The violent and vulgar rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday has prompted finger-pointing within the former president’s inner circle and deep concern that his message was once again eclipsed by controversy.

Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City featured numerous instances of speakers making racist or bigoted remarks. Perhaps none more notoriously so than comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive comments about Puerto Rico.

Hinchcliffe, known for his roast comedy and podcast “Kill Tony,” referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.”

As the Civil War approached it became the anthem of Confederacy. It was played during South Carolina’s secession convention. Later it was played at the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as the Confederacy’s first and only president. “Dixie” was also part of the score of “The Birth of a Nation,” the movie that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan in 1915.

Former president Donald Trump hosted a rally where speakers made numerous vulgar and racist remarks inside New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Speakers at the rally called Vice President Kamala Harris,

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on Sunday that began with a series of vulgar and racist remarks by allies of the former president.