From the Washington Post news section:
Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport
Speaking at an evangelical group’s conference, the former president nodded to issues like abortion law but largely turned to his traditional rally themes.
By Marianne LeVine, Maegan Vazquez and Isaac Arnsdorf
June 22, 2024 at 7:19 p.m. EDTFormer 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, 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.”
The remarks are part of Trump’s broader pattern of using dehumanizing language when discussing immigrants, which during this election cycle has included broadly portraying migrants as violent criminals and saying that they are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
