Trump speech today: Ex president holds Mar-a-Lago press conference

Finishing his remarks in Mar-a-Lago, Trump called his controversial rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday “an absolute love-fest.”

“The love in that room, it was breathtaking and you could have filled it many many time with the people that couldn’t get in,” he told supporters at a press conference on Tuesday.

“It was an absolute love-fest and it was my honor to be involved.”

The event has been heavily criticized following racist remarks by speakers including comedia Tony Hinchcliffe, who took aim at Black people, Jews, and described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”

It comes as Trump still faces backlash for alleged remarks he made praising Adolf Hitler. On Sunday, some media outlets pointed out that a Nazi rally had been held at MSG in 1939.

“[The Democrats] said ‘in 1939 the Nazis used Madison Sqaure Garden’… but how terrible to say because you know they’ve used MSG many times, many people have used it but nobody has had a crowd like that,” Trump said.

Donald Trump boasted that he had not had a day off in almost two months while campaigning, as the presidential race draws to a close.

“This is a campaign that has been long and hard. I’ve been on the road or campaiging for 58 straight days, I haven’t taken a day off – I’m proud of that,” he told supporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.

“And I won’t be taking one off, you can be sure I won’t be.”

The former president went on to again accuse Kamala Harris of taking several days off during her campaign, adding: “How the hell do you take off, you gotta work!”

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Bad Bunny posted a reel to Instagram in which he made reference to a racist joke about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

The rapper, who is from Puerto Rico, shared a video which celebrated the culture of his country – but captioned it “garbage.”

At Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York on Sunday, Hinchcliffe’s described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” prompting a fierce backlash.

Commentators pointed out that Donald Trump looked and sounded “exhuasted” during his remarks in Mar-a-Lago, to which he was over an hour late.

Trump once again accused Harris of running a “campaign of hate” as he continues to face fallout from his alleged remarks about Adolf Hitler, and his rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, in which comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist remarks about Puerto Ricans.

“Kamala will keep this misery as long as she can because that’s the only way she can get elected,” he told supporters at Mar-a-Lago.

Donald Trump kicked off his remarks at Mar-a-Lago by telling his supporters that things were going “very well” before launching into a typical attack on his Democratic rival.

The former president accused Kamala Harris of causing “war and chaos all over the world” and said that “bloodshed and squalor to our cities is common.”

“Everything is blowing up or getting ready to blow up,” he said. “No other person has caused so much destruction and death.”

“I’m running on a plan to save Amercia – we have no choice, it’s the greatest there is.”

A mysterious bronze-colored, tiki torch statue has popped up in Washington DC in a “tribute” to Donald Trump’s infamous comments calling white nationalists who marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 “very fine people.”

The satirical effigy – which sits only a few blocks from the White House on Freedom Plaza – was erected on Monday and depicts a large hand clutching a tiki torch, a symbol that has become negatively associated with white supremacy in the US.

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