Stand-up comedian and host Tony Hinchcliffe said his joke about Puerto Rico last October helped the Donald Trump campaign because it grabbed headlines for more than a week just before the presidential election.
Hinchcliffe made countless news feeds when he joked about Puerto Rico being an “island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in October.
Democrats reacted as expected and subsequently compared Trump’s rally to a Nazi gathering filled with vitriol. For example, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed that’s what Republicans “think about you,” meaning Republicans believe that Americans are literal garbage.
On an episode of Bill Maher’s “Club Random” over the weekend, Hinchcliffe said the Trump team later thanked him for the happy distraction.
“When I was at the inauguration and everything, trust me,
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