All the racist, hateful things said at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden

The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday. 

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden, where speakers made racist, hateful, and vulgar remarks about Latinos, Black people, and Jews, and compared Kamala Harris to a prostitute, the “Antichrist,” and “the devil.” 

The six-hour rally, which bore an uncanny resemblance to the infamous pro-Nazi rally held at the Garden in Feb. 1939, was kicked off by stand-up comic Tony Hinchcliffe, who wasted little time before making a slew of racist remarks.

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe said.

Despite the fact that Hinchcliffe opened the event, Trump’s senior campaign adviser Danielle Alvarez said in a statement that his “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Hinchcliffe also “joked” that Latinos “love making babies.”

“They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country,” he said.

At another point, Hinchcliffe pointed to a Black man in the crowd and claimed that he had hosted a Halloween party the night before.

“We had fun, we carved watermelons together. It was awesome!” he said.

Hinchcliffe also insinuated that Palestinians are violent, and that Jewish people are “cheap,” leaning into harmful stereotypes.

“You know Palestinians will throw rocks every time,” he said. “And also we know Jews have a hard time throwing that paper.” 

Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris was also the subject of sexist and racist remarks.

David Rem, a sanitation worker billed as Trump’s childhood friend, although it’s been reported that the two only met two weeks ago, called Harris “the devil” and referred to her as the “Antichrist.”

Businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd that Harris is “the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history,” despite the fact that she’s the only presidential candidate in US history to serve in all three branches of government.

Cardone also insinuated that Harris is a prostitute while insulting President Joe Biden.

“She makes her boss look competent. She’s a fake. I’m not here to invalidate her,” he said. “She’s a fake, a fraud. She’s a pretender. Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country. They will.”

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Harris as well, claiming she has a “made-up ethnicity” (the vice president is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father). 

Carlson said that Harris was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”

Carlson also invoked the Great Replacement Theory during his speech, which states that the white race is under threat of extinction at the hands of minorities, and that the Immigration Act of 1965 sought to turn middle-class whites into a powerless minority. 

Similarities to 1939 Nazi rally

Social and traditional media alike has been set ablaze by Trump’s rally, with many pointing out the glaring similarities between it and a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden on Feb. 20, 1939.

“My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “What you saw last night is a divisive America. That’s race baiting. It’s all the things that we were doing in the ‘30s and ‘40s.”

Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump known for his vicious anti-immigrant policies, said during his speech that “America is for Americans and Americans only,” evoking an old Nazi slogan: “Germany for the Germans – foreigners out.” 

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been promised a position within the Trump administration should he be elected next week, pulled up to the event in a full black getup that he described as “dark, gothic MAGA.” The hat he was wearing, however, did not feature the normal font seen on Trump’s red “Make America Great Again” caps. Instead, Musk opted for the Fraktur font, popularized during the early years of the Nazi regime.

By the time Trump actually took the stage, the crowd was fired up and ready for more. 

In recent days, the former president has said that one of the gravest threats that America faces is “the enemy from within,” again invoking Nazi language; Jewish people were called “enemies of the state” during Nazi rule.

“When I say ‘the enemy from within,’ the other side goes crazy,” Trump said on Sunday, mocking his critics.

The rally came just days after Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, retired US Marine Corps general John Kelly, issued a warning for the American people: the Republican presidential nominee meets the definition of a fascist, and while in office, wished he had obedient generals like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did, and even said Hitler “did some good things.”

Trump’s campaign has denied that he ever said this, calling the reporting “absolutely false,” but in an interview with The Atlantic, Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.

“Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals,” Kelly recalled asking Trump.

“Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals,” Kelly said Trump responded.

During a CNN Town Hall last week, Vice President Harris was asked about Kelly’s comments. She called them “a 911 call to the American people.” 

“We must take very seriously those folks who knew him best,” she said, referring to the numerous former Trump advisers who have come out against him. 

“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” host Anderson Cooper asked the vice president.

“Yes, I do. Yes, I do,” she replied.

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