‘Trump Says Shocking Things Every Day!’ Joe Scarborough Laughs Off MAGA’s Biden ‘Fire Storm’ Over Garbage Comment

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough laughed off the idea that MAGA was “trying to make a firestorm” out of President Joe Biden’s comment, supposedly calling supporters of former President Donald Trump “garbage.”

During a Zoom call with Latino leaders on Tuesday, Biden stumbled over his words while reacting to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s Sunday remarks at a Trump rally in Madison Square Garden, where Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

During the call, Biden remarked: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters– his– his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.” Despite the White House’s release of a transcript, with a noted apostrophe to pin Biden’s comment as a singular directed at Hinchcliffe, and the president’s own statement, MAGA supporters pounced.

Having outlined the details on Wednesday’s Morning Joe, co-host Jonathan Lemire noted that the incident was “certainly a story on the right, who are trying to paint this to be the next basket of deplorables” – an insult leveled at Trump supporters by his then-Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Scarborough laughed in response and dismissed the outrage, pointing instead to Trump’s own rhetoric.

Of course. Donald Trump says shocking things every day on Fox News and all of his people immediately go to it and brush it off and explain it away or completely ignore it. Here, they are trying to make a fire storm out of something if you look at it.

Defending Biden, the host continued:

You see what he said immediately afterward and Donald Trump and he said ‘I was talking about the comedian and people who support that kind of talk.’ Joe Biden doesn’t believe that. I forget what state it was but it was after a hurricane, I believe, and Joe Biden went in and he went in and talked to the crowd and talked to a big Trump supporter and joked with him and put the hat on him. Again, trying to bring people together. Even saying: ‘Hey, I’ll wear your Trump cap. We are on the same team.’ That is the type of leadership.

Watch above on MSNBC.