New Fascists at MSG?

Trump spoke at Madison Square Garden in New York City after a series of racist jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and disparaged Black Americans, Latinos and Jewish people.

Trump replaced his signature blue suit and red tie with the black and gold of the neofascist Proud Boys. He then lied about presiding over the most secure border in United States history (he did not), that the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not deliver hurricane relief because the government spent its money bringing immigrants into the country illegally (it did not) and that foreign nations were emptying their prisons and sending convicts to the US (they are not). There is no evidence that countries are emptying their prisons – or mental institutions – and sending people to illegally migrate to the US.

A German-American Bund color guard marches through Madison Square Garden, Feb. 20, 1939.