Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has made shockingly racist comments about Haitian migrants in an unhinged rant on Monday.
The ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump appeared on the Flyover Conservatives podcast on Rumble when he was asked about Trump’s claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating neighbor’s pets.
Giuliani, 80, replied that Haitian migrants ‘shouldn’t have been taken out of the jungle and placed in the middle of a small town America,’ and claimed that Haitians ‘lived back 200 years ago.’
His remarks have since been boosted by the campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, which argues that Trump’s campaign is based in bigotry and dehumanizing rhetoric.
The former mayor is not a part of Trump’s 2024 campaign, but said he voted for the former president when he took to the polls on Thursday wearing MAGA crocs.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who cast his ballot for former President Donald Trump on Thursday (pictured), made racist comments about Haitian migrants in a podcast appearance on Monday
Giuliani claimed in the podcast, which bills itself a discussion of current events ‘from a Conservative Christian perspective,’ that he knows the Haitian population ‘backwards and forwards’ from the time he was working for former President Ronald Reagan and wanted to become a Catholic priest.
‘They practiced voodoo,’ he said. ‘And when they practiced voodoo, they killed domestic animals.’
He went on to claim that at least ‘half of them do it’ as he argued that immigration officials are not vetting those who are coming into the country.
‘They’re not taking people in and saying, “Mr. Haitian, are you one of those who kills animals or not? Do you practice voodoo?” They have no idea.
‘So animals are getting hurt somewhere,’ Giuliani claimed.
‘And look, I’m going to say this, it’s not their fault,’ he continued. ‘They lived back 200 years ago. They shouldn’t have been taken out of the jungle and placed in the middle of small town America, that’s ridiculous. Or big town America, for that matter.’
‘These people are insane what they’re doing!’ Giuliani said. ‘They’re insane.’
The Trump campaign has previously faced backlash for the former president’s claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating pets
But the Trump campaign has previously come under fire for the former president’s claims that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are ‘eating the dogs’ and ‘eating the cats.’
‘They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country,’ Trump claimed during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
ABC news anchor and debate co-moderator David Muir interceded to say the city said there had 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 television,’ he claimed. ‘The people on television saying, ‘My dog was taken and used for 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 showing cats in MAGA hats. This was after his vice presidential pick JD Vance had seized on the accusations to build a narrative against migrants and illegal immigration.
Some of the 15,000 or so Haitians who have made Springfield their home since 2020 said they were considering leaving due to the bitterness, DailyMail.com revealed, while others took to the streets in protest.
Giuliani also came under fire for his remarks at the Madison Square Garden rally, in which he claimed that ‘Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two’
Giuliani’s remarks also came the same day the Trump campaign was on 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 say was not approved ahead of time – Hinchcliffe referred to the American territory as a ‘floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.’
On Fox & Friends Monday, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed it was just ‘a comedian who made a joke in poor taste.’
‘Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign,’ she added.
‘And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian, rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had,’ she said – shifting blame to the media, which Trump called the ‘enemy of the people’ in his own remarks.
‘And the crowd, they didn’t mind, right?’ Leavitt continued, noting that the crowd ‘was a diverse group of people.
‘The joke fell flat, 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 adviser 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 remarks at that rally in which he claimed that ‘Palestinians are taught to kill us at the age of two.
‘They may have good people. I’m sorry, I don’t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at 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 of pro-Palestine protesters.
He has since voted early in the presidential election, telling the Palm Beach Daily News he voted for Trump to ‘save our country from what’s become, in my view, a regime that has been modeled after a banana republic.’
He also claimed he still speaks regularly with the former president.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.