#Trump MSG

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I’m…yeah, sure.

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Election 2024 updates: Trump MSG rally marked by racist tropes and vitriol

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump headlined a hometown rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. But what Queens-born Trump expected to be a star-studded headliner event −like that of world-class performers − with the likes of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Hulk Hogan and UFC CEO Dana White soon unfurled. Warm up acts, including comedian Tony Hinchliffe, who goes by…

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[tomorrowusa]

Trump's disrespect for Puerto Ricans is intentional. Don't believe excuses from his campaign.

Republicans and MAGA handlers are busy trying to come up with ways to disassociate Trump from the orgy of racism he conducted at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. If you believe those excuses then you probably also believe that Trump was faithful to all three of his wives. 😂

For starters, Trump micromanages his rallies. He even personally curates the shitty playlists people hear at them. Remember how he abruptly ended a question and answer session in Pennsylvania so he could mindlessly sway to music of his choosing for almost 40 minutes?

Some Republicans are trying to claim that Tony Hinchcliffe was acting on his own with his anti-Latino disrespect on Sunday. That is total bullshit.

His references to Puerto Rico were on a teleprompter, the same one used by Trump, they were not something off the top of his head.

Like the rest of the speakers who took the stage before Trump, Hinchcliffe’s remarks were pre-loaded into a teleprompter, indicating that they would likely have been vetted by the campaign in advance.

In fact, Hinchcliffe's comments were screened ahead of time by the campaign. The Trump managers decided to leave in Hinchcliffe’s racist comments but grudgingly made him remove an obecenity regarding Vice President Harris.

“He had a joke calling Harris a ‘c---,’” one campaign insider involved Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally told The Bulwark. “Let’s say it was a red flag.” Four sources in the Trump campaign told the publication that staffers asked speakers to submit draft speeches prior to the event. It was while reviewing Hinchcliffe’s draft that the problematic remark was spotted, and the comedian was asked to remove it from his script.

Of course Hinchcliffe was not the only person spreading hatred at the Trump rally. But he was the first, and set the tone for the rest of the disastrous Trump event.

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Let’s play a game!

[charliezeltzer]

My son, is half Puerto Rican. He's young now but I want him to grow up proud of his heritage and proud of his traditions, and proud of who he is and who he will become.

Puerto Rico is not a "floating island of garbage". I am not speaking on behalf of Latinos, but I will not let my sons culture be reduced to mere garbage floating in the middle of the ocean.

If you haven't voted, I urge you to do so. Not for me, not for you, but for my son.

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Donald Trump: "I don't think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden."

Madison Garden 1939:

When you know, you know.

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(via Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Roasts Trump Supporters At His MSG Rally | The Daily Show)

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Tucker’s 9-min speech at the MSG Trump Rally!

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kos at Daily Kos:

In the days after Donald Trump’s infamous Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden where a comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” Republicans demanded people “get over” their feelings, claiming that it was just a “joke.” Trump walked around claiming he knew nothing about the comedian, as if the controversy was about his personal Rolodex and not what people were saying in his name, at his rallies, with his implied consent.  Here’s what’s particularly funny: The racism on display at that rally didn’t just break through the cacophony of Trump scandals, but it is Republicans who helped amplify it—and made the consequences worse for Trump and the GOP. 

As a reminder, here’s what MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said to warm up the crowd of Trump faithful: “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.”  Then he kept going. “And these Latinos, they love making babies too,” Hinchcliffe said. “Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” 

The “roast” comedian went on to make racist jokes about Black people, Jews, and Palestinians. Weirdly, he made zero jokes about white evangelical conservative men.  Trump and his surrogates could’ve done something crazy: apologize. The Republican presidential nominee could’ve taken the stage that same night and said, “Woah, that’s not what I stand for.” While it’s totally what he stands for, the media would’ve fallen for it because they love nothing more than giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. But he couldn’t apologize, because he believes it. He literally wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.  A couple of days later, President Joe Biden delivered a Rorschach test of a sentence in which he was saying that Hinchcliffe was garbage, but MAGA pretended he said all Trump supporters were garbage. Because they are the weirdest people in the world, they decided to walk around wearing trash bags and calling each other trash. They were still on that this weekend.

[...] By wearing trash bags and talking about garbage and riding around in garbage trucks, these Pennsylvania Latinos think Republicans are doubling down on the insult. And even if Latino voters don’t make that connection, Republicans who continue to talk about garbage are keeping the original story alive. 

The Republicans handling of the Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist set may be coming to rear its ugly head and cost them the Presidency.

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Jon Stewart on Trump's Xenophobic MSG Rally & Mass Deportation Plan

Yes We know it’s halloween, so we’re bringing the spooks out first

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Chat I'm not gonna lie I'm gettin real big pre jan 6th vibes

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"No, I'm not going in. I wanted to speak, but they said we don't need dogs and we have way too many puppets already."

-- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog outside of Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally.

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[tomorrowusa]

MAGA is really just a variant of fascism. The racist anti-Latino orgy of ethno-nationalism at MSG on Sunday has removed all doubt.

Dean Obeidallah at SubStack walks us through it.

Here is a sample of the hate buffet served up to the cheering MAGA crowd. 1.        Anti-women: Donald Trump again called VP Harris a "very low IQ individual." Tucker Carlson said to cheers if Harris wins she will be “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”  Grant Cardone, a businessman said VP Harris and “her pimp handlers will destroy our country,” obviously suggesting Harris is a  prostitute. -David Rem a person the campaign identified as a childhood friend of Trump, brandished a crucifix and called Vice President Kamala Harris “the antichrist” and “the devil” to huge applause. 2.        Anti-Black: -The rally played Confederate favorite “Dixie” before Black GOP Rep. Byron Donalds came out at Madison Square Garden. -“This cool Black guy with the thing on his head, what is that a lampshade? Believe this guy? Just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun, we carved watermelons together,” said podcaster and alleged comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. 3.        Anti-Latino and anti-Migrant hate: -Referring to Latino migrants, radio host Sid Rosenberg declared to cheers that they are causing crime and that: “The fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?!” -“I don’t know if you guys 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 Tony Hinchcliffe. -“These Latinos, they love making babies. Let’s know that they do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They cum inside. Just like they did to our country!’ again Hinchcliffe. 4.        Anti-Arab/Palestinian hate: -Rudy Giuliani declared: "The Palestinians are taught to kill us at two-years old. There may have good people. I'm sorry I don't take a risk with people who are taught to kill Americans at two." He then declared to big cheers, “I’m on the side of Israel…Donald Trump is on the side of Israel.” 5. Anti-Semitism: -“You also know the Jews having a hard time throwing out that paper, you know what I’m saying?’ Hinchcliffe stated while mimicking holding money, playing on anti-Semitic trope that Jews are cheap. Before this MAGA event, some invoked the hate-filled February 20, 1939 Nazi rally at MSG billed as a "Pro American Rally" which featured a huge image of George Washington in between swastikas. After Sunday’s Trump rally, that comparison was no longer speculative, it was 100% accurate.

Yes, they even played "Dixie" – the Confederate anthem.

This event was held at a large venue in America's media capital with the intent of exposing as many Americans as possible to their message. They are not trying to hide anything. They want to make sure every last nutcake hears their words.

As David Frum via Charlie Sykes on SubStack observed:

This rally seems aimed at the crucial bloc of swing voters who like Donald Trump but worry that maybe he's not quite stupid and obnoxious enough. They need him and his team to squeeze out of the tube that one last plop of stupidity and obnoxiousness.

The stupidest thing for us to do is to freak out. Michael Tomasky wrote an excellent piece in The New Republic.

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