As of last month, Donald Trump has a 79% disapproval rating among Hispanics, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that he kicked off his bid for the presidency in 2015 by calling Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals” and has spent the past two and half years in office talking about protecting the white base from everyone else. Undeterred by the odds, the president made a stop in New Mexico last night in an attempt to drum up support among Latino voters, and the rally was truly one for the ages in that it involved one cringeworthy moment after the next.

“Yesterday marked the beginning of the Hispanic Heritage Month—who’s Hispanic here?” Trump asked, kicking things off. “Incredible people…we have much to celebrate.” Later, in an attempt to show that lots of his friends are Hispanic, the president pointed out CNN contributor Steve Cortes, and then wondered aloud how he could be Hispanic despite blending in so well with white people. “He happens to be Hispanic, but I never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do,” Trump said of Cortes. Then he asked Cortes, “Who do you like more, the country or Hispanics?”

Perhaps surprised that Cortes mouthed “country,” Trump replied, “I don’t know. I may have to go for the Hispanics, to be honest with you. We got a lot of Hispanics.” Then he claimed that Hispanics in the audience love his deeply unpopular, racist wall. “At the center of America’s drug crisis, this is where the Hispanics know it better than anybody. People said, ‘Oh, the Hispanics won’t like a wall.’ I said, ‘I think they are going to love it.’ You know why? Because you understand it better than other people, but at the whole center of this crisis is the drugs that are pouring in, and you understand that when other people don’t understand it.”

The Trump campaign has insisted that when the president disparages brown people, he’s only specifically referring to criminals and bad actors—like, apparently, four law-abiding congresswomen—and not people who follow the rules. As he has frequently said right after uttering something wildly racist, Trump claimed last night, “I’m the least racist person in this room,” and then talked up all the things he’s supposedly doing for the Latino community. “We are working night and day to deliver a future of limitless opportunities for our nation’s Hispanic-American citizens,” Trump said in the one portion of the night he seemingly stuck to the script, “including millions and millions of extraordinary Mexican-Americans who enrich our society, and strengthen our country, serve in our military, and contribute immensely to our shared American family.” Touting his imaginary support among Hispanics, he asked, “How do I lose New Mexico? Explain that one,” before adding, “Nobody loves the Hispanics more. We love our Hispanics, get out and vote.”

Unsurprisingly, the rally received low marks from people whose views on race haven’t been shaped by Fox News. “Tonight Trump said, ‘Who do you love more, the country or the Hispanics?’” Representative Ben Ray Luján, who is running for Senate in New Mexico, wrote on Twitter. “I don’t even know where to begin with that question. Hispanics are proud Americans. We are part of this country, just like you @realdonaldtrump. Do better.”

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