One of Donald Trump’s top Latino supporters wants you to be afraid – very afraid – of … taco trucks?
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Mr Gutierrez’s alert came the night after Mr Trump delivered a fiery speech outlining his hardline immigration plan, which would include stepping up deportations and building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
We can’t speak to Gutierrez’s issue with taco trucks, but it turns out a lot of other people would be OK with having them everywhere. “I don’t even know what that means and I’m nearly afraid to ask”.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough stirred laughter throughout his show’s NY studio with his enthusiastic response: “That sounds like an America that I want to live in”, he said, observing that he wouldn’t have to hire any more taco trucks for family parties.
Unsurprisingly, Trump surrogate’s deliciously ominous prophecy backfired spectacularly. It’s imposing and it’s causing problems.
Aside from lots of fresh, delicious, low-priced food, what are the real implications of the Latinos for Trump warning?
“Make corners great again!” went another response, a riff on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.
“I’m offended”, Espaillat quickly said, before Gutierrez intervened. He added, “But I know that the Hispanic culture has a saying-a very prominent saying: Mi casa, tu casa”.
I was born in San Francisco where in some sections of the city there was a taco truck on every corner, I am now living in a small city in Virginia where there are no taco trucks. “There was so much hope”, said Jacob Monty, a former member Trumps Hispanic advisory council said.
It’s not the first taco-related controversy for the Trump campaign: earlier this year, the Republican presidential candidate pushed out a photo of himself dining on Trump Tower Grill’s signature “taco bowl” and declaring “I love Hispanics!”
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As #Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president last summer, he made headlines by referring to illegal immigrants from Mexico as “murderers” and “rapists”.
