A Brit who says she became a US citizen to vote for Donald Trump was cheered when she wore a trash bag to the polls last week to protest President Biden calling MAGA supporters “garbage.’’
MAGA Manhattanite Sophie Sassoon, a former fashion-industry worker, donned a black garbage bag cinched by a blazing-red Hermes belt and accompanied by a matching red Chanel bag and red Louboutin shoes.
“I wanted to be a chic garbage bag – almost as an experiment to show that this is what garbage looks like,” Sassoon told The Post. “People were cheering, giving me the thumbs up and honking.”
Sassoon — who posed alongside approving sanitation and construction workers during her hour-long sartorial stunt on the Upper East Side — said her critics were few and far between.
“He’s one of the best presidents we ever had,” Sassoon crowed of Trump, adding that she supports the former president’s strong positions on the border, Iran and inflation.
The British native said she emigrated to New York 19 years ago and happily dwelled in the US with a green card until she became so inspired by Trump’s rhetoric ahead of the 2016 election that she officially became a citizen so she could vote for him.
“I didn’t need to be a citizen, but I decided I had to exercise my right as a voter. There was an urgency to do it then to vote for Trump,” Sassoon said.
The woman explained that she meticulously fashioned her “trashy” conservative couture last week to make a point after Biden said in a campaign call with the Voto Latino group, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.”
Biden was trying to be clever in referencing comic Tony Hinchcliffe making a “floating island of garbage” joke about Puerto Rico during a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, but the president failed miserably.
“One of the women checking me in said, ‘Oh, the garbage comment was days ago,’” Sassoon said of a poll worker at her polling place, the Eleanor Roosevelt High School, adding that she was able to fire off her own rejoinder: “Guess what? It still stinks.”
The poll worker “couldn’t help herself – she was making fun of me,” said Sassoon, adding that the woman in her “50s or 60s” was “trivializing” Biden’s hurtful barb.
A lawyer assisting the RNC overseeing election integrity told The Post that the poll worker’s comment sounded “very inappropriate.”
“That worker clearly was expressing her own personal viewpoint onto a voter in the polling site,” the lawyer said.
Sassoon said that besides the poll worker’s comment, “I got way more love than hate.
“Passers-by thanked me for being brave,” she said.
“Only one woman screamed out, ‘You better not need an abortion.’ ”
Sassoon said she shot back, “That’s in the hands of the state, not the president.”
