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(CNN) Mr. President, brown people speak English.

At a White House event on Monday, billed as "Salute to the Heroes of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection," President Donald Trump called to the stage a Latino Border Patrol agent, Adrian Anzaldua.

"Adrian, come here. I want to ask you a question," Trump said . "So how did you -- come here. Come here. You're not nervous, are you?" Addressing the audience, Trump then added, "speaks perfect English."

To put it bluntly, that's what it sounds like when someone as racist as Trump tries to give a compliment to a person of color.

Trump's remark speaks volumes about how he views Latinos. To him, members of the country's largest minority group will likely always seem foreign, even if they are US law enforcement officers. Over and over again, the attitude we've seen Trump display toward Latinos can be described as somewhere between ignorant and hostile.