Trump campaign breaks silence on Tony Hinchcliffe's Puerto Rico 'floating island of garbage' rally comments

Donald Trump's statesmanlike run was connected harm power work Monday aft backlash against comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's 'island of garbage' joke astir Puerto Rico astatine Sunday's Madison Square Garden rally.

'It was a divers group of people. The joke fell flat,' said run spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt successful an quality connected 'Fox & Friends,' wherever she fielded a nonstop mobility astir nan controversy.

She appeared aft nan run took nan different measurement of distancing itself from nan comments by 1 of nan speakers astatine Trump's large rally successful Madison Square Garden Sunday, successful opposition to Trump's emblematic 'fight, fight, fight' mantra.

Co-host Steve Doocy asked Leavitt astir nan remarks, calling them offensive.

'You know, this morning, mainstream media has picked up connected nan comic's comments, which were offensive, person been denounced by nan run and everybody else. What went connected pinch that?'

Leavitt didn't speak to really nan jokes sewage into nan programme aliases whether they were vetted, responding, 'Look, it was a comedian who made a joke successful mediocre taste.'

'Obviously, that joke does not bespeak nan views of President Trump aliases our campaign. And I deliberation it is sad that nan media will prime up connected 1 joke that was made by a comedian, alternatively than nan truths that were shared by nan phenomenal database of speakers that we had,' she added – shifting blasted to nan media, which Trump called nan 'enemy of nan people' successful his ain remarks. 

'And nan crowd, they didn’t mind, right?' she said. 'Again, it was a divers group of people. The joke fell flat, but nan crowd was location because they cognize who President Trump is and they cognize he wants to beryllium a president for each Americans.'

There is an estimated organization of much than 400,000 Puerto Ricans successful battleground Pennsylvania, arsenic Trump critics quickly pointed retired Sunday night. (Residents of Puerto Rico and different U.S. territories cannot ballot successful U.S. statesmanlike elections).

'I don't cognize if you cognize this but there's virtually a floating land of garbage successful nan mediate of nan water correct now,' Hinchcliffe said successful his joke onstage. 'I deliberation it's called Puerto Rico.' 

'This joke does not bespeak nan views of President Trump aliases nan campaign,' Trump run elder advisor Danielle Alvarez said Sunday arsenic nan contention was heating up.

Hinchcliffe, who has a celebrated podcast, had been listed connected nan charismatic programme of events astatine an arena cautiously organized by nan run conscionable complete a week earlier Election Day.

Former Fox big Tucker Carlson mocked Harris' ethnicity moreover while suggesting it wasn't imaginable that she would triumph successful a title that is polling astir even.

'It’s going to beryllium beautiful difficult to look astatine america and opportunity "You cognize what? Kamala Harris, she sewage 85 cardinal votes because she’s truthful awesome arsenic nan first Samoan-Malaysian, debased I.Q., erstwhile California charismatic ever to beryllium elected president,' he said.

Another speaker called Vice President Kamala Harris 'the antichrist.' 

Leavitt defended nan wide reside of nan rally arsenic good erstwhile she appeared connected camera early Monday.

'It was happiness and joy. And it was specified a divers group of group successful that stadium packed to nan house. There wasn’t an quiet seat. You had achromatic Americans, Latino Americans, Jewish Americans, men, women of each ages coming successful support of President Trump and unafraid to show it,' she said.

Another remark by Hinchcliffe began: 'These Latinos, they emotion making babies, too. Just cognize that they do.' Then he added: 'There's nary pulling out. They don't do that. They travel inside, conscionable for illustration they did to our country.'

'Republicans are nan statement pinch nan bully consciousness of humor,' he said aft that remark. 

Another speaker, businessman Grant Cardone said that Harris 'and her pimp handlers will destruct our country.'

At 1 constituent Hinchliffe referred to a 'black feline pinch a point connected his head' successful nan crowd. 'That's 1 of my buddies. 

'That's 1 of my buddies. He had a Halloween statement past night. We had fun. We carved watermelons together. It was awesome.'

Republicans raced to condemn nan comments. Wrote Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who is battling former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, 'This joke bombed for a reason. It’s not funny and it’s not true. Puerto Ricans are astonishing group and astonishing Americans!'

The racist comments astatine nan rally drew opprobrium successful media outlets, pinch nan New York Times headlining connected 'Grievances, Misogyny and Racism.'

Even earlier it began, Democrats had tried to nexus Trump's return to his erstwhile hometown's venue pinch a Nazi rally astatine nan Garden successful 1939.

'Donald Trump's sewage this large rally going astatine Madison Square Garden," Harris moving mate Tim Walz said Sunday successful Nevada. 'There's a nonstop parallel to a large rally that happened successful nan mid 1930s astatine Madison Square Garden. And don't deliberation that he doesn't cognize for 1 2nd precisely what they're doing there,' he said.