Former President Donald Trump showed up in a garbage truck to a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, held a short press conference with reporters from inside the garbage truck, and wore an orange garbage truck worker’s vest during his speech on Wednesday night.
Videos and pictures shared on X, formerly Twitter, show Trump addressing reporters from the “Make America Great Again” garbage truck. “How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump asked. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
On Tuesday, Biden described Trump supporters as “garbage.” Addressing Biden’s comments, Trump told reporters, “For Joe Biden to make that statement, it’s really a disgrace.”
Addressing his supporters at the Wisconsin rally while wearing an orange garbage truck worker’s vest, Trump explained how his campaign team decided to troll Biden for calling his supporters “garbage.” “So this outfit, you know, is when he called us all ‘garbage,'” Trump said. “What a stupid word.”
Trump told the crowd, “So I’m in this beautiful plane; I’m enjoying myself. I have a wonderful suit on, and one of my people came in, he says, ‘Sir, you know the word garbage is the hottest thing right now out there. The hottest thing out there. Sir, would you like to drive a garbage truck?'”
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After telling the crowd how he decided to exchange his suit coat for a garbage worker’s vest, the former president detailed his experience riding in the garbage truck. Trump humorously explained that the first step to get into the truck was very high up and that he was worried about falling in front of the “fake news.”
“So, look, so the first stair’s like up here. I’m saying, ‘Sh-t!’ So I had the adrenaline going, and I made it. I made it. And then I gave a little news conference from the front of the — y’know, they ask their wiseguy questions and everything, and then we drove about two feet. I got out, got in the car, and then I got in the car, and I’m driving over here, and I have this still on, and I come into the arena, and I say, ‘Where’s my jacket? I want to get outta this thing.’ And they said, ‘It would be unbelievable if you could wear it on stage.'”
Trump said he initially resisted the idea of wearing the orange vest on stage until his staff told him that it made him look thinner.
“And they got me, I said, ‘I want to wear it on stage,'” Trump said. “When they said I look thinner, I said, ‘In that case, I’ll wear it on stage.’ I may never wear a blue jacket again.”
Trump’s story of riding in the garbage truck and deciding to wear the orange vest during his rally was met with roaring laughter from the Wisconsin crowd.
