In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, Major Puerto Rican stars with tens of millions of social media followers have been throwing their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, singer Nicky Jam, who endorsed Trump last month, renounced his support for the former president in a video to his supporters, citing the joke a comedian made at the rally about Puerto Rico being an ‘island of garbage.’ Adrian Carrasquillo, a national political reporter who writes about our increasingly Latino America, talks about the ongoing fallout from the MSG rally within the Puerto Rican community. And in headlines: Billionaire Elon Musk says Trump’s economic plans will come with some ‘hardship,’ Republicans revive talk of repealing Obamacare, and the U.S. Supreme Court says Virginia can keep purging its voter rolls.
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The backlash to Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally has been fierce.
As I've talked about on the show, it featured a cavalcade of offensive comments, from jokes about how cheap Jewish people are to a riff about how Latinos just have too many babies.
But what stuck was a joke about how Puerto Rico is a floating island of garbage.
Major Puerto Rican artists with tens of millions of social media followers have since thrown their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
Chief among them Bad Bunny and on Wednesday, Nicky Jam walked back his previous endorsement of Trump.
In a video to his 40 million social media followers.
Trump.
He'S saying there never in my life did I think that a month later a comedian was going to criticize my land and speak badly about my land.
And for this I renounce my support of Donald Trump and have stepped aside from any political position.
But three days after the rally, Trump still will not apologize.
In fact, he doesn't know anything about it.