90% sure he thinks that people seeking “asylum” are coming from insane asylums.
As stupid as that sounds for him, what’s even worse for me is that he is trying to make the case that all immigration in America is essentially criminals and insane asylum monsters. Even when he knows full well he himself married several immigrants, he comes from immigrant families, his kids have immigrant mothers, and so on.
He’s trying to tell a nation built by immigrants that immigrants are all criminals and monsters.
Well, maybe he is talking about his own experiences? He is in the Republican party after all.
I don’t think he actually thinks that, I think it’s just that he is simple-minded and once he makes a concrete connection between concepts he’s unable to stop using it.
In his 2016 campaign, his advisers were pushing him to focus on immigration reform. They had policies that would make it harder for people to illegally immigrate (and legally, tbh), and they figured that would be a winning issue with republican voters. But Trump couldn’t stay on script, and kept neglecting to talk about immigration. So his advisors told him that the policies would be “like a wall” that stopped border crossings. “The wall” was supposed to be a mental image to remind him to discuss immigration. But Trump is too literal-minded, and starts just talking about the wall. The rest is history.
Worth noting that everyone in the Americas is an immigrant or descendants of immigrants.
The only difference is if you came here yourself, like my daughter in law did, a couple hundred years ago, like my family did, or 10,000 to 50,000 years ago like the first nations.
Human life did not evolve in the Americas, everyone here either came here from somewhere else or came from someone who did.
More info and source
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-explains-why-he-keeps-praising-hannibal-lecter-1930009
During his Wednesday rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump appeared to explain why he keeps praising the character, saying it was because they are “real stories.”
“They go crazy when I say the late, great Hannibal Lecter. They say, ‘Why would he mention Hannibal Lecter? He must be cognitively in trouble.’ No. These are real stories. Hannibal Lecter from ‘Silence of the Lamb,’ is a lovely man. He wants to have you for dinner,” he said.
This would be funny if I thought he had a sense of humor.
I think he probably heard a joke about Hannibal Lechter being nice because he wants to have you for dinner but doesn’t get how humor works so he works it into speech awkwardly and without context. His addled brain jumps from ‘asylum’ to Hannibal Lechter being nice and just skipped right over the connections that make it a joke.
He clearly hasn’t read Hannibal. Where is this late, great coming from?
Clearly he watched it and looked up to that character. Recently he watched the purge and promoted it as part of a solution.
