Via Vox:
Fuck his administration.
Fuck his supporters.
Lock if old.
Fuck him.But his most jarring comment, as he seemed to veer further and further off script, was a return to the notorious statement he made in 2015 when he announced he was running for president: that Mexico (and presumably other countries) was "not sending their best" to the United States. In fact, he continued then, "they're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
On Tuesday, even as Republicans in Congress beg the White House to stop family separation and photosand audio of sobbing children at US detention centers flood the internet, Trump repeated this claim yet again.
"They're sending not their finest. Does that sound familiar? Remember I made that speech and I was so badly criticized?" Trump told the NFIB crowd. "Turned out I was 100 percent right. That's why I got elected."
The president continued to allege that "child smugglers" were taking advantage of the system, using children to avoid prosecution at the border. He also claimed that Democrats "love open borders" because they view the people coming into the country as potential voters.
At one point, Trump made an offhand promise to cut foreign aid to the countries where people trying to enter the United States illegally were coming from.
"When countries abuse us by sending their people up, not their best, we're not gonna give any more aid to those countries," he said. "Why the hell should we? Why should we?"
Fuck his administration.
Fuck his supporters.
Lock if old.
