The White House reportedly altered the transcript of President Joe Biden’s comments where he appeared to refer to Donald Trump supporters as “garbage.”
This alteration came after concerns were raised by stenographers about the integrity of the transcript.
As most of the waking public is already well aware, Biden referred to Trump’s supporters as garbage but then tried to walk it back in a hurry.
During a rally at Madison Square Garden last weekend, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made jokes about Puerto Rico, musing that it is “literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”
Democrats failed to see the humor.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden countered. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American.”
Obama called us clingers.Hillary called us deplorables.Kamala calls us fascists.And Biden just called us garbage.
They don’t respect us & don’t want unity.
But we do.
We want to Make America Great Again.Our coalition is for ALL AMERICANS.And in 7 days, we will UNITE… pic.twitter.com/WYZePbYOyK
— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) October 30, 2024
Had To Alter The ‘Garbage’ Transcript For Biden
The video makes it quite clear who he is referring to. But the White House went into furious clean-up mode, adding an apostrophe to the word “supporters” to make it seem as if he were referring to the comedian alone.
And the transcript releases itself from the administration, and their friends in the media went completely off the rails.
Apostrophegate commenced so that it appeared Biden was only referring to a singular individual – the comedian who had insulted Puerto Rico at Trump’s rally.
However, the edit was made without an immediate review by the stenographers, leading to accusations of a breach of protocol. And the fact that they’re throwing the White House under the bus as the source of the rogue apostrophe is an indication they disagree with the move.
Keep in mind, these are official historical documents being messed with.
An email reviewed by Fox News Digital shows a supervisor alarmed by the way the transcript was handled.
“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” they wrote.
“Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”
Paging George Orwell! Mr. Orwell? Paging Mr. Orwell…
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This isn’t the first time the White House has tried to clean up Joe Biden’s “gaffes,” as the media likes to call them. The ‘garbage’ cleanup is more of a trend.
While making remarks about expanding access to mental health care to reporters last July, Biden appeared to make the mind-numbing claim that his administration cured cancer.
“We ended cancer as we know it,” the President said.
The official White House transcript changed those words by quoting him as saying, “We can end cancer as we know it.”
Biden: “I said I’d cure cancer they looked at me like, why cancer? Because we can. We ended cancer as we know it.” pic.twitter.com/RI5JqxyG3A
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 25, 2023
In another clip, Biden significantly slashed the number of people who had been killed by COVID.
“We’re still feeling the profound loss of the pandemic — as I mentioned earlier — over 100 people dead!” he shouted.
In fact, he said the number twice. And the White House transcript of those comments was, in a word, hilarious.
We’re still feeling the profound loss of the pandemic. As I mentioned, we have over 100 [1 million] people dead. That’s 100 [1 million] empty chairs around the kitchen table. Every single loss, there are so many people left behind and broken-hearted.
It’s odd how the stenographers are upset about the White House altering the transcript to clean up Biden’s ‘garbage’ comments. But they never raised concerns for other instances.
Regardless, the integrity of our historical documents must be protected.
