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Trump garbage truck driver explains how the viral moment came about

The man who drove the garbage truck Former President Trump sat on the tarmac at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport on Wednesday and talked about the viral moment and how it came about in an exclusive interview on “The Story.”

Andrew Brisson, the vice president of LoadMaster, a family-owned garbage truck company based in Norway, Michigan, said he was having lunch when their secretary received a call from someone asking if it was possible to take down a garbage truck. to Green Bay, Wis.

“I didn’t really believe it at first until I picked up the phone and spoke to the man myself. And then, after a little chat, he knew someone I knew in the industry in the area. I moved on. We found a nice garbage truck, got in it and drove to Green Bay,” Brisson told Fox News host Martha MacCallum.

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Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, talks to reporters while sitting in a garbage truck on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) (AP)

A LoadMaster garbage truck was decked out with American flags and a Trump “Make America Great Again” 2024 campaign sticker and flag.

Trump walked out of his plane Wearing a bright orange, high-visibility garbage collector’s vest, he walked toward the truck late Wednesday night ahead of his campaign rally in Green Bay.

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A Trump campaign sticker “Make America Great Again” 2024 is placed on a garbage truck. ((Andrew Brisson / LoadMaster))

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A photo of the garbage truck former President Trump used before a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. ((Andrew Brisson/LoadMaster))

The vest was an apparent jab at President Biden, who called Trump supporters “trash.”

The White House denied that Biden was referring to Trump’s supporters and instead tried to shift blame comedian Tony Hinchcliffewho at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden this weekend called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.”

“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporters at his rally at Madison Square Garden as nonsense — and that’s the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. say.

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President Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “trash,” prompting the former president to appear at a campaign rally in a garbage collector’s vest. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | Sean Gallup/Getty Images | Fox News Digital)

Brisson said he and Trump didn’t get to talk much as the 2024 Republican presidential candidate took questions from the press, but Trump shook his hand and said hello.

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“When they were all done, I started the truck. I blew the air horn and then he turned to me and said can you take me for a ride in this thing. Yeah, I can do that. And you know what, I released the parking brake, put it in drive and started moving forward,” Brisson recalls “I think, as Trump said, we only moved a few inches and then the Secret Service started glaring at me and with. to wave their hands, and that was the end of it.”