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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:59 PM Oct 25

Harris criticizes Trump for 'belittling' Americans with 'garbage can' remark

Source: The Hill

10/25/24 3:03 PM ET


Vice President Harris criticized former President Trump on Friday for calling America a “garbage can for the world,” saying he is belittling Americans with his rhetoric.

Trump railed against immigrants coming into the U.S. during a campaign rally Thursday and called the U.S. a “dumping ground” and “garbage can,” noting it was the first time he had used the trash description but calling it “very accurate.” He repeated the line that the U.S. is a “garbage can for the world” Friday during an event in Texas.

“It’s just another example of how he really belittles our country. This is someone who is a former president of the United States, who has a bully pulpit, and this is how he uses it: to tell the rest of the world that somehow the United States of America is … trash,” Harris told reporters Friday.

“The president of the United States should be someone who elevates discourse and talks about the best of who we are. And invests in the best of who we are,” she said. “Not someone like Donald Trump who is constantly demeaning and belittling who the American people are. America deserves better.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4953926-harris-criticizes-trump-garbage-can/

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Harris criticizes Trump for 'belittling' Americans with 'garbage can' remark (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 25 OP
I guess Reagan's "shining city on a hill" doesn't work any more? Ocelot II Oct 25 #1
His immigrant wives that awful to him? Poor wittle rich boy IA8IT Oct 25 #2
If the US is trash that means you are calling yourself trash, Donnie Dump. Clouds Passing Oct 25 #3
Remember:::: whatever bad Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americans. keithbvadu2 Oct 25 #4
Well maybe his mother was the trash that needed canned Blue Full Moon Oct 25 #5
K&R ck4829 Oct 28 #6

keithbvadu2

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4. Remember:::: whatever bad Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americans.
Fri Oct 25, 2024, 05:36 PM
Oct 25

Remember:::: whatever bad Donald says about "illegals"/undoc immigrants, he would rather hire them than pay Americans.

He only quit hiring them when it became politically inconvenient.

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