On CBS’ Face the Nation this morning, Donald Trump called out the press for “glamorizing” terrorists by using terms like “mastermind.”
Host John Dickerson asked Trump how he would fight ISIS’s aggressive internet-based recruitment.
“You fight it with intelligence,” said Trump. “Beating them at their own game. You fight it by not saying mastermind like you did, like other people did. I see the word mastermind. I call them the guy with the dirty hat. These kids are watching the mastermind. ‘I want to be a mastermind.’ The press is really hurting it. I think the press is making it — glamorizing these people. These people are animals. These people are not masterminds. They’re not even smart people I bet they have a very low IQ. They’re not smart people. And the press is making them into something — making them into Robin Hood and young people and other people are following.”