Trump Compares Deportation Planes to Nicolas Cage Movie ‘Con Air’: ‘Every One of Them’ a ‘Murderer, a Drug Lord, a Kingpin of Some Kind’

President Donald Trump referenced the Nicolas Cage-led movie Con Air while talking about the planes being used to deport immigrants.

During a GOP conference in Doral, Florida on Monday, Trump spoke at length about the immigration raids being conducted nationwide as part of his planned mass deportations. After commending immigration officers for the sheer volume of people they’ve detained and deported in the first few days, Trump explained the reasoning behind many of those immigrants being shown in chains. According to him, “every one” of the detainees on the deportation planes was a murder or involved in gang activity. He then said that not restraining them would produce an outcome similar to Con Air, the 1997 action movie in which a group of prisoners hatch an escape plot aboard a plane.

“We were being scolded because we had them in shackles in an airplane,” Trump said, “and he said, ‘This is no way to treat people.’ Now, you gotta understand these are murderers, drug lords, gang members, just the toughest people you’ve ever met or seen.

How would you like to be the pilot of a plane? You got two pilots up there and you got 300 people sitting in a plane — every one of them either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin of some kind, the head of the mob, or a gang member — and you’re flying that plane. It’s not gonna end well. You ever see the movie Con Air? Except here’s the difference: the people in Con Air were actors. They weren’t nearly as tough as these guys. I would say that that plane would be gone before it ever left. Those pilots would be gone before it ever left. So, they don’t want us to shackle them. I don’t want to be in that plane.”

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