Donald Trump called the California protesters 'thugs and criminals'
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Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was none too thrilled Saturday with the protesters who blocked his way into California's Republican convention the day before:
Leave it to Trump to make an off-color joke about the incident once he made it inside the hotel Friday.
"We went under a fence and through a fence," Trump said. "Oh boy, it felt like I was crossing the border, actually."
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
