Donald Trump boards garbage truck to draw attention to Biden remark

Donald Trump walked down the steps of the Boeing 757 that bears his name, walked across a rain-soaked tarmac and, after twice missing the handle, climbed into the passenger seat of a white garbage truck that also carried his name.

The former president known for his showmanship wanted to draw attention to a remark made a day earlier by his successor, Democratic President Joe Biden, that suggested that Trump's supporters were garbage. Trump has used the remark as a cudgel against his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump said, wearing an orange and yellow safety vest over his white dress shirt and red tie. "This is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”

Facing pushback of their own for a comment by a comedian at a weekend Trump rally that disparaged Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” Trump and other Republicans seized on a comment by Biden on a late Wednesday call in which he said, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”