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Trump thinks his Madison Square Garden hate fest was a great success

Trump thinks his Madison Square Garden hate fest was a great success

It was compared to a Nazi rally and managed to offend millions of American citizens, but… Donald Trump he believes in Sunday evening hate rally/festival Madison Square Garden couldn’t have been better.

During a call with religious leaders in Georgia on Monday, Trump bred event in Midtown Manhattan: “We had a great rally at Madison Square Garden last night.” Later, during the election campaign in Atlanta, he declared: “We had the largest rallies in the history of the world, not just this country. There’s never been… I mean, we packed Madison Square Garden last night. We could fill it 10 times. At no point did the GOP nominee mention that the featured speakers had made such comments involved: :

  • Calling Puerto Rico a “Floating Garbage Island”
  • Saying, “These Latinos love making babies… There’s no backing out. They don’t do that. They go inside. Just like they did to our country.”
  • I “joke” about Jews being cheap
  • I’m “joking” about a black man carving a watermelon for Halloween
  • Vocation Hillary Clinton “sick son of a bitch”
  • Statement: “America is for Americans and Americans only”
  • Saying Kamala Harris has “pimps”
  • Typically offensive comments about Palestinians
  • Typically offensive comments about transgender people

Trump also did not comment on the fact that his “big rally” led many Republican lawmakers to do so to talk outside against event.

Meanwhile, it turns out that somehow Sunday evening could have been even more offensive in their opinion report from Bulwark Mark Caputo:

On Sunday night, Donald Trump’s campaign was disrupted by a baking comic Tony Hinchcliff made offensive jokes about Latinos and Black people on stage during the former president’s rally at Madison Square Garden. These words sparked immediate reaction and even condemnation from other Republicans. But four top campaign sources said it could have been even worse.

“He made a joke by calling (Vice President Kamala) Harris a ‘cunt,’” a campaign source involved in discussions about the event told The Bulwark. “Let’s just say it was a red flag.” Hinchcliffe’s remarks – and the subsequent reaction – raised questions about how such offensive speech was allowed to take place at such a high-profile rally; whether it was intentional; and why a presidential campaign would elevate a master comic baked in the final days of a tight race for the White House.

Per Caputo: “According to the sources mentioned above, campaign staff have asked all speakers to submit drafts of their speeches in advance – before they are loaded into the teleprompter.” When an inappropriate ‘cunt’ joke was reported, Hinchcliffe was asked to stop it. The same sources claimed they never encountered any other deeply offensive remarks because they were allegedly improvised. (The Bulwark was unable to reach Hinchcliffe for comment. Vanity fair has contacted Hinchcliffe’s publicist for comment.)

It should be noted that while Team Trump apparently removed the C-word and later spoke out against Hinchcliffe’s “floating island of garbage” statement, neither Trump nor his campaign condemned any other remarks, suggesting they had nothing against. Which, if you’ve listened to any of the words that have come out of Trump’s mouth over the last eight years, makes sense!

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