Today when Trump was giving a speech, he invited up to the stage a Hispanic-American border patrol officer and while he as coming up Trump said:
Donald Trump just called up a Hispanic ICE agent to speak, and prefaced it with "he speaks perfect English."
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 20, 2018
We just saw the President of the United States invite a Latino border patrol agent to share his podium for a few remarks -- after assuring a White House audience that "he speaks perfect English."
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) August 20, 2018
Here’s the video:
https://twitter.com/HashtagGriswold/status/1031626931475804160
Here's the video. Trump talking about a border patrol agent: "Come here. You're not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English." (via Fox) pic.twitter.com/pJh1T30PvY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 20, 2018
Twitter quickly cringed and facepalmed:
Here's where the WH prays the Manafort jury comes back in the next hour. https://t.co/RerMI6RwHy
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 20, 2018
"Look at my African-American over here" https://t.co/A455IGbe80
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) August 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/WiseguySix/status/1031627421328531456
"He's SO articulate." https://t.co/pfvug0WXZZ
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) August 20, 2018
— Lee Creech (@creechcl) August 20, 2018
I wish I could take credit for it, but a friend of mine said Trump is like a fat version of Joe Biden. Ha!