Playbook: “Two days after his Madison Square Garden rally went off the rails thanks to racist jokes about Latinos and a crack about Puerto Rico being ‘a floating island of garbage,’ Donald Trump today heads to Allentown, Pennsylvania — a majority-Latino city home to tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans.”
“Trump will hold a news conference at Mar-a-Lago at 10 a.m. — where he’ll no doubt be asked about this issue if he takes questions — before flying to the Keystone State for the 7 p.m. rally.”
“It won’t be a warm welcome… Some are planning to protest Trump’s visit, which happens to be smack in the middle of a Puerto Rican neighborhood…”
“We spent much of last night trying to get a readout on how Trump plans to stanch the bleeding today. His team has gone quiet on that question — apologies, personal or otherwise, are not Trump’s thing, of course — though one senior GOP official told us Trump needs to rebuke Hinchcliffe’s remarks in some fashion.”
NBC News: Trump rally comedian workshopped racist Puerto Rico line at NYC comedy club the night before.
