David E. Sanger

And not surprisingly, Representative Ilhan Omar, who he has attacked repeatedly, begins yelling at him.

And he has a few exchanges with her.

Right.

This was exactly the contrast that I think President Trump wanted to bring up.

This was the moment he wanted for the cameras.

Because what he was building toward, once the yelling laid down, was this one line that may remain as the one that people remember from the speech.

These people are crazy, I'm telling you.

They're crazy.

These people are crazy, I'm telling you.

And of course, he's thinking of that as the theme for the midterm elections.

That's right, Michael.

But it's also where the disconnect shows up again.

Because polls will show that Americans are largely sympathetic with the idea of throwing out illegal immigrants who are violent, who have criminal records and so forth.

Mm-hmm.

It tapers off pretty fast when you have people who've been in the United States for a long time, no criminal record, built their own businesses or students or something like that.

And it completely falls off when you ask about the ICE enforcement activity that we've seen take place, including the killings of American citizens.

And the way he dealt with the last was simply not to mention it.

Of course, he repeats the somewhat dubious claim that he has single-handedly ended eight wars.

There are a couple he can take credit for, but what's important here is the Democrats kind of laughed at him.

You're sick people.