Megan Kelly on Wednesday slammed President Biden for referring to Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” — calling the remark a sign that he is “suffering from insanity.”
In an exclusive interview with The Post, the popular podcaster said the comment was another sign that the 81-year-old Biden was losing his mental acuity.
“I think Joe Biden is suffering from an insanity that has lowered his inhibitions about saying how he really feels,” the host of SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” told The Post.
Biden sparked outrage on Tuesday after declaring: “The only garbage I see floating out there is [Donald Trump’s] supporter.”
Kelly compared the comment to other infamous Democratic attacks on Republican voters, noting Barack Obama’s 2008 “bitter-ass” jab and Hillary Clinton’s infamous 2016 reference to Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables “.
“It was just the latest in a long line of insults that Democrats have had for Republican voters,” said Kelly, who will cover the election during a live broadcast of her show on SiriusXM and YouTube beginning Tuesday at 20.00.
“They’ve called Trump a fascist, a Nazi, and a white supremacist, and now we’re down to trash. We’re all trash — anyone who voted for Donald Trump.”
Biden’s surrogates at CNN defended the president, saying the remark was due to his stutter and that his reference to “garbage” was aimed at comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who joked about Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage.” during a rally for Trump. at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Kelly scoffed at that notion, saying that even mainstream news outlets like Axios and the Associated Press didn’t buy into the claim.
“I don’t believe for a second that it was a slip [or] unintentionally,” Kelly said.
“This is a bridge too far for us. We will not make such coverage for it. We all heard what he said.”
Biden did the Trump campaign a favor by shifting the narrative away from Hinchcliffe’s joke and focusing on his comment about Trump voters, according to the former Fox News and NBC “Today” show host.
“They were saved by Joe Biden,” Kelly said.
She added that “what’s so beautiful about the controversy is the same media and Democrats who spent 48 hours telling us how deeply wrong it is to refer to any group as trash… now we have a very difficult pivot to done”.
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