Donald Trump gave hilarious insight into his campaign team’s decision to wear a fluorescent orange vest to his rally in Wisconsin last night.
The 45th president drove to the event in a garbage truck after Joe Biden’s extraordinary blunder the day before when he called Trump supporters “trash.”
The ex-president seized the moment in classic Trumpian style and then decided to keep the orange vest on as he took the stage in Green Bay.
He told the crowd that he had wanted to take off the high-visibility clothing, but his team advised that it would be better if he wore it during his speech.
“I said, ‘No way!’ but they said it actually makes you look thinner,” Trump joked. “And they got me – I said I wanted to wear it on stage… I might never wear my blue jacket again. I can go into this.”
Donald Trump gave hilarious insight into his campaign team’s decision to put him in a fluorescent orange jacket during his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin last night
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump sits in a garbage truck while wearing a safety vest on the tarmac at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wednesday
The crowd erupted in laughter and cheers at the rally, and a clip of Trump’s comments quickly went viral.
One person tweeted: ‘We forget he’s actually the funniest politician in the western world… by some margin.’
Another said: ‘It’s amazing how people hate this man. He’s so funny and legendary! He really loves this country and its people!’
A third person wrote: ‘Anyone who hates this man is sad. He is a national treasure.”
Biden’s extraordinary blunder on Tuesday is immediately being compared to Hillary Clinton’s infamous “deplorables” label for Trump supporters in 2016.
The 81-year-old’s comment undermined Harris’ pitch to work with those who disagree with her and move past the bitter divisions that define American politics.
Answering questions while sitting in the garbage truck, Trump said Biden should “be ashamed of himself” and that Harris was guilty by association.
Trump supporters “are not trash,” the former president said.
Trump, meanwhile, distanced himself from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at his rally at Madison Square Garden last Sunday, who caused a separate political firestorm by saying Puerto Rico is “a floating island of trash.”
“I don’t know who he is… I don’t know anything about him,” Trump said, adding, “I love Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico loves me.”
Trump was joined on stage at the rally by former Packers quarterback Brett Favre.
“Thanks, Brett. What a great honor. What a great champion,” Trump said shortly after taking the stage at the Resch Center. He described Favre’s fingers as “sausages” and said, “No wonder he could throw the ball.”
Brett Favre denounced US President Joe Biden’s ‘garbage outburst’ during a Donald Trump rally
“I’m a little angry because I think he got more applause than I did, and I’m not happy,” the former president continued, joking about the ovation Favre received in a county Trump narrowly won in 2020.
Trump aligned himself with Favre in the critical battleground state with just six days until the election.
In a sign of the state’s importance, Kamala Harris simultaneously campaigned in the overwhelmingly Democratic-voting Madison, 140 miles south.
Wisconsin is the tightest of the battleground states, with Harris leading by just 0.2 percentage points in an average of the top polls compiled by Real Clear Politics.
Trump narrowed the gap significantly at the beginning of the month, when Harris’ lead was 0.7 percentage points.
Favre, who won three NFL Most Valuable Player awards and a Super Bowl for Green Bay in the 1990s, praised Trump before the former president’s arrival, telling the crowd, “Like the Packer organization, Donald Trump and his organization were a winner.’
“The United States of America won because of his leadership,” Favre said.