Trump Campaign in Panic Mode After Uproar Over Racist Puerto Rico Joke

https://newrepublic.com/post/187592/trump-team-erase-racist-puerto-rico-joke

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  2. No. They are not in panic mode. Newrepublic isnt exactly accurate.

  3. Are they panicking that they hadn’t made this joke earlier to entice more maga?

  4. If they’re in panic mode it’s only because their racism was showing more than they wanted it to.

  5. This was his concession rally tbh.

    Play the base and prep them for all the election interference nonsense that will be occurring

  6. Why would the Trump campaign be in panic mode? This is Trump doing exactly what Trump wants to do.

    I’m sure many Republicans are in panic mode because they’ve finally realized the horrible person they’ve nominated.

  8. What about the anti-semitic joke. Nobody bothered about that?

  9. But naturally, the campaign is NOT in panic mode over the equally racist jokes about black people and Jews. They’re not even commenting on that part of Tony Hinchcliffe’s performance. They are literally only focused on the part about Puerto Ricans.

    Because — as they have stumbled into acknowledging by this omission — black people and Jews weren’t going to vote for Trump in significant numbers anyway. So he and his campaign don’t give a shit what they think.

  10. Oh no, we hired someone who makes a living off saying what we believe to be be true !!!!

  11. They laughed and cheered at the “joke.” They own this, and there’s not a single fucking thing they can do about it.

  12. Trump campaign in panic mode as their white hood accidentally fell off.

  13. [This CNN clip explains why they’re in panic mode.](https://youtu.be/byPZCIet300)

    Basically, lots of Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania — the most important battleground state. Third highest population of Puerto Ricans in the country.

  14. No they aren’t. They knew exactly what everyone speaking at MSG was going to say.

  15. how about the parallel to the 1939 American Nazi rally? Does anyone really believe it’s a coincidence? I mean aside from people up to their eyeballs and propaganda, like, it should be obvious at this point what’s been percolating and planned

    they got off the dog whistle years ago, they are now on a Nazi bullhorn telling the entire world what they intend to do

    I never thought it would be so easy to condition people to live under gatekeepers of their own knowledge, in a society that has unlimited access to information; up to 2016 I wouldn’t have believed it possible on the scale that it’s happening, but here we are, collectively gaslit by a two-bit con man who shits himself before lunch every day

  16. Poor Tony is going to see how quickly he gets thrown under the bus. What a way to destroy your career, with tone deaf jokes in front of a huge audience in an irony free atmosphere.

  17. Tbh if Tony had just come out and said yeah I was making fun of Trump supporters. Even though still damaging, at least I’d be able to see where the joke was. He just doubled down and said his jokes were taken out of context. When, bro, the context is you’re making jokes on the most serious stage there is.

    These people believe you.

  18. It’s not really a joke though.

    It was a belief, written into joke format.

    He was serious about his opinion of Puerto Rico.

  19. They’re not panicking. This is the strategy. They want to create stuff that gets in the news as a way of getting low propensity voters to the polls. That’s it. For them, the risk of losing whatever latinos would change their vote for this is worth it to get a bunch of racists to the polls.

  20. All the MAGA chuds I work with are huddled up today talking about this and they aren’t in panic mode. They LOVE IT. Get the fuck out and vote.

  21. Oh please. They’re panicking to find more opportunities to be more racist because that’s who they and their voters are. If they had any scruples whatsoever they wouldn’t be MAGA to begin with

  23. No one in Trump’s orbit is in “panic mode”, the blatant racism is a feature, not a bug. His supporters fucking LOVE it.

  24. Why the fuck would THIS make him panic? Heartless shark-eyed fascist felon threw paper towels at them when they were drowning.

  25. We will soon find out Baron Trump recommended this comedian because he’s “funny”

  26. I’m surprised that joke is getting all the attention while pointing out a black guy and saying “I was at his Halloween party, we had a good time carving watermelons” is not getting any. I genuinely can’t believe these are said at presidential rallies and the candidate is still a viable option

  27. As a gay person, I’ve been at the brunt of these MAGA minimizing assholes forever.

    No matter how hard I fought for their freedom, or how hard I worked in the ICU during COVID keeping them alive, their thing is to look down on others. Trump’s thing is to give them the style and permission to do it.

  28. It’s not a joke when it’s at a political rally expressing the same ideas as policy. That’s what that weasley little man child from Youngstown, OH either doesn’t understand or more likely doesn’t give a shit about.

    That whole group of “comedians” are at the same humor and maturity level as a gaggle of 9th grade goblins mocking a special-ed kid. And they are being rewarded for it. That shit *should* be canceled. It’s weak as fuck.

  29. Same dude also made a black ppl like watermelons joke like my guy is getting ancient racist

  30. Tony Hinchcliffe is a piece of shit. He goes to comedy clubs as a surprise pop-in and proceeds to brutally roast audience members who barely know who he is and certainly didn’t buy a ticket hoping to see him. He’s a bully, a hack, and now I know he’s a racist scumbag too. Not surprised at all.

  31. Panic mode? Hardly. It was the loudest dog whistle yet. Media… stop allowing yourself to be gaslighted by Trump and his ilk. They’re laughing at how gullible you are.

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