In a video addressing Latino voters, Biden called out comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks, calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” at Trump’s rally in New York City on Sunday.

The president called Puerto Ricans “good, decent, honorable people” before appearing to say, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

The White House released a transcript of Biden’s call—which reads “his supporter’s—his—his demonization of Latinos,”—with the apostrophe implying the garbage comment was aimed at Hinchcliffe.

The comments were immediately picked up by Trump’s allies, who accused Biden of describing half of the country as “garbage” and equated it to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 comments, referring to Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.”

In a statement to the press, the Trump campaign accused Biden of insulting “tens of millions of Americans,” and asked if Harris would “apologize and disavow Joe Biden's remarks.”

Biden also issued a statement on X saying he was referring to the “hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage…That's all I meant to say.”