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The Trump marketing campaign has since distanced itself from the controversial and racist jokes made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe on the former president’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally on Sunday, emphasizing of essentially the most viral insult, “This joke doesn’t replicate the views of President Trump or the marketing campaign.”

“Republicans are the social gathering with the great humorousness,” Hinchcliffe stated in his set on Sunday. “I do not know when you guys know this, however there’s actually a floating island of rubbish in the midst of the ocean proper now. I feel it is referred to as Puerto Rico?”

As Ana Navarro famous on The View Monday morning, Trump took the stage at his rally a full 4 hours after Hinchcliffe’s set, that means he and his workforce had plenty of time to arrange some type of response condemning the rhetoric in his speech. That did not occur.

The marketing campaign response got here to The Washington Put up on Sunday evening and it got here after a number of distinguished Latino celebrities condemned Hinchcliffe’s tasteless joke about Puerto Rico on their social media platforms, and after Vice President Kamala Harris’ working mate Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the jokes in a dwell Twitch stream, which you’ll see above.

Hinchcliffe stayed on model in responding to Walz and Ocasio-Cortez’ outrage over his jokes on the rally. Sharing the above put up to his personal X/Twitter account, he wrote, “These folks haven’t any humorousness.”

“Wild {that a} vice presidential candidate would take outing of his ‘busy schedule’ to investigate a joke taken out of context to make it appear racist,” the put up continued. “I really like Puerto Rico and trip there. I made enjoyable of everybody…watch the entire set. I am a comic Tim…is likely to be time to vary your tampon.”

Whereas there was a consensus round The View desk that Hinchcliffe’s racist jokes had been extremely offensive and insulting to Individuals of colour and immigrants — and due to this fact needs to be offensive to all Individuals — Sunny Hostin had maybe essentially the most passionate response.

She may very well be seen seething with emotion as she learn from an announcement she’d ready upfront to defend her island roots, and island that has been and continues to be a United States territory. Puerto Rico, regardless of the rhetoric, is America.

“This Puerto Rican has one thing to say concerning the island that I really like, the place my household is from,” Hostin stated, staring down the barrel of the digital camera. “Puerto Rico is trash? We’re Individuals, Donald Trump. Individuals.”

She referred to as out the island’s disproportionate voluntary army service, “when you have bone spurs … and we vote.” She then listed the Puerto Rican populations in the entire battleground states and reiterated, “We vote, Donald Trump.”

“And by the best way, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Dangerous Bunny, Luis Fonsi, and Marc Anthony have over 345 million followers on Instagram,” she added. “I feel you solely have 26 million, because you care a lot about measurement.”

“We do not like what was stated about Puerto Rico. And we all know learn how to take the trash out, Donald Trump. Trash that has been amassing since 2016, and that is you, Donald Trump,” she added, earlier than turning her consideration. “And at last, my fellow Puerto Ricans, trash assortment day is November 5, 2024. Do not forget it.”

Navarro, who’s a Nicaraguan-American, talked about an encounter with somebody she had after that viral rally second, sharing {that a} lady wished to speak to her about it, saying, “Right now, we’re all Puerto Ricans.”

She then went on to emphasise that Hinchcliffe did not simply goal Puerto Ricans in his set. He had an especially off-color joke about “my proud Latinos,” the place he very graphically talked about how “they love making infants,” whereas speaking about them crossing the border.

Even Trump’s rally crowd did not reply notably nicely to a lot of his materials, which included him seemingly calling out a Black man for “a factor on his head,” asking, “What the hell is that, a lamp shade?”

Hinchcliffe then performed it off with one other racist stereotype, saying they’re friends. “We had a Halloween social gathering final evening,” he quipped. “We had enjoyable, we carved watermelons collectively.”

After roughly summing up Hinchcliffe’s jokes and numerous targets amongst immigrants and folks of colour, Navarro stated, “Right now, we’re all on this collectively.” She went on to checklist earlier Trump moments and feedback that may not have moved the dial for some folks.

“If Trump asking for the loss of life penalty for 5 younger males of colour, Black and Latino — the Exonerated 5 — wasn’t sufficient for you…

“if Trump getting investigated for refusing to hire to Black folks wasn’t sufficient for you…

“If Trump selling a racist trope in opposition to the primary Black president with the birtherism bulls–t wasn’t sufficient for you…

“If Trump calling Mexicans rapists and criminals and unhealthy hombres wasn’t sufficient for you…

“If Trump calling us vermin, invaders, individuals who poison the blood of this nation wasn’t sufficient for you…

“If Trump throwing paper towels at folks in want after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico wasn’t sufficient for you…

“If Trump saying immigrants have made this nation into the trash can of the world wasn’t sufficient for you…

“…then perhaps, simply perhaps this comic, hand-picked, chosen, vetted by the Trump marketing campaign as a result of he displays what Trump has stated his total lifetime, perhaps that will probably be sufficient for you.”

She then referred to as for everybody to “vote to your heritage and your custom and your id. I would like you to vote with dignity and self-respect.”

Representing a number of the largest names in Latin music, Dangerous Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Luis Fonsi, and Marc Anthony have now all come out in assist of Vice President Harris.

In making his endorsement for Harris official, Dangerous Bunny shared a clip from her social media account the place she says in a video, “I’ll always remember what Donald Trump did and what he didn’t do when Puerto Rico wanted a caring and a reliable chief. He deserted the island, tried to dam assist after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and supplied nothing greater than paper towels and insults.”

Lopez and Martin shared the identical video to their accounts, expressing their assist for the vice chairman on this upcoming election. Lopez added the Puerto Rican flag to her share, whereas Martin wrote, “That is what they consider us. Vote for @kamalaharris.”

Luis Fonsi took to his Instagram the place he wrote, per WNBC, “Taking place this racist path ain’t it. We’re not OK with this fixed hate. It has been abundantly clear that these folks haven’t any respect for us.”

Hinchcliffe’s jokes had been even falling flat with some conservatives, with former Fox Information host and ex-Trump supporter Geraldo Rivera urging voters to assist Kamala Harris over the Republican nominee.

“‘A floating island of rubbish…?’ Referring to Puerto Rico??? ‘Poisoning the blood of our nation…?’ We now have ‘homicide in our genes….?’ Rivera posted to X/Twitter. “F–k these racists. Latino males of fine will, have delight in yourselves and your ancestors. A vote for Trump is a vote in opposition to self-respect.”