Trump Claims He Told UFC President Dana White to Set Up a League Where Migrants Fight Each Other: ‘They Are Nasty Mean’
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera held a panel discussion on Monday about former President Donald Trump’s speech over the weekend in which he claimed that he suggested to UFC President Dana White that he should start a league where migrants fight each other.
“Ahead of Thursday’s first presidential debate, former President Trump once again used dehumanizing language when talking about migrants. This weekend, he told a gathering of conservative Christians in Washington, DC, that he suggested starting a league where migrants would fight one another to UFC president Dana White,” Cabrera began, before rolling the clip:
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. But actually, it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had. No. It’s. These are tough people. These people are tough, and they’re nasty. Mean. It’s incredible that they come totally unchecked.
“Now, the Biden campaign quickly reacting, saying, quote, ‘Fitting that convicted felon Donald Trump spent his time at a religious conference threatening to round up Latinos, bragging about ripping away Americans freedoms and promising to be even more extreme if he regains power,’” Cabera continued, adding:
Joining us now, former Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo of Florida. He’s also an NBC news political analyst. And our Vaughn Hillyard, who covers the Trump campaign. Vaughn this is really just the latest in a string of dehumanizing comments related to migrants that we are hearing from the former president. And people were laughing.
Hillyard replied, “I don’t know to what extent to even begin to legitimize or provide any sort of credence to the suggestion made by the former president. And I say that because we, of course, know that most of the migrants that are coming to the United States are men, women and children that are seeking a better life and leaving really dire circumstances. And of course, Donald Trump is not providing any details as to what this would even look like.”
“I mean, it sounds more like a version of Gladiator in America in the year of 2024. But when we’re talking about migrants, Donald Trump has referred to them as vermin, dangerous and sick criminals. And he said that migrants have poisoned the blood of this country. And he’s also promised the largest deportation program in American history. Those are the words of the former president of the United States. It’s going to be up to voters to determine whether it’s that sort of rhetoric that they want to install back into the White House in 2025,” he concluded.
Watch the clip above via MSNBC.
