Bad bunny, Jennifer Lopez And Ricky Martin were among those who supported the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris Sunday night after a comedian made a racist joke about Puerto Rico in Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday.

At the rally, held at New York’s Madison Square Garden, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made obscene and racist remarks against Latinos, Jews and blacks, all of whom make up key constituencies of the election, which will take place in just nine days.

“I don’t know if you know this, but there’s literally a floating island of trash in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe said at the rally.

Hinchcliffe’s joke was immediately criticized by Harris’ campaign as it competes with Trump for winning over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states.

Bad Bunny, who is from Puerto Rico and has 45.6 million followers on Instagram, responded by posting a story on his account featuring a video of Harris criticizing Trump for his actions following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, which both hit the island. within two weeks, leaving devastation behind. Thousands of people were killed. A 2021 report from the Department of Housing’s Office of Inspector General found that the Trump administration delayed more than $20 billion in emergency aid to Puerto Rico after the disaster.

In her IG story, Bad Bunny featured a video that Harris had posted to Rico. » she says in the video. “And this election is not just a choice between Donald Trump and me. It is a choice between two very different visions of our nation.

He added a second excerpt from his video, part of which is shown three times in his story: “I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he didn’t do, when Puerto Rico needed a caring and competent leader. He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes, and offered nothing but paper towels and insults.”

The view co-host Ana Navarro applauded Bad Bunny, real name Benito Martínez Ocasio, on X.

“Fuck and find out,” she posted. “After Trump rally chair called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’ #BadBunny chimes in, sharing @KamalaHarris’ proposal for with her 45 million followers.”

She ended with a message in Spanish that translated to: “Thank you, Benito. A thousand, thousand thanks for defending your island and the dignity of your people.

Lopez, who is Puerto Rican and has 250 million followers on Instagram, also posted part of Harris’ video to her IG story along with a screenshot of Harris’ plan to help Puerto Rico.

Fellow Puerto Rican Martin, who has 18.6 million followers on Instagram, did the same, adding a clip of Hinchcliffe making his joke.

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres also weighed in on When voting in the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems to want to highlight.

Also during the rally, Hinchcliffe made a racist joke about a Black man in the audience, saying he had “carved watermelons” with the audience member.

Meanwhile, the Democratic organization Battleground New York released a statement Sunday evening about the rally, calling the speeches “a torrent of deranged insanity, racism and xenophobia.”

“Whether it was targeting Puerto Rico with obscene hatred, continuing to claim the 2020 election was stolen, or trying to lay the groundwork for saying the same thing in 2024, this rally was a demonstration obscene amount of unvarnished intolerance in front of millions of people,” the group said. said. “It’s time to turn the page on a political era marked by the ban on abortion, the spread of wild conspiracy theories and an endless stream of nonsense that does nothing to solve the problems of working people.”