Aubrey Plaza Blasts Trump Rally Comic’s “Garbage” Joke About Puerto Rico: “Disgusting Remark”

Aubrey Plaza spoke out towards a comment made by a comic at Donald Trump‘s Madison Sq. Backyard rally on Sunday, calling Tony Hinchcliffe‘s joke insult about Puerto Rico “disgusting.”

The comic was a heat up act for Trump himself, and known as Puerto Rico a “floating pile of rubbish.” He additionally used racist tropes about Latinos, Blacks, Jews and Palestinians.

At WSJ Journal’s 2024 Innovator Awards, Plaza mentioned, “As a Puerto Rican girl, I simply needed to in a short time reply to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, the place most of my household is from. Fortunately, my candy abuelita wasn’t right here to listen to that disgusting comment, but when she was alive right now, I believe she would say, ‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go f— your self.’”

Trump has tried to distance himself from Hinchcliffe’s comment, which has drawn a rebuke from different Republicans and a few requires the marketing campaign to apologize. “I don’t know who he’s,” Trump mentioned on Fox Information’ Hannity on Tuesday. Earlier within the day, Trump additionally insisted that the rally was a “love fest,” although different audio system in contrast Kamala Harris to a prostitute and referred to her because the “antichrist.”

The Trump marketing campaign has tried to show the tables, pointing to a remark that President Joe Biden made about Hinchcliffe. In an look for the group Vote Latino on Tuesday, Biden known as Puerto Ricans “good, first rate honorable individuals.” “The one rubbish I see floating out there may be his supporter’s — his — demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.”

Trump and his allies seized on the remark, claiming that Biden had known as the entire former president’s supporters “rubbish.” However the White Home and Biden himself clarified that the president’s use of the phrase “supporters” had an apostrophe, and he was speaking about Hinchcliffe and his comment.