Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Puerto Rico Archbishop Demands Trump Apologize Personally for Racist Rally Act
The Daily Beast ^ | October 29, 2024 | Matt Young

Posted on 10/29/2024 5:34:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

The “appalled” Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has demanded a direct apology from Donald Trump over comments made about the island territory by a comedian and podcaster at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.

Roberto Octavio González Nieves posted an open letter to Trump describing his shock and anger after hearing the comments made by Tony Hinchcliffe on stage.

The letter was posted in both English and Spanish.

“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 Sunday to an unimpressed crowd. He also joked about Black people carving watermelons instead of pumpkins for Halloween.

The Trump campaign immediately distanced itself in a statement to The Washington Post, saying, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

But for the Archbishop of San Juan, it wasn’t enough.

“I enjoy a good joke. However, humor has it’s limits,” Nieves wrote, adding he had consulted with other bishops of Puerto Rico after the rally. “It should not insult or denigrate the dignity and sacredness of people. Hinchcliffe’s remarks do not only provoke sinister laughter but hatred. These kinds of remarks do not have a place in society founded upon ”liberty and justice for all.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: archbishop; bostonbishop; ecofascist; jessejacksonally; mccarrickbuddy; phonybishop; puertorico; rally; robbedbostonchurch; sexualpredator; shutyourholeheretic; trump; wolfinsheepsclothing
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-99 next last
This is a stupid issue, but the truth is the media is like a dog with a bone. They don't have much of anything else to defend Kamala with, so they plan to hammer this until the election.
1 posted on 10/29/2024 5:34:21 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Trump: Elon Musk has the correct response.


2 posted on 10/29/2024 5:36:55 AM PDT by Loud Mime ("The Real Constitution" on Amazon. We are not right wing - we are constitutional centrists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

What idiot chose this comedian - or ANY comedian - to perform at a Trump rally? Why does Trump always have a group of idiots in his inner circle?


3 posted on 10/29/2024 5:36:58 AM PDT by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

An Archbishop for the Communist Pope!


4 posted on 10/29/2024 5:37:18 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

It’s a non-issue to most voters, however, why needlessly give ammo to your enemy. Someone should have vetted that content. Even if the jokes were funny, which I suppose is debatable on who you talk to, it’s still unnecessarily racial


5 posted on 10/29/2024 5:38:20 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is 100% manufactured fake outrage and anybody will an ounce of intelligence knows it.


6 posted on 10/29/2024 5:38:32 AM PDT by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

He’ll apologize after you political “archbishops” start paying taxes. American politics is “pay to play”. Ask the Clintoons, dummy.


7 posted on 10/29/2024 5:38:55 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hitler is the DemonRATS' great white hope. He's all the desperate Jamaican has left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

An arch bishop is a joke in a funny hat


8 posted on 10/29/2024 5:39:31 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Loud Mime

Which is?


9 posted on 10/29/2024 5:40:16 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia
I heard that the Trump Team had a made a statement about the comedian who made the "controversial" remark.

So I consider this case to be closed. The election is a week away from today. So this story is going to run out of gas.

10 posted on 10/29/2024 5:41:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: montag813

Ask George Lopez.


11 posted on 10/29/2024 5:43:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ignore them people and keep your eye on the ball.

Nobody is unaware of who they are voting for at this point. RATs just want you to think someone would want a really dumb commie and a pedo commie all over a joke told by some comedian at a rally.


12 posted on 10/29/2024 5:44:00 AM PDT by dforest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: montag813

Exactly. This whole thing stinks of a setup, the way this “comedian” spoke sounded very gay which to me suggests he’s democrat and somehow he was able to get himself on the roster and sabotage the rally with those “jokes”.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, the one about the blacks and watermelons, good God! WHO let that a-hole on? He very well may have cost Trump the election!!!

Trump and Kamala are virtually tied with Trump polling 1/10th of a point above Kamala. Just a tiny nudge is all it takes for him to lose

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris


13 posted on 10/29/2024 5:44:53 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

A simple FU would suffice.


14 posted on 10/29/2024 5:46:44 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Loud Mime
Trump: Elon Musk has the correct response.

OK- web search does not find (perhaps predictably) Musk's response.

What was it?

15 posted on 10/29/2024 5:47:28 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

You gotta think - what is the Archbishop to do? He’s got nothing but a million demorat Catholics beating down his door to take a position since it was a Catholic event.


16 posted on 10/29/2024 5:48:09 AM PDT by anton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh, get bent.


17 posted on 10/29/2024 5:49:27 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

They should invited the esteemed Archbishop to next cycle Al Smith dinner. Or send him the link to this years’ event. I wonder who told him to be shaken to his core?


18 posted on 10/29/2024 5:49:38 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hey, Democrat, leave those kids alone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

The problem here is that what the jerk said is absolutely true. I just read that Puerto Rico has run out of space for landfills. The truth hurts.


19 posted on 10/29/2024 5:50:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Tell the "Government" to let all their political prisoners go, NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Our bishops claim they cannot get into politics to sway votes....then they do that exact thing for the party if death.

Every single time in my lifetime and I am old!

If Jesus can make a weakest man into a bishop, he can do something better with you!


20 posted on 10/29/2024 5:50:51 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-99 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson