The controversial pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchcliffe is finally speaking out in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory.
Hinchcliffe — who became infamous after offending Puerto Ricans by calling the US territory a ‘floating island of garbage’ at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden — returned with his first posts on X (formerly Twitter) after avoiding posting since October 27.
Although he didn’t share any of this own thoughts following Trump’s win, he alluded to the widespread criticism he received — including from many Puerto Ricans and Latin people in general — from his infamous stand-up set.
The 40-year-old comic reposted an Axios article reporting that an exit poll found that 46 percent of Latin voters had cast a ballot for Trump on or before Tuesday, November 5.
Hinchcliffe later returned on Sunday to the social media platform — which is owned by major Trump booster Elon Musk — to reshare a DailyMail.com article detailing how Trump managed to flip the US county with the highest percentage of Puerto Rican voters.
Pro-Trump Tony Hinchcliffe, 40, has broken his silence on X for the first time since Donald Trump emerged victorious in the US presidential election; pictured October 27 at Madison Square Garden
Hinchcliffe reposted an Axios article reporting that an exit poll found that 46 percent of Latin voters had cast a ballot for Trump; Trump is pictured (R) on January 6, 2024, in Iowa. Joe Biden (R) is pictured November 4, 2023, in Delaware
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Hinchcliffe doesn’t appear to have made any other comments on the election — or anything else — since his last posts in late October.
Following his performance at Madison Square Garden, which included a line about how Latin people ‘loved making babies,’ Democrats and liberals seized on the jokes as a way to build support from voters abandoning Trump over the comments.
Other advisers and pundits on the right also reportedly expressed concern that Hinchcliffe’s jokes could harm them with Latin voters.
Hinchcliffe’s remarks turned out not to have been poorly planned off-the-cuff remarks, but were instead jokes he had workshopped ahead of the rally.
The Kill Tony host had tried out some of his jokes, including the ‘floating island of garbage’ line at NYC’s comedy club The Stand on, according to NBC News, which had a producer in the audience.
The joke reportedly got almost no laughs from the crowd, causing Hinchcliffe to get defensive and say that the jokes would be better received ‘tomorrow at the rally.’
A Florida county with the largest Puerto Rican community in the U.S. flipped red for Donald Trump for the first time in two decades.
The Trump-Vance ticket received 56.1 percent of the vote in Osceola County, Florida in Tuesday’s election. The area just south of Orlando is deeply blue and has a 56 percent Hispanic population with the largest subset being of Puerto Rican descent.
Osceola County, Florida, which has been deeply blue for two decades, is composed of 56 percent Latin voters, of which people of Puerto Rican descent make up the greatest share.
Hinchcliffe also reposted a DailyMail.com article on how Trump managed to flip the US county with the most Puerto Ricans, after it voted for Democratic presidential candidates for two decades; pictured October 27 in MSG
Advisers and pundits on the right initially worried that Hinchcliffe’s anti-Puerto Rican jokes could harm the Republican candidate with Latin voters; pictured with Lara Trump (L) and Melania Trump (R) on November 6 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Osceola County, Florida has the largest Puerto Rican population by percentage
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The county as not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, when it helped to elect George W. Bush.
But after Hillary Clinton won the county by 24.8 percent in 2016, Joe Biden won it by significantly less — 13.8 percent — and Trump has now won the county by around 13 points, according to Florida’s election watch tracker.
Trump’s win is even more astounding considering there are 20,257 more registered Democrats than registered Republicans in Osceola, according to the local supervisor of elections website.
There are, however, 86,373 registered independents, which is just 325 more than the amount of Democrats in the county.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was the opener at Trump’s midtown Manhattan rally just over a weekend before the 2024 Election day.
Liberal media was ready to declare Trump’s campaign — and Hinchcliffe’s career — ᴅᴇᴀᴅ after backlash ensued in the Hispanic community over the joke he made about Puerto Rico.
But it turns out that Trump performed much better than expected with this key voting demographic.
According to a CNN exit poll, Trump received 45 percent of the Hispanic vote.
In every single state — even those that voted blue this year — Trump improved his support among the US electorate from 2020.
Democrats hoped Donald Trump lost support among the Hispanic community after Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage’ at the Madison Square Garden rally just over a week before Election Day; seen in 2017 in Pasadena, Calif.
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A Daily Mail analysis looks at the 116,839 Puerto Ricans living in Osceola, which makes it the county with the largest population per capita of Americans of either Puerto Rican descent or naturalized after moving to mainland at 26.69 percent.
And many counties that have voted blue in every election in recent years, the former president was able to gain back support to the right.
Florida was once a swing state but is now solidly red, a fact that was further cemented in Tuesday’s election.
Besides flipping Osceola, Trump also turned Miami-Dade red in the 2024 election by an 11 point margin of victory, 55 percent to 44 percent. In 2020, Biden won by 7 percentage points.
