Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport
Former president Donald Trump expanded his portrayal of migrants as violent with a suggestion that they could be pitted in fights for entertainment.
During a speech to Christian conservatives on Saturday afternoon, and again at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed that he told his friend Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff on restricting immigration.
“Did anyone ever hear of Dana White?” Trump asked during his speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Washington. “ … I said, ‘Dana, I have an idea. Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league of fighters, and then you have the champion of your league — these are the greatest fighters in the world — fight the champion of the migrants.’ I think the migrant guy might win, that’s how tough they are. He didn’t like that idea too much.”
At a post-fight news conference in Saudi Arabia later Saturday, White confirmed that Trump made the comments but said they were “a joke.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-spreads-violent-rhetoric-by-suggesting-migrants-should-fight-for-sport/ar-BB1oIfPE
It's always just a joke when they're called out on their BS.
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