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Floating Island of Garbage Comment (Puerto Rico) At Trump Rally Causes Major Backlash

Anthony Carranza
4 min readOct 28, 2024

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Tony Hinchcliffe Twitter profile screenshot.

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is turning out to be the most expensive and controversial to date. Yesterday at a Donald Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden, Tony Hinchcliffe said a lot of controversial remarks that included a very despicable description of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.”

You can find the comments made in the video below between minute 2:10 to 2:15. This was all but intentional and to say that it was comedy at the core of it is nothing short of a lie. The theme of it starts by mentioning where Hinchcliffe grew up and lived to then making a very stereotypical comment that Latinos like making babies.

According to a 10 News dot com report, the Trump campaign has supposedly distanced itself from the comments. However, let’s not get it confused because they knew a guest speaker is subject to how much time they would talk and vetted what the topic was going to be centered on. Naturally, this is no mistake or a complete surprise because they knew…

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Anthony Carranza
Anthony Carranza

Written by Anthony Carranza

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