AP has deleted a tweet from late Wednesday on Trump’s “animals” comment about immigrants because it wasn’t made clear that he was speaking after a comment about gang members.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 17, 2018
And, of course, now begins a debate about how Trump is inhuman for calling MS-13 gang members “animals.”
The underlying reality is that the media is all worked up over Trump violating one of their unspoken assumptions: that American citizens should have no say in who gets to immigrate because that would be discrimination, and making a choice about whom you prefer is the Worst Thing in the World.
Granted, MS-13 is a reductio ad absurdum of this logic, but the logic was always absurd and that didn’t stop them previously.
