Megyn Kelly criticized Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally as a ‘bro-tastic’ event too focused ‘off-color insults.’
The SiriusXM radio host praised the former president for staying on message at the New York City rally Sunday night, saying he did a ‘great job’ and admitting that she voted for him to take the nation’s highest office.
But she said that ‘Trump was not well-served by those around him,’ at the rally that included many male speakers like Hulk Hogan, Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk amid controversial jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.
‘It wasn’t a Nazi rally, all that’s nonsense,’ Kelly said. ‘But I am telling you, even for me, and I voted for Donald Trump last week, it was too bro-tastic. OK? It was.’
‘You’re trying to win an election in which you’re hemorrhaging female voters,’ she said. ‘Maybe when you present in front of hundreds-thousand at least in Madison Square Garden, you clean up the bro talk just a little so you don’t alienate women in the middle of America who are already on the fence about Republicans.
Megyn Kelly praised former President Donald Trump praised Trump for staying on message at his New York City rally Sunday night, saying he did a ‘great job’
But she said that ‘Trump was not well-served by those around him,’ amid controversial jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe
‘Do they have no women advising their campaigns?’ Kelly asked.
‘Is there no actual woman sitting behind the scenes coming up with a guest line-up and saying, “Let’s just have a word with the guys who are going to be speaking about [how] this isn’t the bar, this isn’t their living room, this is a campaign.
‘”This is politics. We’re trying to get him elected. We don’t need to rally the base or guys anymore and it’s not helpful to rally the base or to go full off-color insults to different racial groups and so on.”‘
‘I get it,’ Kelly continued. ‘Trust me, nothing that was said offended me. I’m almost unoffendable, but I understand how this plays, especially with women and it was an f-ed up choice.
‘They took what was an amazing celebration of Trump, exciting and well-attended and hugely enthusiastic and gave themselves a big black eye.
Among the male speakers at the rally were former wrestler Hulk Hogan
Comedian Hinchcliffe referred to the American territory as a ‘floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean’
‘This isn’t about the insane media, which did of course what the insane media is gonna do,’ Kelly concluded.
‘This is about them giving the insane media all these headlines that undermined the main man, Donald Trump, who did exactly what he should have last night.
‘You f-ed up!’ she said.
‘Hopefully, you’ll do better in the closing week of the campaign. That’s my take on it.’
Her comments came as the Trump campaign did damage control following Hinchcliffe’s remark about Puerto Rico at the rally.
During his speech – which campaign officials say was not approved ahead of time – Hinchcliffe referred to the American territory as a ‘floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.’
But there is an estimated population of more than 400,000 Puerto Ricans living in battleground Pennsylvania, as Trump critics quickly pointed out Sunday night.(Residents living in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections).
On Fox & Friends Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed it was just ‘a comedian who made a joke in poor taste.’
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‘Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign,’ she added.
‘And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian, rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had,’ she said – shifting blame to the media, which Trump called the ‘enemy of the people’ in his own remarks.
‘And the crowd, they didn’t mind, right?’ Leavitt continued, noting that the crowd ‘was a diverse group of people.
‘The joke fell flat, but the crowd was there because they know who President Trump is and they know he wants to be a president for all Americans.’
Senior adviser Danielle Alvarez also claimed, ‘This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.’
But other comments by Hinchcliffe also stoked controversy.
‘These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,’ he said at one point.
‘There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.’
‘Republicans are the party with the good sense of humor,’ he said after that remark.
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And even the other speakers made some controversial comments, with Tucker Carlson unleashing a slew of insults on Kamala Harris on stage at Madison Square Garden.
‘As the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor, it was just a ground swell of popular support,’ he said while laughing.
UFC President Dana White also went off on the vice president, while Elon Musk claimed he could save $2trillion with his Department of Government Efficiency, or D.O.G.E.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, appeared dressed as his wrestling character and addressed the ‘Trumpamaniacs’ in the crowd while struggling to rip off his shirt.
Still, Leavitt also defended the overall tone of the rally.
‘It was happiness and joy. And it was such a diverse group of people in that stadium packed to the house,’ she told Fox & Friends.
‘There wasn’t an empty seat. You had black Americans, Latino Americans, Jewish Americans, men, women of all ages coming in support of President Trump and unafraid to show it.’
