Trump compares migrants to Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs
The GOP front-runner further dehumanized migrants by comparing their languages to languages from Mars.
Former President Donald Trump compared migrants Monday to the character Hannibal Lecter in the film "The Silence of the Lambs" as he ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric that has become a mainstay of his campaign remarks.
"They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums," he said of migrants who enter the country unlawfully. "You know, insane asylums, that’s 'Silence of the Lambs' stuff."
“Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter?" he added to audience laughter during a lengthy interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. "We don’t want ’em in this country.”
In the 1991 movie, Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer and a cannibal.
Trump has invoked the film when he has talked about migrants before, including references at last month's Conservative Political Action Conference and in a speech in New Hampshire in January.
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