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Aubrey Plaza Blasts Trump Rally Comic’s “Garbage” Joke About Puerto Rico: “Disgusting Remark”


The actress was speaking at a Wall Street Journal event.

The comedian was a warm up act for Trump himself, and called Puerto Rico a “floating pile of garbage.” He also used racist tropes about Latinos, Blacks, Jews and Palestinians. Thankfully, my sweet abuelita wasn’t here to hear that disgusting remark, but if she was alive today, I think she would say, ‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go f— yourself. Earlier in the day, Trump also insisted that the rally was a “love fest,” even though other speakers compared Kamala Harris to a prostitute and referred to her as the “antichrist.”

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