就在总统说犹太裔美国人对以色列和美国有双重忠诚的一个月后，唐纳德·特朗普决定利用新墨西哥州集会质疑西班牙裔美国人对这个国家的热爱。
周一晚上，奥巴马在该州说，他在2016年输了8个百分点，他对人群说，“我们爱我们的西班牙裔”，并说西班牙裔比非西班牙裔对毒品问题有更好的理解。然后他开始谈论史蒂夫·科尔特斯，一位有线电视新闻网的撰稿人，总统说他看起来是欧洲人，而不是西班牙裔。“他碰巧是西班牙裔，但我从未完全弄明白，因为他看起来比我更像黄蜂，”他说。
总统随后直接询问了在场的科尔特斯。"你更喜欢谁，国家还是西班牙裔？"他问道。当科尔特斯似乎对这个国家做出回答时，特朗普说，“我不知道。老实说，我可能得去找西班牙裔。我们有很多西班牙人。”
总统后来问人群，他怎么可能在新墨西哥州输了，并讨论了美国的非法毒品使用。“在美国毒品危机的中心，这是西班牙人比任何人都清楚的地方，人们说，‘哦，西班牙人不会喜欢墙的。’“我说，‘我想他们会喜欢的，’”特朗普说你知道为什么吗？因为你比其他人更了解这一点，但这场危机的核心是涌入的毒品，当其他人不理解时，你就明白了。"
华盛顿邮报和美国广播公司本月早些时候的一项民意调查显示，总统在西班牙裔选民中的支持率为25%，明显低于他38%的总体支持率。尽管如此，这并没有阻止总统宣称他的工作被西班牙裔美国人认可，自他上任以来已经上升了17个百分点。总统没有提到他指的是哪一项民意测验新闻周刊找不到它。新墨西哥的人口大约有50%是西班牙裔。
上个月，总统还质疑美国犹太人的忠诚。
总统在椭圆形办公室对记者说:“我认为任何投票给民主党的犹太人，都表明要么完全缺乏知识，要么非常不忠。”。“在我看来，你投票给民主党人，你对犹太人非常不忠诚，对以色列非常不忠诚。”
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RAISES QUESTIONS OF DUAL LOYALTY AMONGST HISPANIC AMERICANS
Just one month after the president said that Jewish Americans had a dual-loyalty to Israel and the U.S., Donald Trump decided to use a New Mexico rally to question Hispanic Americans' love of the country as well.
Speaking in the state that he lost by 8 points in 2016, the president on Monday night told the crowd that "we love our Hispanics," and said that Hispanics had a better understanding of problems with drugs coming over the southern border than non-Hispanics. He then began talking about Steve Cortes, a CNN contributor who the president said looked to be of European, not Hispanic descent. "He happens to be Hispanic, but I never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do," he said.
The president then questioned Cortes, who was at the event, directly. "Who do you like more, the country or Hispanics?" he asked. When Cortes seemingly answered with the country, Trump said, "I don't know. I may have to go for the Hispanics, to be honest with you. We got a lot of Hispanics."
The president later asked the crowd how it was possible that he lost in New Mexico and discussed illegal drug use in the U.S. "And at the center of America's drug crisis, this is where the Hispanics know it better than anybody, people said, 'Oh, the Hispanics won't like a wall.' I said, 'I think they are going to love it,'" Trump said. "You know why? Because you understand it better than other people, but at the whole center of this crisis is the drugs that are pouring in, and you understand that when other people don't understand it."