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 they were white so…
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.