As clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe making racist jokes at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made the rounds Sunday, Tim Walz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described the speech as “a terrifying and absolutely crazy time.” The vice presidential candidate and congresswoman commented on the speech in real time, with AOC insisting that she wants “everyone in Philadelphia to see this clip.”

Part of Hinchcliffe’s speech included a racist attack on Puerto Rico. “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? Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez, whose family is Puerto Rican, were dismayed. “What is so screwed up – and I wish more people understood – is that the things they are doing in Puerto Rico are a testing ground for the policies and horrors that they want and want. ‘they reveal in working-class communities. across the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“And I need people to understand that when some asshole calls Puerto Rico floating garbage, know that that’s what they think of you,” she added. “That’s exactly what they think of you.” That’s what they think of anyone who makes less money than them.

The two also spoke directly with voters living in Philadelphia – which second largest population Puerto Ricans in the United States outside of New York – and Reading, Pennsylvania. “I want everyone in Philadelphia to see this clip,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“Like what the rubbish is people just think of other human beings that way, are you actually real?” she continued. “And what strikes me is that these people depend on working-class people their whole lives. »

Elsewhere in his speech, Hinchcliffe said: “And these Latinos love making babies too. Just know it. They do it. They do it. There is no withdrawal possible. They don’t do that. They enter. Just like they did with our country.

Others also criticized Hinchcliffe’s comments. Representative Ritchie Torres written the“As a Puerto Rican, I am tempted to call Hinchcliffe a racist trash, but that would be an insult to trash. When voting in the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems to want to highlight.

Hincliffe hit back on social media, where he wrote: “These people have no sense of humor. It’s crazy that a vice presidential candidate would take the time out of his “busy schedule” to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and my vacations there. I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change my tampon.

Elsewhere at the Trump rally, David Rem called Kamala Harris the “antichrist” and Sid Rosenberg denounced “fucking illegals” getting “whatever they want.”

After the rally, the Trump campaign distanced itself from Hinchcliffe’s speech, saying the Puerto Rico joke “does not reflect the views of President Trump and the campaign.”

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