Puerto Rico’s 3.2 million inhabitants produce almost a tonne of trash per year, according to a report from the Environmental Protection Agency. Limited recycling infrastructure means that less than 10 percent of solid waste is recycled on the island and almost all of its landfill sites are at – or near – capacity.
Despite defending him, Rogan also revealed he had previously warned Hinchcliffe about the offensive gag.
“I didn’t know what bits he was going to do, but then I heard he did that joke, and I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus, Tony. Here it comes,’” Rogan said.
The podcaster claimed that, if he got the opportunity, he would have given the comedian a stern piece of advice prior to taking the stage: “Don’t you f***ing dare do that joke.”
Rogan, however, said he has previously warned Hinchcliffe about potential fallout from cracking the offensive joke.
Tony Hinchcliffe speaks before Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
“I said to him, I go, ‘Dude, that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed,” he said.
Rogan, who welcomed Trump on his show on Friday and was interviewing his running mate JD Vance on Wednesday, said that the political stage was a bad environment for comedy.
That said, he insisted “it’s a funny joke.”
“I’ve gotta tell you, that joke kills at comedy clubs. I don’t like the joke, [but] it kills,” the podcaster said. “It’s just like, if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like [groans]. But it’s a funny joke. The joke does well.”
Trump sits in a garbage truck in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 30 (REUTERS)
Democrats, Latino celebrities and the Puerto Rican community have condemned the joke as overtly racist – as well as condemning Trump for platforming it.
Trump has tried to distance himself from it, claiming not to know Hinchcliffe – and trying to shift attention onto President Joe Biden’s remarks where, while responding to the Hinchcliffe joke furore, he appeared to call the former president’s supporters “garbage.”
In an attempt to capitalize on Biden’s so-called gaffe, Trump dressed up in an orange high-visibility vest and clambered into a MAGA-branded garbage truck before his Wisconsin rally on Wednesday.
“How do you like my garbage truck?” Trump asked reporters. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.”
The stunt comes despite Trump repeatedly calling the entire US a “garbage can” in several campaign rallies in recent days.
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