'Makes us look like Nazis': Trump allies told to avoid referring to immigration 'camps'

Allies of Donald Trump have been told to avoid words “like ‘camps’” when discussing the president-elects promise to execute “the largest deportation” operation in U.S. history, Rolling Stone reports.

“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’ that can be twisted and used against the president, yes,” a Trump ally told RS. “Apparently some people think it makes us look like Nazis.”

Despite Trump’s vow to enact mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, members of the president-elect’s team are now concerned about the negative historical comparisons generated by the word “camps.”

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Per Rolling Stone:

Some top Trump advisers get so annoyed when the media refers to his publicly detailed immigration-crackdown plans as including “camps” that they’ve cautioned the president-elect’s allies and surrogates to stop using the word “camps” during the current presidential transition, according to two sources familiar with the situation.

As Rolling Stone reports, the term “camps” originated in Trump’s own orbit. Last year, Trump’s deputy chief of staff pick Stephen Miller “routinely and specifically using the word 'camps' to describe what he and his boss wanted the military to build, should they retake power in 2024.”

According to the report, the Trump campaign even encouraged the New York Times to speak with Miller about Trump’s immigration platform.

“And yet, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the Times article infuriated some of Team Trump’s senior staff, who privately said they believed the reporting made their candidate — the once and future leader of the free world — appear extreme and borderline fascistic, especially on ‘the concentration camps framing,’ a Trump adviser notes,” RS reports.

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Indeed, Trump himself has affirmatively stated “it’s possible” the US will have to build new detention centers for undocumented immigrants.

“ I would not rule out anything,” Trump said in August, according to Time magazine.

Read the full report at Rolling Stone.