White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.

  • Maple Engineer
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    2813 hours ago

    It’s so unfair of Biden to call the racists, white supremacist, christofascists, aggrieved white man babies, misogynists, xenophobes, neo fascists, antivaxers, and others who support Trump, “garbage”.

    • @InverseParallax
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      28 hours ago

      Serious, own it man, they have been irredeemable filth for centuries, they still fly the flag of racist genocidal treason.

      Call a spade a spade and inbred trash, trash.

      And with that, I’m heading out to go vote.

      • Maple Engineer
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        21 hour ago

        I’ve said that often. If you’re a racist, just own it. Loud and proud. If you’re right show your colors and let everyone know what you are.

        No? Because you know you’re a fetid shitsack?

        • @InverseParallax
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          128 minutes ago

          Because you have nothing else, all you have is the absolute certainty deep inside that you’re better than everyone else, because.

    • Flying Squid
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      312 hours ago

      I’m going to call Biden the worst possible insult I can think of because of what he said: deplorable.