Trump: I Will Always Refer to MS-13 Members as Animals

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would always refer to members of the transnational drug gang MS-13 as "animals."

"So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I referred to them as animals. And guess what?" Trump said. "I always will."

Trump's received backlash during a meeting Wednesday after he used the term "animals" in response to a comment from Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims about MS-13. He said the following: "We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in. We're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals, and we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before."

Numerous media outlets falsely reported that Trump was referring to all migrants coming into the United States.

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