“I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe told the crowd (you could literally hear the maga gasp), seguing to a racist trope about Black people “carving watermelon” for Halloween.
The mainstream media calls Tony Hinchcliffe a comedian who later claimed his comments were taken out of context. To be clear, Hinchcliffe is a racist, a white supremacist, who had no business addressing the public on behalf of any political candidate.
This morning America awakens to news that the Trump Campaign is trying to "distance" it from Hinchcliffe's racist speech. Notably, Trump isn't disavowing or condemning Hinchcliffe.
"A spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is attempting to distance the candidate from a racist joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who spoke before the former president at his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night. “I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe told the crowd.
In response to the massive backlash to Hinchcliffe’s comments, which also included a racist trope about Black people “carving watermelon” for Halloween, Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told CNN political reporter Kate Sullivan, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
The Trump campaign now says the comment by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage” doesn’t reflect Trump’s views.
— Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) October 28, 2024
“This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Trump senior adviser Danielle Alvarez says.
"Like the rest of the speakers who took the stage before Trump, Hinchcliffe’s remarks were pre-loaded into a teleprompter, indicating that they would likely have been vetted by the campaign in advance," notes The Daily Beast
Gov. Walz and @AOC react to this clip: “When you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico ‘floating garbage,’ know that that's what they think about you. It's what they think about anyone who makes less money than them… I want every Puerto Rican in Philadelphia and Reading and across the country to see this clip”
Gov. Walz and @AOC react to this clip: “When you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico ‘floating garbage,’ know that that's what they think about you. It's what they think about anyone who makes less money than them… I want every Puerto Rican in Philadelphia and Reading and… https://t.co/L5GdSvLJWT pic.twitter.com/y9DQTABM0v
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 27, 2024
Make no mistake, Hinchcliffe's microphone wasn't cut off, he remained on stage unhindered. Trump just called America a garbage dump. Hinchcliffe just took that a step further. This is how fascists work. They have someone else say the silent part first and take the fall for it. Once that disgusting part is normalized Trump if elected will take it further.
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