Former President Donald Trump claimed he invented the term “caravan” to describe migrants as he ranted about immigrants — “many of them” from “parts of Africa.”
Trump gave a speech to supporters Thursday afternoon in Houston, Texas that was covered, as usual, by pro-Trump media outlet Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN).
The immigration chunk about Mexican “rapists” that launched his campaign has changed a little since 2015, and now includes the claim he invented the word “caravan,” as well as a curiously pregnant pause as he talks about migrants from — wait for it — “parts of Africa”:
But we’re going to do things immediately within 24 hours. We’re going to stop the invasion of our southern and, by the way, our northern border, which is not great either. But we are going to stop immediately. And we have great people like Brandon Judd, Border Patrol, the people at ICE Tom Homan who’s fantastic central casting. We have great they can do it within 48 hours.Like the caravan. I told you, that’s on its way up. They wouldn’t have caravan, where, they had caravans. When I — I came up with the name, I believe they’ll say, “Oh, it wasn’t really you. It was somebody”– I believe I came up with the name because they started forming these caravans.And
they don’t put their best in those caravans. You know, these countries are very smart. They put people that they don’t want to have in El Salvador and Honduras, in Guatemala and other places, and many of them now are coming from (sniff, pause) parts of Africa. Yesterday, they had 18 people they got from the Congo and four of them were from, four of them were from jails.By the way, our prisoners are like the nicest people in the world compared to some of the prisoners that our country has taken right now. Our prisoners are refined, wonderful people, even if they were murderers compared to the people that are coming out of some of these cells from MS13, from South America, from Africa. They are destroying our country and we have to get them out.
While Trump was an early adopter of the term relative to TV news personalities — he first used the term in a 2018 tweet — “caravan” has been used to describe migrants for decades.
Watch above via RSBN.