President Trump called on a crowd of supporters to “forgive” President Biden after he compared the former president’s supporters to trash.

“Wow. This is terrible,” Trump said, invoking Hillary Clinton is infamous “deplorable” remarks in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. “And then she said irremediable. It didn’t work.”

The Republican candidate called on his supporters to forgive him during a packed rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

“I think trash is worse,” he said. “But he doesn’t know that. You have to forgive him, please.”

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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, speaks during a campaign rally at the PPL Center October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Asset said that Biden “really don’t know” what he said.

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Please forgive him for not knowing what he said…

— Former President Donald Trump

“Please forgive him for not knowing what he said,” Trump said. “These people are terrible, terrible, terrible for saying such a thing. But he really doesn’t know that. Honestly, he doesn’t know that. And I’m convinced he loves me more than Kamala. But it’s a terrible thing.”

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Trump’s call for unity — and forgiveness — came after the president called Trump supporters trash during a call to vote for Voto Latino.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “His, his demonization of Latinos is unacceptable and un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”

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Biden’s comments came after Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

“And the other day a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something,” Biden said. “I don’t know the Puerto Ricans I know… or Puerto Rico where I live – in my home state of Delaware – they are good, decent, honorable people.”

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden’s remarks came just as Vice President Kamala Harris was about to take the stage for a major rally in Washington, DC.

“Earlier today, I called the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico uttered by Trump supporters at his Madison Square Garden rally trash — that’s the only word I can think of to describe it ” Biden posted on X later that evening after his comments gained attention. rapid reaction.

“His demonization of Latinos is unacceptable. That’s all I wanted to say,” he said. “The comments at this rally do not reflect who we are as a nation.”

President Joe Biden speaks with reporters after voting early for the 2024 general election, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, at a polling place in New Castle, Delaware. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich that President Biden “referenced the hateful rhetoric of Madison Square Garden gathering like a “trash can”.

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“The president was referring to a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he compared Puerto Rico to an island of floating ‘trash’ in the middle of the ocean,” Bates said.

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