It comes after a racist comments about Puerto Rico at his New York rally.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening was returning to a Hispanic-majority town in eastern Pennsylvania after a comedian at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend sparked controversy by making racist jokes about Latinos, including calling Puerto Rico a « floating island of garbage. »
Trump’s rally is scheduled to take place in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city of more than 125,000 people where the Hispanic population makes up 55% of its total, according to the U.S. Census data, with much of them being Puerto Ricans.
Among the scheduled speakers beforehand at the Allentown rally is Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, whom Trump has enlisted to court Latino voters across the country.
His second campaign stop of the day in Pennsylvania, after a roundtable in Drexel Hill, where the population is overwhelmingly white – the Allentown visit is an opportunity for the former president to court Hispanics and more specifically Puerto Ricans after Hispanic groups on both sides of the aisle called the racist jokes made at the New York rally « derogatory », « offensive », and « disrespectful. »
The comments in question were made by controversial comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during pre-programming earlier Sunday afternoon, including explicit comments about how Latinos « love making babies.
