And frankly, Trump didn't even clarify a hell of a lot. Also, Trump pulls a lot of his scariest statistics about immigrants and crime from either his ass or from the "Center for Immigration Studies" (CIS) a wingnut group with roots in white supremacy.įor all Trump's teasing in the last week or so about whether his position on immigration was "softening," this speech was pure send 'em back rage, full of contradictions, and pure playing to the crowd in the auditorium. Americans are quite adept at doing murder and mayhem to each other, and immigrants actually commit fewer crimes per capita. Yes, Trump trotted out the "Angel Moms," parents of people who were killed by immigrants, but apart from exploiting their suffering, it was bullshit. Trump's main theme was that we face an enormous wave of violent crime being committed by undocumented immigrants, which simply isn't the case - it's a myth that's been debunked repeatedly, including by the Wall Street Journal, where the reporting staff is still allowed to do some journalism. We won't get into all of it, because there's simply too much - again, the WaPo annotations do a pretty thorough job of pointing out where he was full of shit. How good a speech was it? This good: David Duke positively loved it.Īs usual, Trump promised to tell the cold hard truths about immigration, then proceeded to lie his damned thatch-topped head off. Here we should note, per WaPo's annotation of the speech, when Trump spoke in Phoenix in July 2015, he said, "I don’t use teleprompters like the president and I speak from the heart." He also said this wouldn't be a "rally speech," but instead would be a "detailed policy address." It did have some policy in it, but above all, it was a red-meat anti-immigrant speech, a nativist throwback to the style of his primary campaign. Trump has gotten a lot better at using a prompter, and while we wouldn't say he sounds natural reading from one, he now sounds almost exactly as unnatural with one as without. Pardon us while we kill some brain cells here.īelieve it or not, kids, this was a teleprompter speech. We're just going to stick to our original plan: Outline the Trump immigration plan, covering every concrete detail. Actual wall will be built even more biglyĭonald Trump finally laid out his real, no-kidding, definite immigration policy in a speech Wednesday night, and good Crom almighty, we're not sure we have enough alcohol to write about it.
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