Puerto Rican Archbishop Calls On Trump For Direct Apology: ‘Humor Has Its Limits’
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The chair of Puerto Rico’s Republican Party also said he would not support the former president without an apology over a comedian's insults at a Trump rally.
The archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, called Monday for former President Donald Trump to personally apologize for a series of racist remarks made by a comedian at his campaign rally in New York City.
The Trump campaign is facing yet another political crisis with just over a week to go until the election after far-right comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during an opening set at the former president’s event Sunday at Madison Square Garden. The comments — which also included tropes about Black Americans, Latinos in general and Jews — were quickly trashed as racist and offensive.
“I enjoy a good joke,” the archbishop, Roberto O. González Nieves, wrote in a letter posted to Facebook. “However, humor has its limits. It should not insult or denigrate the dignity and sacredness of people. Hinchcliffe’s remarks do not only provoke sinister laughter but hatred.”
“It is not sufficient for your campaign to apologize,” the archbishop added. “It is important that you, personally, apologize for these comments.”
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