Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Refuses To Apologize For Joke Referring To Puerto Rico As A ‘Floating Island Of Garbage’ During Trump Rally

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Refuses To Apologize For Joke Referring To Puerto Rico As A ‘Floating Island Of Garbage’ During Trump Rally

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe doesn’t see anything wrong with his controversial joke referring to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

On the latest episode of his podcast “Kill Tony,” recorded the day after he told the joke at a Donald Trump rally back in October, Hinchcliffe reacted to the backlash, stating:

“Last night I gave a speech…It was a speech about free speech, believe it or not. I am currently under attack,”

He continued:

“I referenced Puerto Rico, which currently has a landfill problem in which all of their landfills are filled to the brim. I am the only person who knew about this, unfortunately. With that said, I just want to say that I love Puerto Ricans, they’re very smart people — they’re smart, they’re street smart, they’re smart enough to know when they’re being used as political fodder. Right now that is happening.”

 

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Making it clear he feels no remorse about the situation, Hinchcliffe furthered:

“I apologize to absolutely nobody…Not to the Puerto Ricans, not to the whites, not to the Blacks, not to the Palestinians, not to the Jews, and not to my own mother, who I made fun of during the set. Nobody clipped that. No headlines about me making fun of my own mother.”

He later acknowledged that a Trump rally might not have been “the best f***ing place to do this set at,” adding:

“But in any matter, to the mainstream media and to anybody trying to slander me online: That’s what I do, and that’s never going to change.”

What did you think of Hinchcliffe’s joke?