Charlie Pierce Esquire
Charlie Pierce Esquire

The former president* of the United States, who is also the current Republican nominee for president, got up onstage in Pennsylvania on Sunday and said a great deal that was insane. I just thought I’d take note of that. He said of undocumented people:

They don’t even think about it….These are rough, vicious, rougher than you can possibly imagine. And I say it all the time, if you want to do a movie about some of these people… There’s no actor that could play the role. You know, these actors, some of them are very shaky. You see a big actor and you say, “He’s got no muscle content.” NO MUSCLES! Then they bring in another one, and they say, “He’s got a weak face.” These guys have the whole package.

(Note for context: I do not know what constitutes a “weak face.” And I’d like to point out that, since 2001 anyway, a lot of actors have played rough, vicious foreign terrorists—and have made a lot of dough doing so.)

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