Republicans were shocked — shocked — that President Joe Biden might have called former President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage,” and the Lincoln Project handed them their winnings.

The Lincoln Project played out a classic “Casablanca” scene Wednesday by trolling Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) with a video of Trump insulting supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris after he complained about the comment.

“One of Kamala Harris’s biggest donors is doubling down on calling half the country ‘garbage,'” Vance wrote on X. “Will they continue to insult half of the country for the sin of thinking Kamala Harris isn’t good at her job?”

The Lincoln Project replied with a video and a quote.

“It’s the people that surround her, they’re scum and they want to take down our country,” Trump says in the video. “They are absolute garbage.”

Rick Wilson, a Lincoln Project co-founder, also shared the video with a jab at the media.

“Attention, national media,” he wrote. “I was told this phrase is a globe-shattering transgression. I await your breathless tweets.”

Tensions are running high in the last week of a contentious presidential election that has seen the Trump team cast immigrants as pet-eating murderers with bad genes allowed to run rampant by “border czar” Harris. Harris supporters have cast Trump as an authoritarian threat to Democracy who lies about immigrants eating pets, immigrants being murderers and Harris’ responsibilities as border czar.

Vance’s take on campaign scandals that include a Trump rally comedian calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” has been to call out liberals for being too sensitive.

“Stop getting so offended at every little thing,” Vance said of the comedian’s set, which also included a watermelon joke targeting a Black man and a lurid comment about Latinos that Raw Story cannot publish.

Yet Biden’s comment — which the White House later transcribed as “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American” — apparently shocked Trump’s running mate.

“Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Vance wrote.

Replied the Lincoln Project, “It’s the people that surround her, they’re scum and they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.”

Watch the video below or click here.

https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1851704355440689523