Trump has since defended his use of the word “animals” to describe individuals trying to cross into the United States illegally, saying that he had been specifically referring to members of the brutal transnational gang MS-13.

“I’m referring, and you know I’m referring, to the MS-13 gangs that are coming in,” the POTUS told a reporter who asked him about the remark, a day after using the term during a White House meeting about immigration.

“We have laws that are laughed at on immigration. So when the MS-13 comes in, when the other gang members come into our country, I refer to them as animals. And guess what? I always will.”

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