Not-so warm Trump welcome in Allentown as Puerto Ricans swing away after offensive rally [View all]
(USA Today) Victor Martinez’s radio stations were flooded with calls. Yesenia Westerband’s food truck customers were buzzing about it. Guillermo Lopez’s Facebook feed was full of comments.
"Como Puertorriqueño te diré que eso no tiene manera de disculparse!!!" one listener commented on Martinez's show. "As a Puerto Rican there's no apology that will do."
As Donald Trump descended on Allentown, Pennsylvania Tuesday for a rally, remarks by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the former president’s Madison Square Guardian event Sunday calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” were rocketing through the community’s sizeable Puerto Rican population.
Martinez, Westerband and Lopez all are of Puerto Rican heritage and said Hinchcliffe’s comments were the talk of the majority Hispanic town, enflaming the community and likely moving votes.
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