Jennifer Lopez has had it with Donald Trump.
On Thursday evening, the actress/singer took to the stage in Nevada to talk to a crowd of Kamala Harris supporters.
The celebrity was understandably labored up a number of days after Donald Trump held a rally inside Madison Sq. backyard that featured quite a few racist remarks — most notably comic Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto as a “floating island of garbage.”
For these unaware, Lopez’s mother and father are from this United States territory.
“At Madison Sq. Backyard, he reminded us who he actually is and the way he actually feels,” Lopez stated of Trump.
“It wasn’t simply Puerto Ricans who have been offended that day, okay? It was each Latino on this nation, it was humanity and anybody of respectable character.”
Preach, J. Lo. Preach!
“That is our nation, too,” Lopez added on Thursday evening.
At one level, she even fought again tears. However she embraced and defined the emotion.
“You realize what? We ought to be emotional. We ought to be upset. We ought to be scared and outraged. We should always. Our ache issues. We matter,” Lopez stated. “Your voice and your vote issues.”
Over the previous a number of days, loads of Puerto Rican celebrities have come out swinging in opposition to Donald Trump.
Dangerous Bunny, for instance, posted a prolonged video on Tuesday that additionally aimed to take Trump down.
“I’ll always remember what Donald Trump did and what he didn’t do when Puerto Rico wanted a caring and a reliable chief,” Harris says within the footage, referencing the injury the island suffered following Hurricane Maria.
“He deserted the island, tried to dam support after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and provided nothing greater than paper towels and insults.”
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans died in the course of the 2017 hurricane.
Elsewhere, Ricky Martin tagged Harris in his Instagram story put up Sunday, writing: “I keep in mind” in response to her video recalling Trump’s response to Puerto Rico.
Martin additionally shared video of Hinchliffe’s feedback, writing in Spanish to his 18.5 million Instagram followers,
“That is what they consider us. Vote for @kamalaharris.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda re-shared Martin’s put up and adopted up with a message detailing the “disrespect and racism” he felt from the Trump administration, together with of their response to Hurricane Maria.
“Yesterday the Trump marketing campaign gave a comic a nationwide platform to sling racist jokes, together with one calling Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of rubbish.’ However I’m sufficiently old to recollect the times after Hurricane Maria, when former president Trump TREATED us like rubbish. And when criticized for his inaction, referred to as our individuals lazy,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning songwriter’s Instagram caption learn.
He ended his assertion by sharing his presidential endorsement:
I’m voting for VP Kamala Harris. In case you are eligible to vote, please vote.
