Trump touts support of 'hard working' Americans after Biden 'garbage' comment

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening touted the support of a broad coalition of "hard working" Americans in the wake of President Joe Biden's "garbage" comment.

The president on Tuesday appeared to label Trump's supporters as "garbage" in a call but later insisted he was referring to remarks from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who roasted Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" at Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden.

"What we have built is the biggest, broadest, most incredible coalition and the greatest political movement in the history of our country," Trump said at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after arriving in a garbage truck and sporting an orange sanitation worker vest.

"It's made up of hard working men and women who make this country run, who really built this country originally, we have brought together veterans and union members, soldiers and steel workers, farmers and auto workers and patriotic moms and dads of every race, religion, color and creed," he added. "We're welcoming historic numbers of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Arab Americans. And we're uniting Christians and Jews, Catholics and evangelicals, Muslims and Mormons and everyone who simply wants to do one thing, make America great again."

"Call all of us and them, even them garbage. I call you the heart and soul of America. You are the heart and soul," Trump went on. "You built our country. You know you built our country. You built it far more than they built it."

"I can tell you that you built it, and by the way, I want to thank all of our incredible sanitation workers all across America, because they work hard," he continued. "They really do work hard, and they do an incredible job, and they don't get the credit they deserve, like our police, like our firefighters, like so many others, they don't get the credit, but everybody knows we love them."