Donald Trump took the stage at a Miami rally with fresh introduction music from “Les Misérables.” | AP Photo Trump channels 'Les Deplorables,' says Hillary Clinton's Secret Service detail should disarm

MIAMI -- Donald Trump channeled his inner Jean Valjean Friday night, taking the stage at a Miami rally with fresh introduction music from “Les Misérables” in front of a digital banner bearing the words “Les Deplorables” and a photo-shopped image from the musical.

And it wasn't long before he sounded more like Javert, raising the possibility of violence against Hillary Clinton, suggesting that her Secret Service detail disarm because of her support for gun control.


"Guns, gun, guns, right? I think what we should do is -- she goes around with armed guards like you have never seen before. I think that her armed bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm, right? Immediately -- what do you think? Yes? Yes? Take their guns away! She doesn't want guns. Let's see what happens to her."

Trump, like all presidential candidates, is protected by armed Secret Service agents. In fact, a number of them aided Miami Police officers in removing protesters from his rally here Friday evening at the convention center downtown.

Later Friday, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook condemned Trump's "disturbing behavior," saying, "this kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate."

The “Les Deplorables” image, which flashed up on a projection screen that hung over the stage as he entered to loud cheers, is a play on Clinton's comments at a fundraiser last weekend, where the Democratic nominee said half of Trump’s supporters could be categorized in a “basket of deplorables.”

Trump, who entered the Miami rally with “Can you Hear the People Sing” blaring from the speaker, seized on the remark from Clinton.

“Welcome to all of you deplorables,” the Republican nominee said as he kicked off his remarks, eliciting applause from the crowd.

The Manhattan billionaire also seized on another portion of Clinton’s remark from last week’s fundraiser, in which she said those in the basket of deplorables are “irredeemable.” Trump accused Clinton of “slandering” his followers with the remark.

“Boy that second word is tough. You don’t hear that as much, but that means you’re never going to come back, folks. And I know you’re going to come back,” Trump said. “We’re going to come back so strong. We’re going to be so strong. Stronger than ever before. Irredeemable, they don’t talk about that one, but that was, to me, pretty bad.”

Throughout the rally, Trump deviated from his scripted remarks and the teleprompter, returning to the freewheeling style that propelled him through the GOP primary but hindered his ability to broaden his support for months after becoming the Republican nominee.

Trump made no reference to his unapologetic statement Friday morning in Washington in which he finally stated, after five years of perpetuating the conspiracy theory that's come to be known as "birtherism," that "President Obama was born in the United States."

He did make another reference to Clinton's health in no uncertain terms, after avoiding the subject earlier in the week when his rival had been off the campaign trail recovering from pneumonia.

"She does not have a ton of energy," he said. "You need energy."

It's a similar attack to the "low energy" label he stuck on native son Jeb Bush, when he vanquished the former Florida governor early in the GOP primary.