Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said people have to “stop getting offended at every little thing,” when asked about the comment made by Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian and podcast host, equating Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.”
“It’s telling that Kamala Harris’ closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump’s voters are Nazis, and you should get really pissed off about a comedian telling a joke – that is not the message of a winning campaign, and most importantly, it’s not the message of a person who’s fit to be the president of the United States of America,” Vance told a reporter who asked about the remark in Wausau, Wisconsin.
“I haven’t seen the joke. I, you know, maybe, maybe it’s a stupid racist joke, as you said,” Vance continued. “Maybe it’s not. I haven’t seen it. I’m not going to comment on the specifics of the joke, but I think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m just, I’m so over it.”
Vance said he recently rejected someone’s attempts to encourage him to use a joke from comedian George Lopez against Harris.
The remark in question: At the rally Sunday in New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where Vance also spoke, Hinchcliffe said, “There’s a lot going on, like, I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
