WASHINGTON D.C. – Proving his mastery of the news cycle, President Donald Trump made headlines again when he revisited one of the signature moments of his 2024 election closing pitch and appeared on the streets of the nation’s capitol as a garbage collector. The president, who recently authorized the National Guard to do whatever it took to clean up Washington, D.C., citing a wave of crime, approved of the Guard’s collecting rubbish and storing it in safe locations. However, when he saw some members of the Guard going off-script, Trump donned his orange vest, commandeered a truck, and demonstrated the proper way to dispose of trash (wearing designer plastic gloves, of course). 

“If there’s one thing I know a lot about, it’s trash,” the president said. “I’ve seen a lot of it in my time in business. I’ve fired a lot of trash, to be fair, from my companies, on my TV show, and from the White House. There’s a right way to dispose of trash and a rubbish way. I want our troops to do things the right way.” 

Trump’s latest appearance echoed one he made in Green Bay, Wis., in October 2024, in an effort to refute former President Joe Biden’s characterization of Trump supporters as garbage. Trump wore an orange vest while sitting in the passenger seat of a garbage truck and then was still wearing the orange vest at a later political rally.

Vice-president J.D. Vance applauded Trump’s D.C. efforts. “That is the way that a true commander-in-chief acts,” Vance said. “If you want something done right, you show them how to do it yourself. I’m happy to follow the president’s lead any day of the week.”