The Republican candidate argued that outgoing US President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris – Trump’s Democratic opponent in the November 5 election – have destroyed the country.
“You have destroyed our country. We’re not going to put up with it anymore. Okay, you’re fired! Get out of here!” Trump said to cheers from his supporters.
Trump filled Madison Square Garden as the “savior” of America
New York’s Madison Square Garden was filled yesterday with red-hatted supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who emerged as the savior of a US “ruined” by Kamala Harris, at a campaign rally marred by insults. at the expense of immigrants and especially Puerto Ricans.
Trump, a New York celebrity for decades, wanted to take this opportunity, in the 20,000-capacity “most famous stadium in the world,” to present his final arguments against his rival Kamala Harris, although the last time the New York state supported Republican candidate was in 1984.
Trump has talked at length about his plans to end illegal immigration and deport immigrants he has called “evil and bloodthirsty criminals.”
“On the first day (of my presidency) I will begin the largest deportation program in American history,” the billionaire said.
“I will save every city and town that has been overrun and taken over” by immigrants, he explained to cheers from the crowd.
Trump called Harris “a person of low intelligence”, accusing her of “ruining the country (…) Kamala is fired, go!”
The 78-year-old former president has pledged to ban sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants who refuse to cooperate with federal authorities and implement immigration policy. He also promised to invoke a 1798 “enemy alien” law and deport all immigrants with criminal records.
A long list of speakers, from former wrestler Hulk Hogan and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr. opened the event.
Some made racist and misogynist comments to warm up the audience.
Giuliani, Trump’s former personal attorney, falsely claimed that Harris was “on the side of the terrorists” in the war between Israel and Hamas.
From the stage, a Trump adviser, hard-right Stephen Miller, stressed that “America is for Americans and only Americans,” while David Reb, 60, a staunch Trump supporter who works at a cleaning company and lives in Queens, called Harris the “antichrist” and held a crucifix in front of the cheering crowd.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe quipped that Hispanics “like to make babies” and called Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean, “a garbage island floating in the middle of the ocean.”
Danielle Alvarez, an adviser to Trump’s campaign, told Reuters the joke about Puerto Rico “does not reflect the views of President Trump or his campaign.”
Puerto Ricans are US citizens, but cannot vote in US elections. However, millions of Puerto Ricans who have moved to the mainland can vote, and a large community of them lives in the bipartisan state of Pennsylvania.
Earlier yesterday, Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city, and posted a video on social media in which she pledged to “invest in the future of Puerto Rico.”
In 2016, Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton, accused him of “re-enacting” a pro-Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden in 1939, before the outbreak of World War II.
The Republican’s critics have long accused him of bolstering white supremacists by using racist language.
“Today this is Donald Trump’s home,” Hulk Hogan said yesterday. He also rejected accusations that the Republican is a fascist: “I don’t see a Nazi here,” he said.
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is backing Trump’s re-election through the X platform and his vast fortune, was welcomed by the crowd chanting: “Elon, Elon.” “That positive energy is the essence of America,” he replied.
Trump claimed in his speech that Americans are worse off today than they were four years ago. He announced new policy to provide tax relief for those who care for a parent or other family member.
In fact, he boasted about his foreign policy during his presidency and emphasized that while he is president he will not start new wars. Although he added that if a war breaks out between the US and China, “we will tear them apart.”
Polls show Harris and Trump neck and neck in the swing states that will decide the outcome of the presidential election.
More than 38 million people have already voted across the country.
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