I neither watched nor listened. I’m not a masochist.

Let us read.

My fellow Americans: Tonight, I am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.

Every day, Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country.  We are out of space to hold them, and we have no way to promptly return them back home to their country.

Big lie right there. Many or most of them are not “illegal immigrants” but asylum seekers. It is fully legal and a human right to seek asylum. Trump doesn’t like that, but Trump’s dislike doesn’t make something not true.

Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we don’t act right now.

Big lie. The crime rate is lower among immigrants.

This is a humanitarian crisis — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And if Trump really thought of it as a humanitarian crisis and a crisis of the heart, he would talk about asylum seekers with sympathy instead of loathing and contempt.

In places he improves on Steven Miller’s scrip with interpolations of his own, like the two in this paragraph:

My administration has presented Congress with a detailed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and human traffickers.  It’s a tremendous problem.  Our proposal was developed by law enforcement professionals and border agents at the Department of Homeland Security.  These are the resources they have requested to properly perform their mission and keep America safe.  In fact, safer than ever before.

Trumpisms in red. I don’t know that for certain, but those sure look like Trumpy blurts breaking up the more normal officialese.

The border wall would very quickly pay for itself.   The cost of illegal drugs exceeds $500 billion a year — vastly more than the $5.7 billion we have requested from Congress.  The wall will also be paid for, indirectly, by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico.

And yet, as we all know, that’s not what he said. He said, several million times, that Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico said like hell it would, but that never slowed Trump down. He said Mexico would pay for the wall, over and over and over.

Day after day, precious lives are cut short by those who have violated our borders.

And precious lives are cut short by those who were born here, but at a higher rate. Immigrants as a group commit less crime, not more.

Over the last several years, I’ve met with dozens of families whose loved ones were stolen by illegal immigration.  I’ve held the hands of the weeping mothers and embraced the grief-stricken fathers.  So sad.  So terrible.  I will never forget the pain in their eyes, the tremble in their voices, and the sadness gripping their souls.

How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?

To those who refuse to compromise in the name of border security, I would ask: Imagine if it was your child, your husband, or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken?

He’s trying to emote people into thinking immigrants=murderers. It’s a variation on the blood libel, and it’s disgusting.