Donald Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox & Friends early Monday to argue that the MAGA rally held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday– punctuated by racist and sexist rhetoric from several speakers– was filled with “happiness and joy.”
“It was amazing,” Leavitt said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.“The energy last night was palpable in the room, the spirit. It was happiness and joy.”
“And it was such a diverse group of people in that stadium packed to the house,” she continued. “There wasn’t an empty seat. You had black Americans, Latino Americans, Jewish Americans, men, women of all ages coming in support of President Trump and unafraid to show it.”
Yet, with a little more than a week before election the Trump campaign is facing backlash over comments made by speakers at the event targeting those groups Leavitt bragged were present at the rally.
Chief among them was pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who opened the rally by making racist remarks about Latinos and Black people and referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.” Moments later, Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, to waste in the ocean.
“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,” he said. “I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
Hinchcliffe also told a racist alleged joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together for Halloween.
Asked about the controversy during her appearance on Fox Monday, Leavitt blamed the media for reporting on Hinchcliffe’s remarks.
“It was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste,” she saod. “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.”
But these ‘phenomenal list of speakers’ also made hateful and disturbing comments which have been drowned out by Hinchcliff’s disgusting remarks.
Trump continued to attack immigrants and vowed to invoke an 18th century law to allow for mass deportations while doubling down on his comments calling his rivals the “enemy within.”
Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson: “It’s gonna be pretty hard to look at (the country after Harris wins) and say, you know what, Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s so impressive – as the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
Failed House Republican candidate David Rem called Harris “the devil,” and the “antichrist.”
Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump administration’s family separation policy, said “America is for America and Americans only.”
Radio host Sid Rosenberg called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a “sick bastard” and a “sick son of a b*tch.” He also attacked immigrants telling the crowd “you got homeless and veterans – Americans, Americans – sleeping on their own feces on a bench in Central Park. But the f**king illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?”
Businessman Grant Cardone called Harris, a former US Senator and current vice president “the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history,” and suggested that she is a prostitute.
“She makes her boss look competent,” Cardone said. “She’s a fake. I’m not here to invalidate her. She’s a fake, a fraud. She’s a pretender. Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country. They will.”
On Monday, Leavitt told Fox & Friends that “the crowd, they didn’t mind” the offensive comments .
“Again, it was a diverse group of people,” she continued. “The joke fell flat, but the crowd was there because they know who President Trump is and they know he wants to be a president for all Americans.”
