WASHINGTON ¨C Republican and Democratic leaders alike as well as Puerto Rican celebrities bashed comments made at a major Donald Trump event in New York by a comedian who called Puerto Rico a ¡°floating island of garbage.¡±
Speaking before the Republican presidential candidate at a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, comedian and podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe added that Latinos ¡°love making babies¡± and that they do not ¡°pull out,¡± comments that leaned into a racist trope that Latinos are preoccupied with childbearing and averse to birth control.
¡°There¡¯s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,¡± Hinchcliffe said. ¡°I think it¡¯s called Puerto Rico.¡±
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