With seven days to go, the campaign for the American presidential election has entered its final week. Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, which ended with an 80-minute speech in which he denounced his rivals, criticized immigrants and talked about mass deportation. Besides the Republican nominee, the opening act filled with racist slurs, crude remarks and vitriol made headlines.

From donors to politicians and MAGA artists, everyone spoke the same language – it was crude and vulgar.

Here’s what happened on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Puerto Rico, a “floating island of waste”

THE
Rally at Madison Square Garden began with Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian and podcast host, who insulted 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. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said. The package also included lewd and racist comments about Latinos, Jews and blacks, all key groups in the party.
November 5 election.

This phrase was likely inspired by Trump who recently called the United States “a trash can for the world” while attacking illegal immigrants.

Hinchcliff’s joke was immediately criticized by the Harris campaign as it competes with Trump for winning over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states. Puerto Rican music superstar Bad Bunny supported Harris shortly after Hinchcliffe’s appearance.

The comic also attacked Latinos. “These Latinos also love making babies. Just know that they do.

The usually pugnacious Trump campaign took the rare step of distancing itself from Hinchcliffe. “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” senior advisor Danielle Alvarez said in a statement.

The rally took place in New York, home to the largest Puerto Rican population in the continental United States, reports CNN.

Republican Senator Rick Scott, whose re-election campaign depends on significant support from Florida’s Puerto Rican community, did not appreciate the “joke.” “It’s not funny and it’s not true. Puerto Ricans are extraordinary people and extraordinary Americans,” he wrote on X.

Comparing Kamala Harris to a prostitute

Some speakers, who took the stage before Trump, called Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris a “devil” and said the woman vying to become the first black and female president began her career as a prostitute.

Trump’s childhood friend and Republican politician David Rem also called the vice president “the Antichrist” and “the devil.” Businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd that Harris “and her pimps would destroy our country.”

The views expressed at the rally mirror those of Trump, who has often used sexist and racist slurs to attack Harris. Although he refrained from doing so on Sunday, throughout his campaign the former president has ripped his opponent in offensive and personal terms, in recent weeks questioning her mental stability and intelligence and calling her “lazy”, a long-used racist cliché. against blacks.

Another warm-up act was performed by the former Fox News host
Tucker Carlon. He wrongly referred to Harris as a “Samoan-Malaysian”. “It’s going to be pretty hard to look at (the country after Harris’ victory) and say, you know what, Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s so impressive – as the first former Samoan prosecutor , Malaysian and Californian with low IQ to have ever been elected president,” he fumed.

“No fair system would allow someone like Kamala Harris to advance to a presidential nomination… She has never been accused of doing anything useful.” She has precisely no success. She is a candidate without obtaining a single vote,” declared the enraged right winger.

Trump later also called Harris a “very low IQ person” and drew cheers from his supporters.

“America is for Americans only”

Carlson also discussed the “racist theory of the great replacement” that he had peddled in the past. “People know that in a country that has been taken over by a ruling class that despises them, that despises them, their values, their history, their culture and their customs, really hates them to the point that they are trying to replace them,” he declared, according to NPR. “They know someone who really cares about them, and that’s Donald Trump. And it’s rewarded.

A similar sentiment was echoed by former White House aide Stephen Miller. “America is for Americans and Americans only. »

Hillary Clinton, a “sick son of a bitch”

Another speaker, Sid Rosenberg, attacked Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee who lost to Trump eight years ago. “She’s kind of a sick bastard, this Hillary Clinton guy, huh,” he said, repeating what Trump has said in the past. “What a sick son of a bitch.”

The radio host then attacked the Democratic Party. “The whole party – a bunch of degenerates…Jew haters and thugs, every single one of them. »

He then attacked migrants living in New York. “There are homeless people and veterans – Americans, Americans – sleeping on their own excrement on a bench in Central Park,” Rosenberg said. “But these fucking illegals, they get what they want, don’t they?”

The other personalities present at the gathering were billionaires.
Elon MuskSenator JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Hulk Hogan and President Mike Johnson.

Trump promises ‘largest deportation program’ in US history

After a show of speakers who made shocking comments, Trump was introduced by his wife, Melania Trump, in a speech
rare appearance in the electoral campaign.

On Sunday, the former president added a new proposal to his list of tax cuts aimed at wooing seniors and blue-collar workers, which already includes eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits, tips and overtime : a tax credit for families. caregivers.

This comes after Harris spoke about the “sandwich generation” of adults who care for aging parents while raising their children. Harris has proposed federal funding to cover the costs of home care for older Americans.

Trump also repeated familiar lines on foreign policy and immigration, calling for the death penalty for any migrant who kills a US citizen. He declared that on the day he takes office, “the migrant invasion of our country ends,” calling the date of his eventual election a “liberation day.”

He has spoken repeatedly about his plans to end illegal immigration and
expel migrants he called them “vicious and bloodthirsty criminals” if he wins the election. “On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history…I will save every city and town that has been invaded and conquered. »

Democrats compare New York event to pro-Nazi rally

Some Democrats have called Trump a fascist, comparing his Sunday event to a pro-Nazi rally at the Garden in February 1939. The largest Nazi event in U.S. history took place at Madison Square Garden in 1939, just a few months before the Second World War.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Trump of re-enacting the 1939 rally, calling it “more unhinged, more unstable” than when she faced him in 2016.

Trump’s opponents describe him as a dangerous authoritarian, with some calling a possible second Trump term the Third Reich.

Recently, Trump
former chief of staff John Kelly said The New York Times that Trump had said he wanted his military personnel to show him the same deference that Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals showed the German dictator. The former president denied this claim.

The speakers at the Trump rally didn’t let it pass. “Hey guys, they’re scrambling now and trying to call us Nazis and fascists,” said Alina Habba, one of Trump’s lawyers, who draped a sparkly “MAGA” jacket over the lectern as she spoke.

” Hogan declared in his hoarse growl, “I don’t see any stinking Nazis here. »

Madison Square Garden was buzzing with MAGA energy. Although Democrats criticized the rally, it left even some Republicans wary.

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