Did they say anything about those barbaric immigrants eating all of those normal Americans pets? Eating all the cats and dogs. Maybe someone was talking to him about the weather and he mistook the comments about cats and dogs.
apparently the story started when someone in Springfield claimed they saw a Mexican catching a duck in a public park.
that morphed online into Mexicans eating peoples cats and dogs.
trump took as fact and recounted on live international TV and was real time fact checked as untrue by the moderator who had spoke to the towns mayor,
and trump doubled down.
I reckon only the bottom 5th percentile of cognitive ability couldn't or wouldn't discern the lie and the dog whistle