Donald Trump appeared at a border town in Texas to succinctly explain the immigration policy he implemented as the former president.
"If you broke the law, we caught you, we deported you," Trump said. "Or we did something else."
The "something else" Trump reference in his Eagle Pass speech Thursday afternoon remained open to interpretation hours later among viewers who caught video of the statement on X.
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"Did something else?" asked X user blackbird. Fellow commenters were quick to fill in the blank.
X user Art Martin referenced New York Times from 2019 on then-President Trump's quiet effort to shed undocumented workers hired to tend to his social club.
"We caught you, we deported you," replied Martin. "...or we made you work at Mar-A-Lago."
Several X users recalled the globally condemned policy, which critics equated to torture, of separating parents from their children at the southern border.
"A new technical fascist term for torturing scapegoat minorities," wrote Vlada Knowlton: “Something else”
"Mostly they did something else," added KathleenFrances. "They took your kids, they released you, lost you and lost your kids."
ForbesTonow suggested Trump simply suffered from a lapse of memory, writing, "Something else ...that he can't quite remember?"
Others took the opportunity of another person accused of breaking the law: the former president, who faces four criminal cases in Washington D.C., Florida, New York, and Georgia.
"We indicted you on 91 felonies," retorted BizzleMcDizzle.
@bee_langbein had a question: "Can we deport him?"
