Former President Trump on Monday boasted concerning the attendance at his Madison Sq. Backyard rally at the same time as his marketing campaign finds itself engulfed in controversy over jokes made throughout the occasion.
“Look! Look! Up in the little, tiny corners of this big place. We’ve had the greatest rallies in the history of the world, not just this country,” Trump informed supporters at a rally in Atlanta, pointing to a number of the supporters within the higher seating sections.
“There’s never been — I mean, we filled up Madison Square Garden last night. We could have filled it up 10 times,” he continued. “If you looked outside, you saw that all the way back to the Hudson River. There’s never been anything like it.”
Madison Sq. Backyard, the place Trump held a rally on Sunday, seats as much as 19,500 folks. His marketing campaign stated the occasion had been offered out, in keeping with Reuters.
But it surely was largely the visitor audio system featured on the rally — not Trump himself — who attracted headlines. Comic Tony Hinchcliffe specifically generated criticism for calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” He additionally made a crude joke about Latinos, infants and immigration.
Conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson, one other visitor speaker, mocked Vice President Harris’s racial identification on the occasion, whereas Trump ally Rudy Giuliani made racist remarks about Palestinians.
The Trump marketing campaign has sought to distance itself from Hinchcliffe’s feedback, arguing they don’t signify the views of the marketing campaign.
Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump marketing campaign, stated Monday on “Fox & Friends” that “it was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste.”
“Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign, and I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian, rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had,” she stated.
