In an effort to explain the support behind Trump, Clinton went on to describe the rest of Trump supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathize with them. "To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said. Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people. Clinton acknowledges desire for changeShifting to the other half of Trump supporters, Clinton said many of those people feel like the government doesn't care about them and who just want change in any form. Almost immediately, "#BasketofDeplorables" began trending on Twitter, and conservatives and Trump supporters were predictably outraged.
Source: CNN September 10, 2016 02:13 UTC