‘Daily Show’ Trashes Trump’s Halloween ‘Costume’ With Wickedly ‘Perfect’ Metaphor

“The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng joked that Donald Trump got into the Halloween spirit on Thursday after the GOP nominee put on a reflective vest and hopped into a garbage truck for a campaign stunt earlier this week.
“It’s not just kids dressing up in costumes, it’s also grown men,” quipped Chieng as he filled in as host of the show, before playing clips from Trump’s photo op in Wisconsin.
He continued, “OK, so you dressed up as a garbage man because you say Biden called your supporters ‘garbage’ and you’re saying they’re not garbage but you’re taking out the garbage, which is someone else but you won’t tell us who it is, and also no one should call anyone ‘garbage’ but you just did because you’re the garbage man. So, in other words, the perfect metaphor.”
Trump’s garbage photo op arrived after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at the GOP nominee’s Madison Square Garden campaign rally on Sunday.
President Joe Biden, in response, said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
A White House spokesperson later said the president was referring to the rhetoric shared at the event in New York City.
Trump, who missed the door handle and nearly slipped while entering the garbage truck, told reporters he would divulge “who the real garbage is, but we won’t say that.”
Chieng, later in his monologue, used the trashy stunt to mock Trump’s vow to protect women “whether the women like it or not” on Wednesday.
“So Trump’s reaching out to women as successfully as he reached out to that garbage truck door,” he quipped.
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