Trump’s garbage truck driver explains how the viral moment came about

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

Andrew Brisson, vice president of LoadMaster, a family-owned garbage truck company based in Norway, Michigan, said he was sitting down to lunch when their secretary received a call from someone asking if the garbage truck could be stopped. in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

“I didn’t believe it at first until I picked up the phone and talked to the guy myself. And then I think after a little conversation, he recognized someone I knew in the industry, in the area. our company found a nice garbage truck, jumped into it and drove off heading to Green BayBrisson told Fox News host Martha McCallum.

The LoadMaster garbage truck was decorated with American flags, as well as Trump’s 2024 Make America Great Again campaign decal and flag.

Trump got off his plane donned a bright orange reflective garbage vest and headed to his truck before his campaign rally in Green Bay late Wednesday night.

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

The White House denied that Biden was referring to Trump supporters and instead tried to place the blame on comedian Tony Hinchcliffewho called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend.

“Earlier today, I called the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump supporters at his rally at Madison Square Garden trash—and that’s the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant. “The comments at this rally do not reflect who we are as a nation,” said a tweet Tuesday night from the Biden X account, formerly known as Twitter.

Brisson said he and Trump didn’t get to talk much because the 2024 GOP presidential candidate was taking questions from the press, but Trump shook his hand and said hello.

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“As soon as they were all done, I started the truck. I beeped and then he looked at me and said can you take me for a ride on this thing. Yes, I can do it. And you know, I released the parking brake, put it in gear and started moving forward,” Brisson recalls. “I think, as Trump said, we only moved a foot or two and then Secret service They kind of just started looking at me and waving their hands, and that was the end of the trip.”