Trump on Hispanic Advisory Council member Steve Cortes: 'He looks more like a WASP than I do'

Trump on Hispanic Advisory Council member Steve Cortes: 'He looks more like a WASP than I do'

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE said Hispanic Advisory Council member and prominent Latino pro-Trump commentator Steve Cortes “looks more like a WASP than I do” during his rally in New Mexico on Monday night.

Trump referred to Cortes as a “WASP,” the abbreviation for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, at his rally in Rancho Rio, N.M.

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“He happens to be Hispanic, but I’ve never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do,” Trump said. 

Trump continued that “no one” loves Hispanics or this country more than Cortes and asked him during the rally who he likes more.

“He says the country. I don’t know,” the president said. “I may have to go with the Hispanics, to be honest with you. We’ve got a lot of Hispanics.”