Trump Nearly Face-Plants On A Garbage Truck During A Trashy Photo-Op
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The former president nearly slipped as he tried to climb into the vehicle.
Donald Trump’s photo-op with a garbage truck on Wednesday almost got off to a disastrous start as the former president appeared to miss the door handle and almost slipped on the wet ground.
Trump also briefly grabbed his right thigh, then ultimately made it into the truck with some visible effort.
The moment takes place at about 15 seconds into the C-SPAN coverage of the photo-op:
Trump later in the evening said that the truck was too big.
“I said how the hell do you get into this truck? It’s way up high,” he said at a rally in Wisconsin. “I said they didn’t have to buy it that big, right? You have to get it that big?”
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