Trump Introduces Hispanic American Border Patrol Agent: “He Speaks Perfect English”

At a White House event today honoring ICE and CBP, Donald Trump introduced a Hispanic American border patrol agent telling the crowd that the officer “speaks perfect English.”

Now, what does that have to do with anything?

Here’s the video. Trump talking about a border patrol agent: “Come here. You’re not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English.” (via Fox) pic.twitter.com/pJh1T30PvY

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 20, 2018

Trump is speaking at a ceremony for immigration agents. He just called a border officer with a Latino name up to the microphone to speak and commented that the officer speaks “perfect English.” He’s American.

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) August 20, 2018

Pres. Trump just held an event to “salute” what his office called “the heroes of #ICE and CBP,” inviting up a Latino Border Patrol agent by saying, “Come here, you’re not nervous, right? Speaks perfect English.” pic.twitter.com/BLh8GRCRXu

— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) August 20, 2018

While introducing a Latino border patrol agent the president said that he “speaks perfect english” at a public event at the White House but you can keep on looking for an N word tape if you want to https://t.co/ADZCPNvx6k

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) August 20, 2018