Trump Explains Real Reason He Keeps Talking About Hannibal Lecter
Former President Donald Trump gave an explanation for why he continues to bring up Hannibal Lecter—the fictional serial killer played by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs—at his rallies.
“You know when I go Hannibal Lecter, you know what I am talking about,” Trump told the crowd in a bizarre town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Monday. His latest mention of the cannibal serial killer came after he was asked a question about what he would do to bring down inflation.
The Republican nominee also expressed anger at the media for highlighting the reference to the fictional character. “It’s a way of demeaning, they say ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention [Hannibal Lecter]?’ Well you know why—because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country.”