Fox & Friends co-host on Trump's Madison Square Garden rally: “I have a dark sense of humor ... it's comedy”
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Citation From the October 28, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): It felt a lot like the RNC reunion. You saw a lot of people you saw at the RNC right there.
Of all the comments, however, of the warm-up acts, there was a comic who made some offensive comments about Latinos and Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and others. And he has already been denounced by Republicans and by the campaign.
But unfortunately for the Trump campaign, the Harris campaign has denounced it and mobilized influential Puerto Rican influencers like Bad Bunny, who is very big in the Puerto Rican community and Latino community — he put out something on Instagram. And so did Ricky Martin with millions of followers and he wrote or he said this is what they think of us, vote for Kamala Harris. A Trump adviser said the speaker's remarks were not vetted. We are going to talk to Karoline Leavitt — she's gonna be with us in a moment.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Part of the pre-show, that was two hours before the president.
DOOCY: Yup, the warm-up.
KILMEADE: It's amazing. The cover of The New York Times, Trump at Garden, a closing carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism. Only, only somebody who works for the Harris campaign pretending to be a reporter for The New York Times would write something like that if you watched, that three hours or four hours. You had to flip around to get it. We didn't take all of it live. But also — you don't point out that R.F.K. the famous Democratic family actually was one of the featured speakers around the most famous inventor in the world, Elon Musk? That stands out? No, a comedian with a successful podcast said some off-color.
LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): But you lose goodwill when before the rally even started they called it a Nazi rally. Before they even took the stage. They had already said that it was going to be a racist rally.
And so number two, maybe it's just me, Dana, uh Ainsley, I have a dark sense of humor you know? And so I like — maybe this was not the appropriate format for the comedian to be there but it's comedy.