- Title: Trump: 'Nobody loves the Latino and Puerto Rican communities more than I do'
- Date: 30th October 2024
- Summary: ***WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY*** (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “And I'm so proud that we're getting support from Latinos like never before. We're setting every record. Hispanics, Latinos. Nobody loves our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community more than I do. Nobody. It's interesting because I've done more for Puerto Rico than any president by far. Nobody close, I've provided historic funding and the hospital ship when we had, they were hit with a couple of really bad ones in a row. And we got the ship over there with thousands of rooms. Actually, it was amazing. A floating hospital, the biggest in the world. I will deliver the best future for Puerto Ricans and for Hispanic Americans.” TRUMP SPEAKING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “And Puerto Rico and itself will be very thankful. The whole Hispanic Latino community will be very, very thankful. And I appreciate the, you know, we have numbers that nobody's ever had before. Nobody's ever had these numbers. No Republicans even come close. You take a look at some of our Republicans that were a tiny fraction. I may get 50% of the vote. Nobody's even heard of that before. And more and more and more and more, we're just, we're doing the right thing. Incredible people, energetic, smart, great entrepreneurial people we appreciate. And we have a lot of them here tonight. Thank you very much. Latinos, Hispanics, Puerto Rico.” TRUMP SPEAKING U.S. SENATOR, MARCO RUBIO, GREETING TRUMP ON STAGE AND SHOWING HIM A PIECE OF PAPER (SOUNDBITE)(English) U.S. SENATOR, MARCO RUBIO, SAYING: “Well, I wasn't going to say anything, but I have breaking news for you, Mr. President. You may not have heard this. Just moments ago, Joe Biden stated that our supporters are garbage. Are garbage. He's talking about the Border Patrol. He's talking about nurses. He's talking about teachers. He's talking about everyday Americans who love their country and want to dream big again and support you, Mr. President. And I hope their campaign is about to apologize for what Joe Biden just said. We are not garbage. We are patriots. We love America. And thank you for running, Mr. President.”/ CROWD CHANTING "USA" (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “That's terrible. That's what it says. That's what it says.” TRUMP SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “Remember Hillary? She said deplorable and then she said irredeemable. Right. But she said deplorable. That didn't work out. Garbage, I think, is worse, right. But he doesn't know, please forgive him, please forgive him for he not knoweth what he said. These people, it's terrible, terrible, terrible to say a thing like that. But he really doesn't know. He really honestly, he doesn't. And I'm convinced that he likes me more than he likes Kamala.” TRUMP SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “They've embarrassed us. They've embarrassed us. Kamala has embarrassed us. She doesn't have what it takes. I'm asking you to dream big again, you've got to dream big. And this is going to be a very special time. It's going to be America's new golden age. We're going to make it a golden age. It seems impossible, doesn't it. Doesn't it seem impossible with these stupid people that we've had to put up with over the last four years.” TRUMP SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “Next Tuesday, you have to stand up and you have to tell Kamala that you've had enough. You're not going to take it anymore. 'Kamala, you're fired. Get out! Get out of here, you're fired. You're fired get the hell out of here. You were a terrible V.P., but you were even worse border czar.' How about our border czar? And Border Patrol last week endorsed me with the strongest endorsement they've ever given.” TRUMP SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “We've set an all time record in the early voting by the way. So if you have a mail in ballot, get that damn ballot in, please, immediately, because they've already started cheating in Lancaster. They've cheated. We caught them with 2600 votes. Now, we caught them, called 2600 votes. Think of this. Think of this.” TRUMP SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE)(English) FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “We're leading in every single swing state because normally Republicans, they like to vote at the end. No matter what you say, they like to vote at the end. They like to be there on Tuesday where they can watch it actually go into that beautiful, often corrupt machine. Now we're going to get it straightened out.”
- Embargoed: 13th November 2024 02:32
- Keywords: Biden Harris Marco Rubio Trump garbage
- Location: ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
- City: ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA002562829102024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS PROFANE LANGUAGE IN SHOT 14 AND 16
Republican President Donald Trump sought to move on from the racist remarks made by allies at his New York rally on Sunday (October 27) by thanking Latinos for their support at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Tuesday (October 29).
"Nobody loves our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community more than I do," Trump said, adding that he's done more more for Puerto Rico than any other president.
Trump did not comment on the remarks made by speakers at the Sunday event where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and disparaged Black Americans, Jewish people, Palestinians and Latinos.
President Joe Biden drew ire from Trump's campaign for remarks he made about the Sunday rally during a fundraising call on Tuesday.
According to a transcript posted by a White House spokesperson on X, Biden said: "the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's - his - his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it's un-American."
During Trump's rally in Allentown, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio stepped up to the stage and informed the former president and the crowd about Biden's comment.
Biden later posted on X, the social media site: "Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation."
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