Two hours earlier than Donald Trump was set to take the stage at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis, right-wing comic Tony Hinchcliffe warmed up the gang with a surprisingly racist efficiency.
“Where are my proud Latinos at tonight?” Hinchcliffe requested the packed area, eliciting scattered loud cheers. “You guys see what I mean? [The border’s] wide open. There’s so many of them.”
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too,” he added. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside just like they did to our country.”
The gang groaned and cheered as Hinchcliffe continued, saying, “Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor.”
Hinchcliffe’s “joke” mirrors MAGA speaking factors invoking the “great replacement theory”: the white supremacist conspiracy concept that brown migrants, typically on the behest of Jews, are “invading” America and Europe to “replace” white individuals.
Subsequent, Hinchcliffe referenced how persons are “eating the pets” in Springfield, Ohio, a reference to the Trump marketing campaign’s racist lie about Haitian immigrants within the metropolis.
When discussing Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza, Hinchcliffe made an antisemitic joke about Jews being low cost and obsessive about cash.
“Why is our money involved in these wars when it comes to Israel and Palestine?” he mentioned. “We’re all thinking the same thing — settle your stuff already. Best out of three: rock, paper, scissors. You know, the Palestinians are going to throw rock every time. You also know the Jews have a hard time throwing that paper, you know?”
Hinchcliffe additionally referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a comment about Black individuals who “carved watermelons” as a substitute of pumpkins for Halloween.
Throughout a livestream, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, reacted to Hinchcliffe’s feedback about Puerto Rico shortly after he made them.
“Who’s that jackwad?” Walz requested, whereas Ocasio-Cortez, who’s of Puerto Rican heritage, mentioned, “When you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico ‘floating garbage,’ know that that’s what they think about you.”
“It’s what they think about anyone who makes less money than them … I want every Puerto Rican in Philadelphia and Reading and across the country to see this clip,” she continued.
Hinchcliffe’s speech marks the close to finish of a presidential marketing campaign that’s arguably some of the racist in American historical past.
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“I’m just here to say that you guys are for the right candidate,” he instructed the gang.
“I love you, New York,” Hinchcliffe added. “God bless New York. God bless America.”
