The takeaway in this story is the same lesson in all of the coffee boy stories, and that is that Donald Trump is only too happy to throw anything at all at the wall and pray that it sticks. When it doesn’t stick and flies back and hits him in the face, then his next ploy is to disavow that he even knew the agent of his own chaos. This we have seen over and over again, unfortunately. Roast comic Tony Hinchcliffe, of “floating island of garbage” fame is the latest to wear the coffee boy mantle.
Why it matters: Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial remarks have drawn bipartisan backlash, and Trump frequently claims not to know people in his orbit when they become political liabilities.
- People Trump claims not to have known include rapper Lil Jon, who was a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice; Prince Andrew; Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who was part an effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Biden; Gordon Sondland, who Trump appointed ambassador to the European Union; and Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s short-lived White House communications director.
Flashback:Â Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” during his speech Sunday night.
- His comments angered Puerto Ricans across the country and the Trump campaign was quick to try and distance itself from his remarks.
- “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,” Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said in a statement earlier this week.
What he’s saying: “I don’t know him, someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News’ Rachel Scott Tuesday.
- Despite the growing controversy surrounding Hinchcliffe’s remarks, Trump insisted that he hadn’t seen his comments.
- When asked what he thought of Hinchcliffe’s comments, Trump reiterated that he hadn’t heard them, per ABC News.
Zoom out: Puerto Ricans are a critical part of the Latino electorate across the country and large Puerto Rican communities exist in key swing states like North Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Trump had the Madison Square Garden rally in order to demonstrate his power. All of his negative, hate-mongering speakers were there for the same reason. Stephen Miller, not surprisingly, quoted Hitler. “America is for Americans and Americans only.” Adolf Hitler said, “Germany is for Germans and Germans only.”
Trump was fine with all of it. He’s not fine with the blow back. This illustrates a key aspect of who Trump is and how he operates: he has no idea where the lines of decency are drawn nor does he care. He knows no bounds. He only starts to backpedal when it is pointed out to him that he has misstepped himself egregiously. This is the reason this man cannot return to power. He simply doesn’t know where the lines are drawn and that is a fatal flaw in anybody but especially a United States president.
That’s a nice picture of Trump supporters in one of their famous ‘Flotillas For Trump’.
Was he a coffee boy or a covfefe boy?
there’s always the Greek & Polish he can sh** on
I don’t know about him crapping on those with Greek ancestry, but this grandson of Poles who dealt with KKK anti-immigrant terrorism in 1910’s SW Pennsylvania and saw closeup his gutter-level behavior and shady business practices in the NYC I grew up in is and always has been dead set against his presidential ambitions, having voted against him all three times he has run (we voted yesterday).
‘Nuf said.
Trump loves shitting on whoever of the moment and then do a fake apology as he smirks.