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WWE, which announced on Tuesday a comedy roast associated with its Wrestlemania 41 event that will be hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe, is finally going full, unabashed MAGA.
If you’ve not heard of Hinchcliffe, lucky you – the rest of us remember him for his set at Donald Trump’s Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden a week before the 2024 election, lowlighted by Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” because of course that kind of thing is hilarious.
There was also the one about how Latinos “love making babies”: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.”
And then another one in which he pointed to a Black man in the audience, said the man was one of his “buddies,” and talked about a fictional Halloween party where they’d “carved watermelons” together.
This is the level of humor you get with this guy.
According to the wrestling-data website Wrestlenomics, the WWE audience is roughly 25 percent Black and 12 percent Latino; WWE claims that these numbers are the highest percentage of non-White fans of any U.S.-based sport.
Hinchcliffe, defending himself after his race-baiting set at the Trump Nazi rally, dismissed his critics as “having no sense of humor.”
Alternative view: maybe we do, and we understand that jokes about Black guys carving watermelons, immigrants having sex and a Latino country being a floating island of garbage are juvenile, in addition to being racist and xenophobic.
Anyway, this is who WWE booked to host its comedy roast, which, unfortunately for the world, won’t be televised.
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