Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City was saturated with insults as well as racist and anti-immigration remarks. Here are the most shocking quotes from the MAGA gathering.
1. Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of hot garbage”
Hinchcliffe’s racist and lewd jokes about Latinos have garnered backlash all over the internet. “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 c*** inside, just like they did to our country.” He also called Puerto Rico a “floating island of hot garbage.”
Hinchcliffe perpetuated racist tropes about Black people and watermelons and labeled Palestinians as rock-throwers. He then drew on the antisemitic trope that Jewish people would not spend money. Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement Hinchcliffe’s remarks “did not reflect the views of President Trump.”
2. Great replacement theory was once again boosted by Tucker Carlson
Former Fox personality Tucker Carlson has faced scrutiny for years for promoting great replacement theory, a belief that white Americans will be replaced by immigrants and people of color. At Sunday’s rally, Carlson once again propped up this notion.
“People know, in a country that has been taken over by a leadership class that actually despises them and their values and their history and their culture and their customs, really hates them, to the point that it’s trying to replace them — they know someone who actually has affection for them, and that’s Donald Trump,” he said.
Carlson also called VP Harris a “Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor.”
3. Dr. Phil McGraw went after DEI
McGraw interviewed Trump before giving his official endorsement for the former president at the rally. He stated that it’s time to fight against “cancel culture” before explaining the name of his latest venture, Merit Street Media.
“We didn’t choose the name for that by random... this country was built on hard work, added value and talent. Not on equal outcome, not on DEI, this country was built on hard work,” McGraw stated. In a statement, the NAACP wrote: “This country was absolutely built on hard work Dr. Phil…on the backs of Black, Brown, and immigrants from all across this WORLD!”
4. Grant Cordone likens Vice President Kamala Harris to a sex worker
Cardone, who is a businessman, attacked Kamala Harris with language used to describe sex workers after calling her “the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history.”
“She makes her boss look competent. 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.”
Cardone later encouraged Trump supporters to not just ensure the former president’s victory but to “slaughter this other people.”
5. Conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg insists “f***ing illegals...get whatever they want”
According to the New York Times, Hillary Clinton compared the campaign event to a Nazi rally. This set off conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg, who called her “some sick bastard” and “a sick son of a b***h.” He also called the Democratic party “a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives.”
Rosenberg saved his most alarming vitriol for immigrants. “You got homeless and veterans, Americans, Americans, sleeping in their own feces on a bench in Central Park,” he said. “But the f***ing illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?”
6. Trump adviser Stephen Miller quotes the KKK
Trump adviser and a creator of the former president’s immigration policy Stephen Miller told rally attendees that Trump would “stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone, America is for Americans and Americans only.” That phrase in particular has been used in the past by the Ku Klux Klan.