VICTORY LAP

Tony Hinchcliffe Gloats Over Trump’s Latino Support After MSG Rally Insults

The comedian’s joke about Puerto Rico threatened to hurt Donald Trump with Latino voters just ahead of Election Day, but an exit poll showed it didn’t.

Tony Hinchcliffe, the controversial right-wing comedian who referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” during Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, has broken his relative silence to take a subtle victory lap. Hinchcliffe, 40, recently reshared an Axios article to his X account which revealed Trump was backed by 46 percent of Latino voters in his comfortable election win on Tuesday. Before Election Day, those in MAGA world were concerned the insulting “joke”—as well as a comment where Hinchcliffe said Latinos “loved making babies”—would hurt Trump with Hispanic voters at the ballot box. However, as the Axios article noted, Latinos voted for Trump at record levels for a GOP candidate, with the president-elect surpassing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush to win the biggest share of the national Latino vote. Prior to sharing the Axios piece, Hinchcliffe had not posted since the evening of the rally on Oct. 27. Hinchcliffe also took to Instagram on Sunday to share the date of the next White House correspondents’ dinner, suggesting he might be interested in hosting the event.

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