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Trump’s Madison Square Garden event begins with crude jokes and condemnations from critics

Donald Trump is finally getting his Madison Square Garden moment.

With just over a week to go before Election Day, the former president will take the stage Sunday at one of the country’s most famous locations, hosting a rally in his hometown to deliver the closing message of his campaign against the Democratic vice president Kamala Harris to transfer.

The opening of the meeting was a hodgepodge of Trumpism, with an extended clip from the 1970 film “Patton,” a painting of the American flag with Trump in front of it as “God Bless America” ​​blared from the speakers, and a standard -up- comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s routine that was full of lewd jokes, often invoking racist stereotypes of Latinos, Jews and black people.

‘I don’t know if you know this, but there is literally a floating waste island in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said Hinchcliffe, whose joke was immediately noticed by the campaign of Democrat Kamala Harris, who is competing with Trump to win over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states.

Several critics have ripped Hillary Clinton, the Democrat defeated by Trump eight years ago, for saying Trump would “re-enact” a pro-Nazi event at the Garden on Sunday in February 1939. One speaker, radio host Sid Rosenberg, used profanity to describe the former secretary of state.