AOC sparks MAGA fury after trashing Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally as ‘mini-January 6’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the firebrand progressive Democrat, sparked MAGA outrage on Monday as she labeled Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally a ‘mini January 6’ event.

Trump’s campaign hosted the highly-anticipated campaign rally at historic MSG in AOC’s hometown New York City Sunday that drew 20,000 MAGA supporters, with thousands more turned away from the capacity event. 

The MSG rally was billed as a political homecoming for the Republican former president, who’s originally from the city’s Queens borough. Congressional ‘Squad’ member AOC represents parts of Queens and the Bronx.

But Trump’s return to New York sparked controversy after Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian, opened the rally with a set that joked about Puerto Rico being an ‘island of garbage’ – along with some disparaging cracks about Hispanics and Blacks.

The jokes caused many outlets and critics, including AOC, to paint the entire event as ‘racist’ despite the Trump campaign quickly disavowing them.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, who is Puerto Rican, slammed the comedian and the Trump campaign for the rally at MSG, declaring on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Monday morning, ‘This was a hate rally.’

‘This was not just a campaign rally,’ she maintained. ‘I think it’s important for people to understand these are mini January 6 rallies, these are mini stop-the-steal rallies.’ 

The socialist-backed New York Democrat went so far to say that the rally incited violence and hatred against Latinos, blacks and childless Americans. 

‘We have to understand how unhinged this campaign has gotten, and the only reason that the rhetoric has gotten this far is precisely because they are trying to prime the kind of froth that led up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol,’ Ocasio-Cortez claimed to the left-leaning MSNBC hosts. 

Following the MSG rally and the subsequent outrage prompted by the Hinchcliffe’s jokes, Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez put out a statement putting distance between the ex-president and the comedian. 

‘This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign,’ she wrote.

However, AOC said she is not buying the excuse, and also denied that Hinchcliffe is a comedian.

‘They knew exactly who was going to say what before they went on,’ the congresswoman said. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., likened Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to a hate fest that incited violence against black people, Latinos and childless Americans 

‘They’re trying to blame this rhetoric on a so called comedian. This is not a comedian,’ AOC blasted. ‘This is the Trump campaign … they invited this rhetoric on their stage for a reason.’

Hinchcliffe, for his part, hosts a live, weekly stand-up comedy show that boasts millions of followers across various platforms. His show regularly receives millions of views on YouTube alone. 

And the MSG rally, which some have likened to a 1939 pro-Nazi event at the same venue, featured a diverse audience, including white, Latino, Asian, Jewish, gay and straight attendees. 

Responding to AOC’s declaration that the MSG rally was a hate-fest, MAGA supporters tore into the Democrat for choosing to fan the flames of incendiary rhetoric surrounding the former president. 

‘AoC is the dumbest person in Congress,’ conservative show host Cash Loren wrote on X. 

‘There have been two attempts on Trumps life, and Morning Joe has the nerve to accuse Trump of ramping up the rhetoric when they are comparing him to [Hitler].’

Former US First Lady Melania Trump applauds her husband former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he spoke at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe speaks during the MSG rally on Sunday

Another user on X posted: ‘I watched it and saw no hate whatsoever. I think what you guys are worried about is how wonderfully diverse and unified the MAGA movement has become. It’s time to do what is good for the country and spewing inaccuracies isn’t what the people are looking for.’

Conservative Joey Mannarino clapped back at the Democrat, posting: ‘AOC just called the MSG rally a ‘mini January 6th’. 

‘The only thing it had in common with January 6th is that AOC wasn’t in the building for either.’

Another account posted that MSNBC’s ‘coverage of this rally has once again exposed that the propaganda press is a cancer on America.’

‘AOC calls Trump’s rally a ‘hate rally.’ These people really don’t get it, do they?’ another pro-Trump account posted on X.

‘They called us deplorables and now they are taking it even further… The best way to deal with this is to go VOTE!’