{"id":119936,"date":"2024-10-30T05:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119936"},"modified":"2024-10-30T05:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T22:14:45","slug":"trump-says-it-was-my-honor-to-be-involved-in-controversial-madison-square-garden-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119936","title":{"rendered":"Trump says it was \u2018my honor to be involved\u2019 in controversial Madison Square Garden rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uozuj1004h26p87tb3au96@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday defended his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/27\/politics\/trump-rally-madison-square-garden-vulgar-attacks\/index.html\">controversial Madison Square Garden rally<\/a>, telling supporters that the event was \u201can absolute lovefest\u201d and that it was \u201cmy honor to be involved.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq00073b6m8brv5ath@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The former president\u2019s comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/28\/politics\/harris-reaction-trump-madison-square-garden-rally\/index.html\">come amid backlash<\/a> over disparaging and divisive remarks at his Sunday event in New York City, which included a comedian describing Puerto Rico as a \u201cfloating island of garbage.\u201d Allies expressed worry the remarks could have political repercussions, especially given Puerto Ricans\u2019 growing influence in battleground states, with about half a million residing in Pennsylvania alone.\u00a0But Trump on Tuesday did not directly address the criticism of that remark.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq00083b6m180p205j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,\u201d Trump told a crowd of supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as he addressed criticism of his rally for the first time. \u201cThe love in that room \u2013 it was breathtaking. And you could have filled it many, many times with people that were unable to get in.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq00093b6midl1ipll@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He claimed that veteran politicians told him there had \u201cnever been an event so beautiful.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000a3b6m3v7f1kcu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt was like a lovefest, an absolute lovefest, and it was my honor to be involved,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uozuku00003b6mqhw2al3n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/28\/politics\/trump-offensive-rally-overshadowed-message\/index.html\">CNN reported Monday<\/a> that several of Trump\u2019s allies expressed dismay at the language used by speakers at the event, particularly the Puerto Rico remark, which set the tone for an evening of disparaging and divisive comments. The violent and\u00a0vulgar rhetoric\u00a0at the rally has prompted finger-pointing within the former president\u2019s inner circle and deep concern that his message was once again eclipsed by controversy.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uypa5m00003b6mcet0df7t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump on Tuesday tried to cast himself as an ally of the island, saying at a roundtable in Pennsylvania later in the day, \u201cNo president\u2019s done more for Puerto Rico than I have.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uyvtik00043b6m8xi0jmbz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He was responding to a woman who said she moved from Puerto Rico and told Trump, \u201cI want you to know that Puerto Rico stands behind you, and Puerto Rico loves you.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uysqk400023b6mj3ykddn3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump said: \u201cWell, we love it. I know it very well and we helped you through a lot of bad storms.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uyx6qd00073b6m9rlq2i2w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In 2017, after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and caused a humanitarian crisis, Trump was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/26\/politics\/trump-puerto-rico-response\/index.html\">criticized by both Democrats and Republicans<\/a>\u00a0for being slow to respond to the crisis. The Trump administration ultimately deployed a Navy hospital ship to the island.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2uyzzgb000a3b6m5em8qfbb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Puerto\u00a0Rico\u00a0Shadow Senator Zoraida\u00a0Buxo is expected to speak at Trump\u2019s rally Tuesday night in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to a campaign official.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000b3b6mzkpw7rnz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Speaking at Mar-a-Lago, Trump mocked Democrats for drawing parallels between his rally and a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said before the rally that Trump\u2019s campaign knows \u201cexactly what they\u2019re doing there.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000c3b6mecp5hctt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey started to say, \u2018Well, in 1939, the Nazis used Madison Square Garden,\u2019\u201d Trump said. \u201cHow terrible to say, right? Because you know, they\u2019ve used Madison Square Garden many times. Many people have used it. But nobody\u2019s ever had a crowd like that. And I tell you what, right now, nobody\u2019s ever had love like that. That was love in the room, and it was love for our country.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000d3b6m02sq5f6s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The comments about Puerto Rico by Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian and podcast host, were swiftly condemned by Harris\u2019 campaign, which used them in an advertisement portraying Trump as having \u201cabandoned\u201d the US territory in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/21\/us\/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-natural-disaster-human-catastrophe-weir\/index.html\">Hurricane Maria<\/a> in 2017. Trump\u2019s own campaign distanced the former president from the remark in a statement Sunday evening.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000e3b6ms4wtd55x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThese are fellow citizens he\u2019s talking about,\u201d former President Barack Obama said at a rally for Harris on Monday. \u201cHere in Philadelphia, they are your neighbors. They are your friends, they are your co-workers. Their kids go to school with your kids. These are Americans.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000f3b6mpe54dsev@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Puerto Rican superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/27\/politics\/bad-bunny-kamala-harris-puerto-rico\/index.html\">Bad Bunny signaled support<\/a> for Harris moments after Hinchcliffe\u2019s remarks, sharing a clip on social media of the vice president\u2019s plans for the island.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000g3b6mqd7ka4kb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Republicans have sought to brush off the backlash. Trump\u00a0said Tuesday that he didn\u2019t hear Hinchcliffe\u2019s comments\u00a0and that he didn\u2019t know who\u00a0the comedian\u00a0was, despite the fact that Hinchcliffe kicked off\u00a0the high-profile campaign rally.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up3ok8000u3b6mgl9sf0qn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI don\u2019t know him; someone put him up there. I don\u2019t know who he is,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0told ABC News.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up3n1s000s3b6m5m242f7f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, on Monday described criticism of the joke about Puerto Rico as a \u201cfake outrage cycle.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000h3b6m99w4hcgx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cA comedian told a joke, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s news worth making. I think what is news is that Americans can\u2019t afford their groceries because Kamala Harris has been a terrible vice president,\u201d Vance said at an event in Racine, Wisconsin.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000i3b6mf7vv7i8u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u2019s comments Tuesday downplaying the controversy over his Madison Square Garden rally came at a campaign event in which he criticized Harris and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> for their administration\u2019s handling of the economy and border security.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000j3b6m0ocuq91k@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe\u2019re going to fight like hell for the next seven days,\u201d Trump said, as the crowd chanted \u201cfight,\u201d the word he\u2019d shouted moments after surviving an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/14\/politics\/timeline-trump-rally-shooting-dg\/index.html\">assassination attempt<\/a> in Pennsylvania in July.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2up06oq000k3b6mb59hbkod@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>CNN\u2019s Kate Sullivan, Kristen Holmes, Steve Contorno, Kit Maher, Priscilla Alvarez and Jack Forrest contributed to this report.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/29\/politics\/donald-trump-madison-square-garden\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his controversial Madison Square Garden rally, telling supporters that the event was \u201can absolute lovefest\u201d and that it was \u201cmy honor to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119936\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}