2 weeks Ago By The Independent
The comedian who denigrated and Hispanic people at a Trump rally on Sunday night was planning to call Kamala Harris the C-word before campaign aides intervened, reports say. after he took the stage at Madison Square Garden to call a "floating island of garbage" and invoke racist tropes about Jews and Black people. But , his original draft included a line where he called Harris the C-word, which one campaign source described as "a red flag".
Campaign staff asked Hinchcliffe to remove the joke, and he did so, the site reported, but they reportedly did not spot his other insulting lines because they were ad-libbed. It comes after 's pro-Trump super PAC, named America PAC, teasingly called Harris "a C-word" in a now-deleted post on the social media site X. Only later in the video did the fundraising organisation reveal that it meant she is a Communist.
Hinchcliffe's jokes were merely one controversial element of Trump's much-heralded campaign event on Sunday evening, . After the rally, , saying he "made fun of everyone" and that Harris's running mate should "change [his] tampon.” But the Trump campaign distanced itself from at least one of Hinchcliffe's jokes – the one about Puerto Rico – by saying that it "does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.
” Sources who spoke to expressed mixed feelings about the comedian's set. "It’s a joke. People need to grow up.
This is what we’re campaigning against: PC culture run amok," said one. "This isn’t the hill we need to die on,said another. "Puerto Rico as a trash island – for f***'s sake!".
