This is just a cultural thing. “Lynching” in Spain doesn’t quite carry the same kind of horrible baggage that it carries in the US. From what I see here, he seems to just be using it the way your average Spaniard would use it, which is quite different, more casual and with less of the negative connotations that it has…

Why would that be a surprise? We all know he likes to be surrounded by like-minded individuals.

No, no, no. I have it on good authority that the nearest hellmouth was moved just a few months ago, and the new address is 1600 Penn. A shorter commute was simply essential, you see

“The Pennsylvania Avenue Police recently issued a bulletin advising citizens to be on the lookout for a renewed wave of orange clown sightings similar to the one that swept America last fall”.