Migrant Fights? For reals?

Trump goes off script (or did he) and really loses the plot. Alas, the trained barker seals of his Evangelical base further diminish their ethics, and sell their souls to the tangerine hippo

Last night, as I was scrolling through my news apps, I was frontally assaulted with the following headline: “Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sport”. Thinking I couldn’t be reading that right, I dove into the article, and yes, he did say that perhaps we should create a league of - wait, I can’t state it any better than this:

During a speech to Christian conservatives on Saturday afternoon, and again at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed that he told his friend Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, that he should start a spinoff competition featuring migrants, as part of his riff on restricting immigration.

Let me get this straight, he’s been railing on about other countries emptying their prisons and psychiatric hospitals to flood the southern border, overrunning the CBP with violent offenders, that now he thinks we should round them up and organize them into a series of UFC fights?

After the disbelief that a politician, in the 21st century, actually said this, out loud at least twice to crowds of adoring fans wore off, I had to read further.

Trump spoke for nearly an hour and a half at the conference hosted by the evangelical group started by longtime conservative strategist Ralph Reed. He referenced issues championed by the group such as imposing government restrictions on abortion. But the themes of his speech more closely resembled those of his campaign rallies, including immigration and election denialism.

You know, once I was taught to believe that Christians were warm, loving and welcoming of immigrants, the downtrodden, and their neighbors. I have read piece after piece by Peter Wehner, David French and others about how this is not what being a Christian is. That spewing vitriol against immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ+ people, and the like were not in the image of Jesus.

Clearly, the new MAGA bible is chock full of hatred, grievance and seething contempt.

“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,” Sarafina Chitika, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement after Trump’s speech in Washington.

Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, dismissed concerns over the degrading comparisons of migrants.

“These elitists are the same people who stupidly think combat sports is human cockfighting, showing their ignorance to the sweet science of mixed martial arts,” Cheung said in a statement.

Anal-wart with hair Steven Cheung demonstrates how he can not get the point, and still try to score a MAGA-fried chicken fun basket meal.

I will leave you with this note by Aaron Rupar.

Jesus wept.

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