The last time Trump was at MSG on Oct. 27, he and his lineup hosted a “Racist, Misogynistic, Antisemitic” rally that “Was an Explicit Preview of a Second Term,” as Vanity Fair’s Bess Levin reported.
There was Trump surrogate and stand-up comic Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico as “garbage” and saying that “these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” (That same guy also made a racist comment about a Black man and “watermelons” and described Palestinians as violent and Jews as cheap.)
Conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg called Hillary Clinton “some sick bastard,” adding, “What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them. Every one of them.” Real estate businessman Grant Cardone claimed that Harris had “pimp handlers.” And former Fox News host Tucker Carlson insulted Harris’s intelligence and mocked her ethnicity with an obviously false descriptor, saying, “It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say: ‘You know what, Kamala Harris, she’s just, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.’”
At that rally, Trump himself called on one of the phrases he repeated during his campaign, describing “a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat party” as the “enemy from within.”
Three weeks later, Trump was once again welcomed into the Garden—Saturday night’s event pit Jon Jones, the headline fighter, against Stipe Miocic. Jones emerged victorious and, when he did, decided to celebrate with a nod to Trump—imitating his signature dance move of fist-pumping the air as he twisted his hips. Jones also handed the president-elect his championship belt.
Trump’s recent visits to Manhattan come as he is still awaiting the New York judge’s decision in the criminal hush money case where he was convicted of 34 felony counts for “falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniel to silence allegations about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election,” ABC News reports. Judge Juan Merchan has until Tuesday, Nov. 19, to decide the fate of the case and recommend next steps.
Trump is currently set to be sentenced later this month, but that could now change based on the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity.
Right now, it’s unclear when Trump will be called back to the city again—not for another glorious evening at the Garden—but for his court date downtown.