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Trump and his friends smiled and partied at Madison Square Garden. Then they got mean (www.independent.co.uk)

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Trump made his ‘surreal’ return to New York with his name in lights at one of the world’s most celebrated stadiums, where roughly 19,000 people cheered on crude insults and attacks days before Election Day, Alex Woodward reports from Madison Square Garden

The crowd was beaming with optimism, shaking hands and embracing friends and strangers, all dressed head-to-toe in patriotic colors — then digested six hours of borderline racist, profanity-filled remarks and vulgar insults aimed at their political opponents.

A long list of Donald Trump’s high-profile allies at his massive Madison Square Garden rally labeled Kamala Harris “the antichrist” and “the devil” and lamented “f****ing illegals.” Tucker Carlson joked that Trump’s Democratic rival — a Black and Indian-American woman — is “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ” presidential nominee.

“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,” said comedian Tony Hinchliffe, who goes by the stage name Kill Tony.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

In his joke, Hinchcliffe, known as Kill Tony, said: "There’s a lot going on. 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."

US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was "disgusted" by the "racist comment". She said on X that it did not "reflect the GOP values", referring to the Republican Party, and noted thousands of Puerto Ricans served in the military.

This is exactly the "GOP values", has she not listened to the hate coming out of the GOP for decades?

US Senator Rick Scott said: "The joke bombed for a reason. It's not funny and it's not true." He added that "Puerto Ricans are amazing people and amazing Americans".

Weird take when the GOP candidate has been spewing lies [many racist in nature] about anyone he sees not bending the knee.

"This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign," spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement.

Funny how they pick a guy with a history of saying racist stuff as a "joke" and then try to distance Trump and his campaign from it when even Republicans got upset about it.