“I think the press is making it – they’re glamorizing these people,” Trump told CBS on Sunday. "These people are animals."
“And the press is making them into something; they’re making them into Robin Hood,” he added. “And young people, and other people, are following.”
Speaking days after last week’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people, Trump said the media should stop referring to those who plot such attacks as “masterminds.”
“I see the word ‘mastermind,’ 'the mastermind.' I call him the guy with the dirty hat, the guy with the filthy, dirty hat,” the billionaire said. “They called him a mastermind, and the kids are watching the mastermind and they say, ‘Oh, I want to be a mastermind.’”
