Washington – President Donald Trump invited a U.S. Border Patrol agent to the podium during a White House event to pay tribute to federal immigration officials and joked that the agent could speak “perfect English.”
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Trump asked the agent, Adrian Anzaldua, to discuss his apprehension of a smuggler accused of locking 78 migrants inside a truck near Laredo, Texas, about a week ago.
Trump also appeared to refer to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, as CBC during Monday’s event. CBC stands for Congressional Black Caucus, among other things.
Trump says immigration agents are doing important, necessary work. He lambasted Democrats who have called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He said: “Most importantly let me extend my gratitude to every law enforcement professional representing ICE and CBC.”
Trump himself doesn’t speak perfect English. “Bigly” is bot a word and huge isn’t pronounced “yuuge”. He also seems to have a limited vocabulary for a man who went to the finest schools.
From my reading, and I cannot really prove it, it seems to me that President Trump has no problem with Blacks or Jews or Gay people. He does seem to dislike Hispanic people.
Trump seemed to think that because the federal agent was Hispanic that he couldn’t speak proper English; hello, Mr. President, the majority of the border agents are Hispanic U.S. citizens. It was a dumb remark which you made (among others). Melania definitely has more class than you’ll ever have.
After (finally) finding and reading the actual context of the words, it looks to me that Adrian was reluctant to come up and speak, and this was (in context) the short way for Trump to simply state to the audience that Adrian’s reluctance was not because he spoke bad English, but on the contrary, he spoke perfect English.