Updated 8:50 a.m. | President Donald Trump had little to say Wednesday night about his self-created migrant crisis, but in its midst he was quick to suggest the media committed treason with its coverage of his summit with Kim Jong Un.

Speaking to a campaign rally crowd in Minnesota, Trump gave only a brief mention to his decision to keep migrant families together while the parents await prosecution for the misdemeanor of trying to enter the United States illegally. He appeared in no mood to talk about the broader subject, immigration, one of his go-to campaign rally themes.

Trump told a crowd in Duluth that he signed an executive order that will “keep families together,” but — striking a familiar hard-line tone on a topic that helped him win the White House — he assured the friendly audience that “the border is going to be as tough as it has been.” He then moved on to his standard line that “Democrats put illegal immigrants before they put American citizens. What the hell is going on?”

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But — in a break from past rallies during which he railed for several minutes against U.S. immigration laws, previous presidents and Congresses, and the countries from which migrants come and pass through — he quickly moved on to other topics.