President Biden said Tuesday that supporters of former President Trump are “trash,” though the president claims he was referring possessively to one particular supporter — comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

“The only trash I see floating around there are his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. And it’s un-American,” Biden said, referring to Hinchcliffe’s joke at a Trump rally in which he said Puerto Rico was a “floating island of trash.”

Biden later tried to clarify his comment.

“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as nonsense — and that’s the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden wrote on X .’His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I wanted to say. The comments made at that meeting do not reflect who we are as a nation.

The White House also released a transcript of Biden’s remarks that uses “supporters” instead of “supporters.”

“And recently a speaker at his meeting called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of trash’. Well, let me tell you something. I don’t know the Puerto Rican, that I know, or a Puerto Rico, where I come from, in my home state from Delaware, they are good, decent, honorable people. The only trash I see floating around there is that of his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is completely contrary to everything we have done , everything we did,” the transcript reads.

Vice President Harris and most other Democrats have not responded publicly to Biden’s comment. However, Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro responded to his statement.

“I’ll give you my fresh response to it,” Shapiro told Fox News Radio political analyst Josh Kraushaar. “I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any American for that matter, even if they chose to support a candidate I do not support.”

Trump said: “Please forgive Biden because he “didn’t know what he was saying.”

Harris and Trump both delivered closing arguments on Tuesday, with just a week until Election Day.

“America: I know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what divides us,” Harris said in Washington, DC. ‘That’s why I’m participating in this race. To fight for the people. Just like I’ve always done. Nearly 250 years ago, America was born when we wrested freedom from a petty tyrant.”

Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where he said Harris was waging a “campaign of destruction” and “absolute headlines.”