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He didn't liken migrants to Hannibal Lecter. It's a little hard to tell exactly what he meant, but what he said was that he was a wonderful man, and then he called him the late great Hannibal Lecter, and then he told him congratulations. Saying foreign countries are sending Hannibal Lecters into our country is one interpretation but honestly who knows.
Here's the video; the relevant part of the transcript in context is:
I think he was using hannibal lecter as an example of someone in an insane asylum. He seems to be a fan of the cannibal though so it's quite confusing.
Yeah. You could say he’s being sarcastic when he praises Lecter, and his actual point is that some of the people that countries are “sending” the to US, as part of their government immigrant-sending programs apparently, are cannibals. But that is also an insane thing to say so it’s really hard to tell.
I think his brain is just falling apart and he didn’t care much in the first place whether what he says had any connection to reality, and so this is the kind of thing that falls out.