The Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, continued to insist on Tuesday night time that he doesn’t know the comic who made racist and offensive jokes at his New York rally on Sunday, and that the comedian “probably” shouldn’t have been there.
In an interview with Fox Information’s Sean Hannity, Trump was requested about racist and offensive jokes made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe on the Trump rally at Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday. Hinchcliffe referred to as Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and made disparaging remarks about its folks.
“I have no idea who he is,” Trump instructed Hannity. “Somebody said there was a comedian that jokes about Puerto Rico or something and I have no idea who he is. Never saw him, never heard of him, and don’t want to hear of him.”
Trump stated: “They put a comedian in, which everybody does.”
“You throw comedians in, you don’t vet them and go crazy. It’s nobody’s fault. But somebody said some bad things,” he added.
The previous president then stated that his critics have “taken somebody that has nothing to do with the party, has nothing to do with us, who said something, and they try and make a big deal”.
“I can’t imagine that it’s a big deal,” Trump added.
Later within the interview, Hannity requested Trump whether or not he wished Hinchcliffe hadn’t been on the rally, to which the previous president replied: “Yeah, I don’t know if it’s a big deal or not, but I don’t want anybody making nasty jokes or stupid jokes, and probably he shouldn’t have been there, yeah.”
The feedback made by Hinchcliffe on Sunday night time shortly brought about anger, uproar and outrage amongst Puerto Ricans and different voters nationwide.
On-line, many celebrities and politicians shortly criticized the remarks. The president of the Republican get together’s department in Puerto Rico additionally demanded that Trump concern an apology for the racist jokes, and on Tuesday, Puerto Rico’s largest newspaper, El Nuevo Día, endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
On Tuesday night, the actor Aubrey Plaza additionally took a second on the Wall Road Journal Innovator Awards to name out the feedback.
“I just wanted to very quickly respond to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, where most of my family is from,” Plaza stated on stage, based on Selection. “Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn’t here to hear that disgusting remark.
“But if she was alive today, I think she would say, ‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go fuck yourself.’ And yes, the Wall Street Journal can quote me on that.”
On Monday, a senior marketing campaign adviser for Donald Trump instructed CNN that the speeches from the Madison Sq. Backyard rally had been vetted beforehand, however insisted that the extra offensive remarks had been ad-libbed and never on any draft given to the marketing campaign.
Most of the remarks from Sunday gave the impression to be learn from teleprompters, CNN added, indicating that they’d been permitted by somebody inside the occasion’s planning workforce. One other Trump marketing campaign adviser instructed the broadcaster that they had been unsure as to how the racist language had made it to the stage.
The Bulwark additionally reported on Monday that Trump’s marketing campaign workers had requested all of the audio system to submit drafts of their speeches earlier than they had been loaded into the teleprompter, which reportedly resulted within the objection to 1 joke by which Hinchcliffe had deliberate to label Harris with an obscenity.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump instructed ABC Information that he didn’t hear any of the feedback made by Hinchcliffe on the rally and that he didn’t know the comic.
Then on Tuesday afternoon, throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Mar-a-Lago, Trump described the New York rally as a “love fest”.
“I don’t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,” Trump stated. “The love in that room, it was breathtaking.”
He added: “Politicians that have been doing this for a long time said there’s never been an event so beautiful, it was like a love fest, an absolute love fest, and it was my honor to be involved.”
Because the New York rally, Trump and his marketing campaign have tried to do harm management.
At his Pennsylvania rally on Tuesday, Trump praised the Puerto Rican neighborhood, saying that “nobody loves our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community more than I do” earlier than claiming that he had carried out loads for the island as president.
