'It was very scary': Morning Joe panel highlights worst parts of Trump's NYC rally

'It was very scary': Morning Joe panel highlights worst parts of Trump's NYC rally
An image of U.S. Presidential candidate and Former U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed before his rally at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, U.S., October 26, 2024. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski condemned the "unbelievably degrading" statements made by Donald Trump and his allies at a rally in New York City.

Speaker after speaker used crude, hateful and violent rhetoric at the packed event Sunday at Madison Square Garden, and "Morning Joe" panelists expressed their disgust — and rejected Trump campaign statements that tried to distance itself from some of the speakers.

Among the speakers was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe drew laughs by referring to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."

"I think those comments that were made by the comedian really cut through about Puerto Rico," said Brzezinski. "So unbelievably degrading this event was to immigrants and to human beings who live in this country as free American citizens or legal immigrants."

The Rev. Al Sharpton pointed out that no following speakers, including the former president, criticized that or other offensive remarks.

"What was so striking to me is that this comedian said this early in the night and no one got up, including Donald Trump, and denounced what he said," Sharpton said.

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"There was a statement released later by the campaign. How do you let someone get on the stage and say something like that and no one refutes it, as people in the audience laughed and cheered about it? I got calls all night because we work very closely with Puerto Rican leadership. It reminded a lot of them of when Donald Trump was president and there was a real big storm that had destroyed part of Puerto Rico. He went down and threw towels at them, so it was consistent with what he said."

"But let's also go to what Donald Trump himself said last night, that some of the Black men groups that I've been debating about why they can't be with Trump, he said, 'I could be laying out in the beach with my white, white skin getting tanned,'" Sharpton added. "I mean, this is Donald Trump's mouth saying this.

"So I said to those on the fence, this is not a real racial signal? My pretty white, beautiful white, white skin? Donald Trump said this last night at his homecoming, so when people said that this was like reminiscent of the supremacist rally in 1939, the Nazis – I think that it lived up to that."

"It was very scary," Brzezinski added.

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President Donald Trump launched a vicious attack on Rob Reiner Monday following the shocking death of the legendary film director and his wife on Sunday, which law enforcement is investigating as a homicide.

“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”

Reiner was also a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party and a vocal advocate for human rights and progressive social causes, as well as a fierce critic of Trump. His career in film spanned several decades, and saw him direct countless critically-acclaimed films such as 1987’s “The Princess Bride” and 1992’s “A Few Good Men.”


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Wall Street executive Kenny Polcari was called out on Fox Business Monday over a potential “Freudian slip” that left him saying "every House seat" was "up for sale" in the Midterm elections — before correcting himself.

Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo was raging about “Democrats” Sunday, accusing them of wanting “chaos all the time” around President Donald Trump’s agenda, a remark that Polcari – chief market strategist at the investment and wealth management firm Slatestone Wealth – concurred with.

“I think you're right, you hit the nail on the head, they want chaos all around as we're coming into a midterm election year,” Polcari said. “So I expect there's gonna be a lot of chaos, at least in the first half of the year, while we get off the ground. Every House seat is up for sale -- I mean…”

Smiling, Bartiromo immediately singled out his phrasing, referring to election contests as being congressional seats available to the highest bidder.

“Just to be clear, I don't know that they're up for sale,” Bartiromo said.

“Well,” Polcari said, attempting to correct himself. “Up for grabs.”

“Freudian slip, or not?” Bartiromo asked, laughing alongside Polcari.

Slatestone Wealth, where Polcari serves as chief market strategist, manages more than $1 billion in assets. Polcari is also the founder and managing partner at Kace Capital Advisors, a financial services consulting firm, and resides in Palm Beach, Florida.

An early priority in President Donald Trump's second term could trigger a red-state revolt against Republican candidates, a report warned Monday.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency imposed drastic cuts to public land agencies that are hitting rural conservative communities across the western United States, with an estimated 5,200 workers terminated from the agencies that manage the 640 million acres of federal public lands and even deeper cuts expected next year. They threaten to wreck communities that rely on those lands, reported Politico.

“The federal payroll from the [Bureau of Land Management], the Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service in these small rural communities is huge," said Steve Ellis, chair of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees. "It helps pay taxes. It helps keep the little hospital open. Federal employees have kids in the schools where the funding from the state depends on the number of students.”

Ranchers and farmers rely on public lands for their livelihood, outfitters, guides and hunters regularly use them for sport and sustenance, and forestry, timber and sawmill workers ply their trades in wildfire mitigation and lumber, and support for adequately staffed public lands and continued public access enjoy broad support across the rural west.

“Both the rich and the poor get to use public lands. I believe every piece of public land in the West should be able to be accessed by public land hunters," said 57-year-old Terry Zink, a third-generation houndsman who hunts big game. "The wildlife belongs to we the people.”

Zink told Politico that he's heard of fellow hunters who had to cut their own way onto trails due after Forest Service trail crews were sent home by DOGE, and he's concerned about wildlife management after agency scientists were also cut.

"You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink said.

Conservation issues are highly important to Montana voters like Zink, and national Republicans risk awakening a sleeping giant if they continue cutting budget for land management or selling off public lands – as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) added as a provision to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill before other GOP senators from Montana and Idaho got that measure removed.

“Hollowing out staffing, cutting budgets, changing priorities — all of that very much lends itself to the idea of essentially causing those agencies to fail at meeting their mandates, and that will lead to the call for privatization,” said Sarah Lundstrum, glacier program manager with the National Parks Conservation Association. “Because if the government can’t manage that land, then obviously somebody else should, right? In documents like Project 2025, there are calls for the privatization of land, or the sell-off of land.”

Montana voters rejected GOP gubernatorial candidates in 2018 over their Trump-like support for slashing national monuments and opening up public lands to drilling and mining, and the staunchly conservative Zink told Politico the same thing could happen again next year if the president continues his attacks on public lands.

“If we get poked too hard on this, they’re going to get primaried and voted out,” Zink said.

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