A comic calling Puerto Rico garbage before a packed Donald Trump rally in New York was the latest humiliation for an island territory that has long suffered from mistreatment, residents said Monday in expressions of fury that could affect the presidential election.

Tony Hinchcliffe’s description of Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" during former president Donald Trump's New York rally has drawn bipartisan backlash from officials who said the podcaster’s remarks were false and disrespectful.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, one of the openers for former President Donald Trump at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage,” a joke that drew immediate criticism from Democrats and several Republicans—and led Trump’s campaign to distance itself.