Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani made shockingly racist comments about Haitian migrants in an unhinged tirade on Monday.
The ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump appeared on the Flyover Conservatives podcast on Rumble when asked about Trump’s claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating neighbors’ pets.
Giuliani, 80, responded that Haitian migrants “should not have been taken out of the jungle and put in the middle of a small town in America,” claiming that Haitians “lived 200 years ago.”
His comments have since been fueled by the campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, who say Trump’s campaign is based on bigotry and dehumanizing rhetoric.
The former mayor is not part of Trump’s 2024 campaign but said he voted for the former president when he went to the polls on Thursday in MAGA Crocs.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who cast his vote for former President Donald Trump on Thursday (photo), made racist comments about Haitian migrants in a podcast on Monday
Giuliani claimed in the podcast, who imagines himself discussing current events ‘from a conservative Christian perspective’, that he knows the Haitian people ‘back to front’ from the time he worked for former President Ronald Reagan and wanted to become a Catholic priest.
“They practiced voodoo,” he said. “And when they practiced voodoo, they killed pets.”
He further claimed that at least “half of them are doing it,” while arguing that immigration officials do not check those entering the country.
“They don’t take people and say, ‘Mr. Haitian, are you one of those who kill animals or not? Do you practice voodoo?’ They have no idea.
“So somewhere animals are getting hurt,” Giuliani claimed.
“And look, I’m going to say this, it’s not their fault,” he continued. ‘They lived 200 years ago. They shouldn’t have been taken out of the jungle and put in the middle of small town America, that’s ridiculous. Or big city America for that matter.”
“These people are crazy what they’re doing!” Giuliani said. “They’re crazy.”
Trump’s campaign previously faced backlash over the former president’s claims that Haitian migrants ate pets in Springfield, Ohio
But Trump’s campaign previously came under fire for the former president’s claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are “eating the dogs and cats.”
“They eat, they eat the pets of the people who live there. And this is what is happening in our country,” Trump claimed during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
ABC News host and debate co-moderator David Muir intervened, saying the city said there have been no credible reports of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community, but Trump doubled down.
“I’ve seen people on TV,” he claimed. “The people on television said, ‘My dog was taken and used as food.’
Even before the debate, Trump — the first president since McKinley not to have a dog in the White House — posted AI memes on his Truth Social account, featuring cats in MAGA hats. This was after his vice presidential choice JD Vance used the allegations to build a narrative against migrants and illegal immigration.
Some of the roughly 15,000 Haitians who have made Springfield their home since 2020 said they are considering leaving because of the bitterness, DailyMail.com revealed, while others took to the streets in protest.
Giuliani also came under fire for his comments at the Madison Square Garden rally, in which he claimed that “Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two.”
Giuliani’s comments also came on the same day the Trump campaign turned to damage control, following comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico at a rally in New York City on Sunday.
During his speech — which campaign officials said was not approved in advance — Hinchcliffe called the U.S. territory a “floating island of trash in the middle of the ocean.”
On Fox & Friends Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed it was just “a comedian making a joke in poor taste.”
“It is clear that this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign,” she added.
“And I think it’s sad that the media is picking up on one joke made by a comedian, rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had,” she said, shifting the blame to the media. who Trump called the “enemy of the people” in his own remarks.
“And the audience didn’t mind, right?” Leavitt continued, noting that the crowd was “a diverse group of people.
“The joke went unnoticed, but the crowd was there because they know who President Trump is and they know he wants to be a president for all Americans.”
Senior advisor Danielle Alvarez also claimed, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
But Giuliani also came under fire for his comments at that meeting in which he claimed that “Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two.”
“Maybe they have good people. “I’m sorry, I’m not taking any chances with people who learned to kill Americans at the age of two,” he said.
“I’m on the side of Israel, you’re on the side of Israel, Donald Trump is on the side of Israel, and they’re on the side of the terrorists,” Giuliani claimed about pro-Palestinian protesters.
He has since voted early in presidential elections, tells the Palm Beach Daily News he voted for Trump to “save our country from what, in my opinion, has become a regime modeled on a banana republic.”
He also claimed that he still speaks regularly with the former president.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Trump campaign for comment.