Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) said she thinks someone “should have been fired” over former President Trump’s rally earlier this week at Madison Square Garden.
“Why isn’t somebody fired for that?” Dean questioned Thursday on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” “This is the big, strong guy who likes to fire people and yet he just says ‘Oh, I have no idea.’”
“Somebody should have been fired,” she continued.
Dean was referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remark at Trump’s Sunday New York City rally.
Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage” in the ocean and has sparked a wave of criticism from his comment.
Trump and his campaign have attempted to distance themselves from the comedian. The former president said he didn’t know who Hinchcliffe was and didn’t hear him speak.
“I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump said in an interview published days after the rally.
