The man who drove former President Trump’s garbage truck was sitting on the tarmac at Green Bay’s Austin Straubel International Airport on Wednesday spoke about the viral moment and how it came about in an exclusive interview on The Story.
Andrew Bryson, vice president of LoadMaster, a family-owned garbage truck company based in Norway, Michigan, said he was sitting down to lunch when the company secretary received a phone call from someone asking if it was possible to drop off a garbage truck. To Green Bay, Wisconsin.
“I didn’t really believe it at first until I picked up the phone and talked to the guy myself. And then, I think after a short conversation, he knew someone I knew in the industry in the area. I went to the place and found a garbage truck,” Bryson told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. “It looked nice and I jumped in and started heading to Green Bay.”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin (AP Photo/Julia DeMarie Nickinson) (AP)
The LoadMaster garbage truck is decorated with American flags, a poster and a 2024 Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign flag.
Trump exited his plane wearing a bright orange, high-visibility garbage disposal vest and headed toward the truck before his campaign rally in Green Bay late Wednesday night.
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Trump’s 2024 “Make America Great Again” campaign sticker is placed on a garbage truck. ((Andrew Bryson/Loadmaster))
A photo of the garbage truck used by former President Trump before a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin ((Andrew Bryson/Loadmaster))
The jacket was a clear jab at President Biden, who called Trump supporters “trash.”
The White House denied that Biden was referring to Trump supporters and instead tried to shift the blame to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who over the weekend referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating trash island” at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden.
“Earlier today, I referred to the hate speech about Puerto Rico by Trump supporters at his rally in Madison Square Garden as garbage – which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant,” comments in This rally does not reflect who we are as a nation,” read a tweet Tuesday evening from the Biden X, formerly Twitter, account.
President Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “trash,” prompting the former president to show up at a campaign rally wearing a trash workers’ jacket. (Chip Somodevila/Getty Images | Sean Gallup/Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
Bryson said he and Trump didn’t talk much because the 2024 Republican presidential nominee was taking questions from the press, but Trump shook his hand and said hello.
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“Once it was all done, I started the truck. I honked the air horn and then he looked at me and said can you take me for a spin with this thing? Yes, I can do that. And you know, I released the parking brake, put it in drive and started “Moving forward.” “I think, as Trump said, we only moved a foot or two and then the Secret Service started staring at me and waving their hands and that was the end of the ride.”
Ashley Carnahan is a staff writer for Fox News Digital.
