Backlash grows over Trump rally at Madison Square Garden
The fallout intensifies from the racist jokes and remarks at Donald Trump’s “closing argument” rally at Madison Square Garden yesterday.
The former president packed the Garden to show his strong support even in the bastion of liberalism that is New York City, but there’s been a fierce backlash online and in the media.
Former president Trump essentially recreated his national convention by filling the arena with adoring followers and having many of the same guest speakers. But one of them, a comedian, referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and also disparaged Blacks and Jews. Other speakers also made demeaning remarks about various ethnic groups, immigrants and Kamala Harris herself. The Trump campaign has disavowed the most offensive remarks and said it wasn’t aware of them in advance, but they were loaded into and read from the event teleprompter. There’s been an uproar online, and prominent Puerto Rican Americans are blasting Trump.
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The former president packed the Garden to show his strong support even in the bastion of liberalism that is New York City, but there’s been a fierce backlash online and in the media.
Former president Trump essentially recreated his national convention by filling the arena with adoring followers and having many of the same guest speakers. But one of them, a comedian, referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and also disparaged Blacks and Jews. Other speakers also made demeaning remarks about various ethnic groups, immigrants and Kamala Harris herself. The Trump campaign has disavowed the most offensive remarks and said it wasn’t aware of them in advance, but they were loaded into and read from the event teleprompter. There’s been an uproar online, and prominent Puerto Rican Americans are blasting Trump.
For more on this, KCBS Radio anc
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