Axios reporter says Biden’s communication issues prevent understanding of ‘garbage’ remark about Trump supporters

Axios national correspondent Alex Thompson on Wednesday said it’s sadly true that President Joe Biden is currently unable to communicate effectively.

Biden on Tuesday called former President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage” Tuesday in a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino, following comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Sunday Madison Square Garden rally. Thompson, on “CNN This Morning,” said Biden’s communication issues make it hard to discern his intended message.

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“Well, no one here at this table knows what Joe Biden meant unless someone here has talked to Joe Biden when he made those comments. And the sad reality is that they were indecipherable because this president is no longer able to coherently and consistently articulate a message. And that’s just the sad reality,” Thompson said. “That is why he’s no longer the nominee because at the debate, we all saw that very clearly. And it’s also why Kamala Harris does not want him on the trail.”

Corporate media’s years-long effort to downplay voters’ and Republicans’ concerns about Biden’s mental acuity took a devastating blow after the president’s June debate against Trump.

“This is a guy that just last week referred to former representative Gabby Giffords in the past tense. She’s very much alive. He’s a person that last week said that he wanted to throw Donald Trump in jail and then very quickly tried to backtrack and said he just politically meant to lock him up,” he added. “And we are in this sad scenario where clearly Joe Biden and the aides around him that want to make him feel better, want him to be able to sort of be inserted into this race that see Kamala Harris’s election, potential election, as an affirmation of his record, but that Kamala Harris does not want him to be inserted and would prefer that he basically be absent this last week of this election.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is passively resisting Biden’s increasingly assertive efforts to stump for Harris in the final days before the election, Thompson reported for Axios.

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something … I don’t know the Puerto Rican that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”

The president tried to clarify his remarks in an X post on Tuesday night after receiving backlash, asserting he was referencing Hinchcliffe’s “hateful rhetoric” rather than all Trump supporters.

The White House originally published a transcript that recorded Biden saying “supporters’,” with a plural possessive apostrophe. They later modified the transcript to read “supporters,” implying that Biden was only referring to Hinchcliffe.

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Friday that Biden’s unpopularity could historically signal a loss for Harris in November as past presidents with net negative approval ratings have not been followed by a successor from their own party. Harris currently trails Trump slightly in all seven top battleground states except Michigan, according to the RealClear Polling averages.

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