Aubrey Plaza Gets Honest About Trump Comedian’s ‘Disgusting’ Puerto Rico Comment

Aubrey Plaza has rightly joined the rising refrain of people that discovered comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s self-proclaimed joke about Puerto Rico completely offensive throughout his latest look at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Not solely did Plaza categorical her disgust, however she additionally evoked her abuelita’s (grandmother’s) spirit to exclaim that she would even have one thing to say about it.

Whereas talking on the WSJ Journal Innovator Awards, by way of Rolling Stone, Plaza responded to Hinchcliffe’s offensive Puerto Rico remark wherein he mentioned, “There may be actually a floating island of rubbish in the course of the ocean proper now. I believe it’s referred to as Puerto Rico.” Plaza’s response echoed the feelings of many Puerto Ricans and others who discovered his joke out of line and offensive.

“I simply needed to in a short time reply to the racist joke that was made at that Trump rally about Puerto Rico, the place most of my household is from. Fortunately, my candy abuelita wasn’t right here to listen to that disgusting comment. But when she was alive right this moment, I believe she would say, ‘Tony Hinchcliffe, go f*** your self’, and sure, The Wall Avenue Journal can quote me on that.”

Different Puerto Rican Celebrities Got here Out Towards Tony Hinchcliffe’s Joke

Hinchcliffe made a number of jokes that have been geared toward Latino voters and immigration, however the Puerto Rico “rubbish” remark has been the one which has garnered probably the most consideration and outrage from many who noticed the rally held at Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday. It additionally sparked many Puerto Rican celebrities to get louder concerning their assist of Kamala Harris for President. Jennifer Lopez, who doesn’t usually interact in politics, used the energy of her 250 million followers on Instagram and her 44 million followers on the X platform to indicate her assist for the Harris marketing campaign. The actress and entertainer shall be talking in assist of Harris on Thursday, and he or she shared a video of the presidential hopefuls’ assist of Puerto Rico wherein Harris mentioned:

“I’ll always remember what Donald Trump did and what he didn’t do when Puerto Rico wanted a caring and competent chief. He deserted the island, tried to dam assist after back-to-back devastating hurricanes, and supplied nothing greater than paper towels and insults.”

Additionally taking to their social media accounts to submit their related disgust have been different Puerto Rican celebrities, together with Dangerous Bunny, Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, and Ricky Martin. All of them echoed related feedback and when some extra ignorant voices tried to counsel that they weren’t U.S. residents, many on social media rightfully corrected them by stating that Puerto Rico has a inhabitants of a reported 3.2 million U.S. residents. This example has solely made their voices even louder because the presidential election attracts nearer.

For his or her half, a number of members of the GOP have condemned Hinchcliffe’s feedback, however Trump’s marketing campaign and the convicted former president himself have tried to distance themselves from it with out admitting what was mentioned was shameful and grossly inappropriate. Throughout an interview with Sean Hannity, the previous president mentioned he didn’t know Hinchcliffe or something about what he mentioned on stage at his MSG rally. Trump mentioned, “I don’t know him; somebody put him up there. I don’t know who he’s,” and he made no strikes to disavow the remarks instantly. As for Hinchcliffe, he defended his comment on X by responding to Vice Presidential hopeful Tim Walz, who additionally put down the joke, by saying:

“These folks haven’t any humorousness. Wild {that a} vice chairman candidate would take outing of his ‘busy schedule’ to investigate a joke taken out of context to make it appear racist. I like Puerto Rico and trip there. I made enjoyable of everybody…watch the entire set. I’m a comic Tim…is likely to be time to vary your tampon.”