Elon Musk, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr, the wrestler Hulk Hogan, the former ultraconservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe… For his meeting in the legendary Madison Square Garden hall in New York, the Republican candidate for American presidential candidate Donald Trump could count on renowned room attendants.
But if the former president managed to fill without problem the 20,000 places of what he considers to be the most famous arena in the world
his meeting once again caused controversy, marked by insults against the Puerto Rican community which caused a lot of reaction.
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The targeted Puerto Rican community
The comedian Tony Hinchcliffe notably compared Puerto Rico, many of whose natives reside in New York, to a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean
. A sequence quickly shared and denounced on social networks.
Several Puerto Rican stars, such as the prince of reggaeton Bad Bunny, and the singer Ricky Martin, were outraged by such comments. This is what they think of us
wrote Ricky Martin, referring to Donald Trump's meeting, then inviting his 18 million subscribers to support Donald Trump's Democratic opponent: vote for Kamala Harris
.
A sign of the unease, Donald Trump's campaign team also reacted via a press release, ensuring that this joke
de Tony Hinchcliffe does not reflect the views of President Trump or his campaign
.
For her part, Kamala Harris had just spent a day of campaigning in Philadelphia, where she spent time with Pennsylvania's large Puerto Rican population and presented a plan for economic opportunities working group
pour Puerto Rico.
Racist and anti-immigrant attacks, Kamala Harris targeted
As usual, the Republican candidate used his meeting to attack Kamala Harris, calling her vice-president incompetent
before, again, attacking immigration, accusing the Democrat of having opened the floodgates of America to bring in millions of migrants criminals
.
The vice president was also attacked by former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, who incorrectly targeted the Democratic nominee's origins, calling her a Samoan-Malaysian with low intelligence quotient
. Kamala Harris has Jamaican origins through her father and Indian origins through her mother.
At the podium, one of Donald Trump's hard-right advisors, Stephen Miller, also said that America is for Americans and Americans only
while a conservative activist called Kamala Harris a Antichrist
and held up a crucifix in front of the applauding crowd.
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A controversial meeting even before taking place
This Donald Trump meeting at Madison Square Garden was already controversial, even before it took place. As soon as the Republican candidate announced his intention to stand on the stage of this hall as part of his campaign, the event was quickly compared by many people to a Nazi rally held in this same arena in 1939.
On February 20, 1939, a few months before the start of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the German-American Bund, a pro-Hitler American organization, organized a meeting in Madison Square Garden.
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's former Democratic opponent in 2016, highlighted the similarities between the two events during an interview with CNN last week.
Donald Trump's campaign team reacted with fury to the accusations, calling Hillary Clinton's comments “disgusting.”
On Sunday, Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, also declared that there was a direct parallel
between the two events.
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Trump promises to make life affordable
In New York, the city where Donald Trump was born and where he made his fortune in real estate, before being convicted several times by civil and criminal courts, the billionaire promised to fix
that Kamala broke
during a meeting where, a rare occurrence in the campaign, he was introduced by his wife and former first lady of the United States Melania Trump, who has been discreet until now.
He also promised to make the cost of living affordable again in America
promising tax cuts, while inflation handicaps the economic record of the Democratic administration.
Kamala Harris will speak near the White House on Tuesday
The 60-year-old vice president, a former prosecutor, promised to draw up her own indictment
against Trump on Tuesday a stone's throw from the White House, at the same place where the latter had harangued his supporters on January 6, 2021 just before they attacked the Capitol.
I do this here because I think it is very important for the American people to think about who will occupy the Oval Office on January 20.
she explained in an interview on CBS Sunday, discussing the danger
that Donald Trump and his policies represent.
We must not wake up the day after the election and have regrets
she said on Sunday in Philadelphia.
