting for the stenography office's sign-off.
In an interview on 105.5 WERC's "Alabama Morning News with JT," U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) said that "Biden meant what he said" and likened the comment to failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" gaffe.
"Well, Biden meant what he said, and they can spin it any way they want to," he argued. "But that's their attitude. I mean, that's just the escalation of the deplorables comment that Hillary made."
Palmer then pointed to Mark Cuban claiming Trump didn't surround himself with "strong, intelligent women."
"[I]n regard to what Cuban said, I mean, this is amazing to me, JT, that here you have a guy talking about women who are supporting Trump supporting a party that can't define what a woman is, that supports transgender men playing women's sports," he declared.
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