Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes despite backlash: ‘Change your tampon’

Tony Hinchcliffe, a comic going through backlash after his remarks at Donald Trump’s latest Madison Sq. Backyard rally, will not be backing away from his racist jokes.

At Trump’s marketing campaign occasion in Manhattan on Sunday, he referred to as Puerto Rico “a floating island of rubbish in the course of the ocean” amongst different offensive feedback about Jewish and Black Individuals.

Tim Walz was amongst these criticising the feedback, branding the comic a “jackwad” and recalled Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria when it hit Puerto Rico in 2017.

“Does anyone keep in mind how [Trump] responded to [Hurricane] Maria in Puerto Rico? It was completely horrific,” Walz mentioned throughout a Twitch livestream on Sunday. “Down there, insulting individuals. Individuals in Puerto Rico are residents, they pay taxes, they’re within the army.”

However Hinchcliffe has now defended himself on X and hit again at Walz.

“These individuals haven’t any humorousness. Wild {that a} vice presidential candidate would take day trip of his ‘busy schedule’ to investigate a joke taken out of context to make it appear racist,” the co-host of Kill Tony podcast mentioned in a Sunday X submit.

“I like Puerto Rico and trip there. I made enjoyable of everybody…watch the entire set. I’m a comic Tim…is perhaps time to alter your tampon.”

The tampon remark refers to a reputation Republicans have given Walz — “Tampon Tim” — as a result of as Minnesota governor, he signed laws mandating public colleges within the state present menstrual merchandise in all bogs.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez swiftly responded to Hinchliffe’s newest remarks: “Can’t recover from this dude telling another person to alter tampons when he’s the one s****ing bricks in his Relies upon after realizing opening for a Trump rally and feeding red-meat racism alongside a throng of different bigots to a frothing crowd does, unironically, make you considered one of them.”

The New York Democrat added, talking to Hinchcliffe instantly by way of X: “You don’t ‘love Puerto Rico.’ You want ingesting piña coladas. There’s a distinction.”

Hinchcliffe has confronted important backlash within the wake of his efficiency and even the Trump marketing campaign has distanced itself from them.

In a press release, senior Trump adviser Danielle Alvarez claimed the joke “doesn’t mirror the views of President Trump or the marketing campaign.”

Florida Senator Rick Scott wrote on X that the “joke bombed for a motive.”

“It’s not humorous and it’s not true,” the senator continued. “Puerto Ricans are wonderful individuals and wonderful Individuals! I’ve been to the island many occasions. It’s a lovely place. Everybody ought to go to! I’ll all the time do no matter I can to assist any Puerto Rican in Florida or on the island.”

And Florida Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar mentioned she was “disgusted” by his Puerto Rico joke.