PHOENIX—Appealing to his base with a new line of attack against immigrants, former President Donald Trump took to the campaign trail Monday to warn that those in the country illegally were taking all the good vanity plates. “Every day, people come up to me to tell me they can’t get the very clever, personalized license plate they want because it has been stolen away by someone who came here from Mexico or Venezuela,” said Trump, who claimed without evidence that Americans visiting their local DMVs were unable to secure top-tier plates, including ones that read “DOGLOVR,” “HOT ROD,” and “CHILLIN,” because they had already been assigned to vehicles driven by immigrants. “These illegal drivers are taking all the best initials, the plays on words, the ones using the number ‘2’ to mean the word ‘to.’ And it’s so sad. I talked to a man, he had tears in his eyes, he said, ‘Mr. President, my wife has a jeep. I wanted to get her a plate that said JEEPERS. They said no, no JEEPERS, no JEEPER5, not even J33P3RS. It was taken by some Mexican family for their sedan.’ It wasn’t even a jeep—isn’t that terrible, folks?” Trump went on to speculate that if Kamala Harris was elected, she would make it illegal for Americans to register plates that use repeated consecutive letters to imitate vernacular pronunciations such as “DUUUUDE” and “GURRRRL.”
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