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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he floated the idea of having a “migrant league of fighters” to UFC President Dana White, again employing dehumanizing language to describe people who enter the US illegally.

“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 migrants’ guy might win, that’s how tough they are,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said at a gathering of Christian conservatives in Washington.

Trump added, “He didn’t like that idea too much, but actually, it’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had.”

The former president repeated the comments at a campaign rally in Philadelphia later Saturday.

President Joe Biden’s campaign swiftly denounced the comments Saturday afternoon.

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,” spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said. “Trump’s incoherent, unhinged tirade showed voters in his own words that he is a threat to our freedoms and is too dangerous to be let anywhere near the White House again.”

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[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 months ago

I desperately want to know what he thinks his worst idea is

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

It has to be him being president.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 8 points 4 months ago

Did he just watch Dune 2? I feel like he might have just watched Dune 2.

Yeah he 100% just watched the Geidi Prime fight scene

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I think that guy is losing it

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

He never had it.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 6 points 4 months ago

For Trump this is a remarkably coherent idea. It has multiple parts and those are all words he said.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Man, that convicted felon don trump sure says some goofy, dangerous bullshit from his brain-eating syphilis hole.

[-] Aphelion@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Oooh! Oooh! Can we have tigers attacking them too? And this will be in a giant arena right? Ancient Rome, LET'S GOOOO!

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

For Jimmy Sharman’s boxers it’s no better if you win

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com -4 points 4 months ago

So like the french foreign league?

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 points 4 months ago

The article mentions that he was telling this to the president of the UFC, so not really since thats sports type fighting, not military stuff like the french foreign legion is. It sounds more like just an attempt to make migrants sound threatening by declaring them to be physically tougher than other people.

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