‘The Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart offered some defense of cartoonist Tony Hinchcliffe, who called out racist jokes at a Donald Trump rally in New York on Sunday.
Hinchcliffe took rifts about Latinos, blacks, Jews and Palestinians and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” which sparked a wave of outrage and forced a rare denial from the Trump campaign.
“Now looking back, having a comedian attend a political rally a week before Election Day to roast a key voting demographic was probably not the best decision politically by the campaign,” Stewart said. “But to be fair, he’s really just doing what he does.”
Stewart made a similarly off-color joke by playing a clip of Hinchcliffe from a Tom Brady roast.
“Yeah, yeah, sure, it’s terrible, man, yeah.” Stuart said.
But the man laughed while saying that.
“I think there’s something wrong with me.” he said “I think he’s really funny. So I’m sorry. “I don’t know what to say to you.”
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Then he ran into the real problem with the rally, and it wasn’t the cartoon. This was a major event as President Trump announced large-scale deportations on his first day in office.
Stewart took a closer look at what this actually means in his Monday night monologue.
