Pace yourself, buddy.
Donald Trump just cannot shut his mouth. He seems absolutely convinced that if he can just repeat and expand upon his smears of Mexican immigrants often enough, eventually all America will recognize his genius.
The 2016 Republican presidential candidate said that Mexican drug cartels are using immigrants to smuggle heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs into the United States.
"The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border," Trump continued.
The
infectious disease is pouring across the border bit is pure xenophobic drivel; as we
already discussed, many of these migrants are coming from countries with better vaccination rates than the American states they're fleeing to. It's a myth perpetrated in racist circles that, funny how these things work, Donald Trump just happened to stumble upon too. Perhaps because he's been on Fox News so often.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post has some nice interviews with the undocumented and documented immigrants who are currently working on Trump's new luxury hotel. They are, needless to say, unimpressed with their overlord. And Fox News continues to both defend Trump and make sure he remains in the spotlight, which is a sure sign that Trump's xenophobic frothing is more important to them than his obvious, well, lunacy.
I do worry, though, that Trump may find politics so heated that he quits in a huff before graciously subjecting us all to the spectacle of a few Trump-heavy Republican debates. I think we're in the clear there—as I said, Fox News is all-in on Trump, and their attentions should convince the poor sap to keep plugging away—but there is some danger that Trump's spectacular immolation will burn too bright, and too quickly for us to really savor it.
A lot of Republicans will vote for him, after all, and they'll be voting for him because he says creepy and openly racist things, not because they're fond of his line of Chinese-made ties. He's doing great in the polls, he just has to make sure Republican Party leaders like Reince Priebus don't pop out from behind a curtain to break his kneecaps.