Following Donald Trump‘s controversial Madison Sq. Backyard rally, Bill Maher had some thought concerning the selection in leisure.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the host responded commented on roast comic Tony Hinchcliffe‘s set on the marketing campaign occasion, through which he referred to as Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the midst of the ocean.”
“What the Trump individuals did at this rally — it’s so Trump — they employed an insult comedian,” mentioned Maher. “Actually, he went up there and did very insulting issues. I’d by no means heard of him, however that is his act he does on a regular basis. And he instructed a extremely demeaning joke about Puerto Rico. … It didn’t even go over with the Trump crowd. They mentioned, ‘Look, we didn’t come right here to listen to vicious remarks from an insult comedian. We got here right here to listen to it from the candidate.’”
Throughout his roundtable with Tim Miller and Michael Moynihan, Maher nervous the backlash made “the Democrats look weak as a result of they’ll’t take a joke,” as President Joe Biden beforehand called Trump supporters “garbage” in response (he’s since clarified he was referring to the joke about Puerto Rico).
“Effectively, it was insulting,” he reasoned. “However look, I’ve to defend my career. I’m a comic book, I’m a free speech [supporter]. … However this man’s an insult comedian. Why he’s at this specific [event], it’s like bringing cocaine to a funeral.”
Tony Hinchcliffe speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for Donald Trump at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis on Oct. 27, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
After Republicans took offense to Biden’s remark, Maher mentioned, “They’re simply as huge snowflakes, they’re. As a result of, if I did that joke in reverse and as an alternative of Puerto Rico, mentioned Staten Island, they might have had a s— match. They’d have discovered that utterly unacceptable.”
Following Trump’s MSG rally, Harris gave an impassioned closing argument on Tuesday in entrance of the White Home, the place an estimated 75,000 people had been reportedly in attendance.
“These United States of America, we’re not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators,” she mentioned. “The USA of America is the best thought of humanity ever devised, a nation large enough to embody all our desires, robust sufficient to face up to any fracture or fissure between us, and fearless sufficient to think about a way forward for potentialities.”
The vp added, “I pledge to hunt widespread floor and customary sense options to make your life higher. I’m not trying to rating political factors. I’m trying to make progress… And to individuals who disagree with me — in contrast to Donald Trump, I don’t consider individuals who disagree with me are the enemy. He desires to place them in jail. I’ll give them a seat on the desk.”
