Tag: remarks
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Tony Hincliffe’s workshopped Trump rally racist Puerto Rico remarks at comedy club the night before
The comedian who let loose a series of racist jokes, some about Puerto Rico, at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday night workshopped the material the night before at a local comedy club. The comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” to warm up the New York…
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Trump rally overshadowed by ally’s racist remarks and Quarter Pounder is back on the menu: Morning Rundown
Donald Trump headlines a rally in Madison Square Garden after racist and crude remarks from his allies. Quarter Pounders are back on the menu at McDonald’s after tests show patties were not the source of the E.coli outbreak. And highlights from Week 8 of the NFL. Here’s what to know today. Trump’s MSG rally overshadowed…
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Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies’ crude and racist remarks
Former President Donald Trump delivered his standard lines on topics ranging from immigration to the economy Sunday during a packed rally at Madison Square Garden, an event that was designed to be the start of his closing argument nine days out from Election Day at a venue off the battleground map that he has wanted…
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Biden says ‘lock him up’ in remarks about Trump
President Joe Biden on Tuesday echoed language former President Donald Trump has used in the past, saying of the former president that “we gotta lock him up.” Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Biden said Trump’s policies are so “bizarre” and dangerous that if he’d warned about them five years ago “you’d lock…
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Hamilton College student admits to posting antisemitic remarks on campus, police say
A Hamilton College student has been charged with posting antisemitic remarks on campus, authorities said Monday. New York State Police’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to the private college located in upstate New York on Friday after receiving “a report of antisemitic remarks being posted on art canvases on campus,” police said in a news…
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Janet Jackson ‘apology’ for Kamala Harris remarks not authorized, from man claiming to be manager
An apology thought to be from singer Janet Jackson following a comment repeating misinformation about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity wasn’t actually made by her or authorized by her team. Representatives confirmed to NBC News on Monday that the statement, made to BuzzFeed over the weekend by a man named Mo Elmasri, was not…
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Black pastors rebuke Mark Robinson’s reported remarks about Martin Luther King Jr.
Three prominent Black pastors in North Carolina and other respected clergy have rebuked Mark Robinson, the embattled North Carolina lieutenant governor who is running for governor, for his past incendiary remarks about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Robinson is under intense fire after CNN shared countless controversial comments that he allegedly made on social…
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Kamala Harris rips Trump’s remarks on Springfield: ‘A crying shame’
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday ripped Donald Trump’s repeated bashing of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, saying the former president was “spewing lies grounded in tropes.” “It’s a crying shame. Literally,” Harris said in her most extensive remarks to date about her Republican opponent’s baseless claims. “I know that people are deeply troubled by…