Former president Donald Trump Monday compared migrants to the character Hannibal Lecter in the movie “Silence of the Lambs”. anti-immigrant rhetoric this has become the mainstay of his pre-election remarks.
“They are rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums,” he said of the migrants who entered the country illegally. – You know, insane asylums, this is “Silence of the Lambs”.
“Hannibal Lecter, does anyone know Hannibal Lecter?” he added to laughter from the audience Long interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. “We don’t want them in this country.”
In the 1991 film, Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer and cannibal.
Trump has previously addressed the film when speaking about migrants, including references at last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference and in a speech in New Hampshire in January.
In an interview on Monday, Trump further dehumanized migrants by comparing their languages to languages from Mars.
“We don’t even have teachers for some of these languages. Who would have thought that? We have languages from the planet Mars?” Trump said. “Nobody, nobody knows how to talk, you know, talk.”
Trump also falsely claimed that cities experiencing an influx of migrants no longer have sports.
“We’ve got kids who don’t go to school anymore. They’re being kicked out of the park. No more Little Leagues, no more sports, no more life in New York and a lot of these cities,” he said. .
New York, Chicago and Denver and thousands of migrants arrived last year as the number of border crossings increased in other cities. in recent months. President Joe Biden visited the southern border last week Trump on the same day He was there to highlight the growing importance of immigration in the 2024 race.
The Biden campaign released a clip of the exchange, focusing on Trump’s comments about sports in an interview on Monday. hen X. The campaign came after Trump’s statement that migrants “poison the blood of our country”. how the language sounds like that of Adolf HitlerHe used the phrase “blood poisoning” in his manifesto “Mein Kampf”.