‘Real scum!’ Trump declares MSNBC ‘worse than’ MS-13 gang

President Donald Trump took aim at MSNBC during a cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon at the White House, declaring the network “worse than” two of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations.

During the meeting, Trump took a moment to praise the National Guard troops currently patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital amid the federal government’s takeover of the city’s police department. He briefly tried to recall a video he’d seen of an encounter between troops and alleged gang members before segueing into his attack on MSNBC.

“Those are tough troops, those are not politically correct troops, we don't have politically correct anymore, we have tough guys, tough people, including some tough women,” Trump said.

“I tell you, they showed one scene where a bunch of Tren de Aragua guys or, whatever, maybe MS-13, maybe ‘MSDNC,’ because to me they're worse," the president added. "I think they're worse, MSNBC maybe is worse than Tren de Aragua. Real scum, real scum, real dishonest people.”

Trump’s ongoing mass deportation policy has heavily relied on rhetoric highlighting the criminal activities of gangs like Venezuela's Tren de Aragua and MS-13, which originated in Los Angeles.

Trump himself has also regularly feuded with MSNBC, along with nearly every other major news network on cable television, having dubbed the media as everything from “fake news” to the “enemy of the people.”

On the first day of Trump’s second term, he signed an executive order declaring Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, a designation that exposes many charged under the new standard to the death penalty.

Some experts, however, have predicted that such a designation may end up backfiring on the Trump administration, as European countries that have banned corporal punishment may be hesitant to cooperate with the United States in extraditing defendants.

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