<p>President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> name-dropped a movie featuring Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage while defending the use of handcuffs to restrain illegal aliens aboard deportation flights out of the United States.</p>
<p>Trump referenced Cage&#8217;s 1997 action-movie &#8220;Con-Air&#8221; — in which a handful of convicts take over control of a plane that was supposed to be used to transport them to a new facility — and then argued that by keeping detainees handcuffed, federal immigration authorities were essentially attempting to prevent a similar scenario from playing out on their watch.</p>
<p>Responding to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-slams-trump-admin-for-shipping-illegals-back-in-handcuffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaints</a> from Brazilian officials about the fact that detainees had been handcuffed for their deportation flights — a practice that was also standard during former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration — Trump made it clear that he was not planning to make any changes.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were being scolded because we had them in shackles in an airplane,&#8221; Trump said of the Brazilian official. &#8220;And he said, ‘This is no way to treat people.’ Now, you gotta understand these are murderers, drug lords, gang members, just the toughest people you’ve ever met or seen.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> just compared to the Mass Deportation flights to Con Air 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/MYyZrrCZAl">pic.twitter.com/MYyZrrCZAl</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Steak for Breakfast (@SteakforPodcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteakforPodcast/status/1884016972268200343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;How would you like to be the pilot of a plane? You got two pilots up there and you got 300 people sitting in a plane — every one of them either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin of some kind, the head of the mob, or a gang member — and you’re flying that plane,&#8221; Trump continued, predicting, &#8220;It’s not gonna end well.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You ever see the movie &#8216;Con-Air&#8217;? That&#8217;s what — yeah &#8230; Except here’s the difference: the people in &#8216;Con-Air&#8217; were actors. They weren’t nearly as tough as these guys,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;I would say that that plane would be gone before it ever left. Those pilots would be gone before it ever left. So, they don’t want us to shackle them. I don’t want to be in that plane.&#8221;</p>

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