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‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Slams Trump For Responding To Puerto Rico Backlash With Cuban Song
After a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," Trump shared a Cuban song.
Amid the fallout over Donald Trump ‘s recent rally, John Oliver is baffled at the former president’s apparent response to backlash from Puerto Ricans. On Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight, the comedian called attention to Trump’s recent attempt “to stem the damage” from roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe ‘s set at his Madison Square Garden campaign event, in which he called Puerto Rico a “ floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” “The United States of America is the greatest idea of humanity ever devised, a nation big enough to encompass all our dreams, strong enough to withstand any fracture or fissure between us, and fearless enough to imagine a future of possibilities.”
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