Donald Trump’s Rally in MSG Went Exactly How You Would Expect.

The racism was out of control.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readOct 28, 2024
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As we all know, former President Donald Trump and his campaign decided to do a rally in none other than Madison Square Garden. A site that just so happens to be in one of the most left leaning, pro-Democrat states in the country. So, why there? I mean, it seems too convenient to be a coincidence that he wore the colors of the Proud Boys the day before, and that he held the rally in a place where all the Neo Nazis in the country will connect it to the pro-Nazi rally held there during the days of Hitler.

All that said, given the background I suppose it should come as no surprise to any of us that it was about as racist and disgusting as one probably expected. If not more so.

Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, and Michael Gold with The New York Times wrote:

“A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” then mocked Hispanics as failing to use birth control, Jews as cheap and Palestinians as rock-throwers, and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to watermelon.

Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.” A third called her “the Antichrist.” And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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