Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

I think many people will end up opting to visit Canada instead, including the FX bargain hunters given that America's betrayal has damaged the Canadian dollar also. It ticks many of the same boxes without the potential immigration drama, while offering a bit of economic solidarity to people being put upon by a bunch of absolute ars*holes.

Power on phone and laptop to go through them is a hard no from me. I'm aware that plenty of countries do this on entry but I get the impression that the US policy is currently more aggressive than most.

Just checked my employer policies

Basically have to report this and work laptop or phone wiped asap

Well done for posting the experience and what happened- the more stories we get the more accurate a picture of just what exactly is happening at pre-clearance .

In terms of some people mentioning relative quiet of the US boarding area, possibly the week before Easter is the calm before the storm- I imagine even if numbers are down slightly on previous years, the airport will be packed full of people flying to America

If it was your own private phone (or your boss'es there would still be information about other people that might be confidential to them (they might be happy for you to hsve that information but not a third party)

Have the police always had the power to go through people's phones even when they are not guilty or suspected of anything criminal?

Have customs always had this power?

Edit :and they can record all this data?

It's just more lies.

Everything about them is a lie.

America offshored it's business out to places like China & India 20+ years ago because they were greedy bastards, who didn't give a **** about the lives that were destroyed because of it, and now they're whining like little bitches because the places they outsourced to are enjoying the increased GDP because of it and the US is in the ha'penny place having to import stuff that they once made.

Jesus, who knew?

This idea that Trump, Lutnick and other MAGA twats are throwing around that China somehow took their manufacturing base is bullshit. You gave away your business and now you're crying.

This crowd just keep lying and lying and I can't believe that there's nobody taking them to task on it. If ever a country needed a Jeremy Paxman figure, it's the US.

I don't think Trump has had any crediblity for a long time — not even his fans pretend that anything he says is to be believed. What has taken a battering over the last couple of weeks is the credibility of the United States.

Various Trump enablers have told themselves that they can profit from, or take pleasure in, his disruption and destruction, but they have believed or assumed that those around him will in the end restrain him from doing anything truly disastrous, or the famous checks and balances of the US political system will kick in. It's now clear that neither of those things are going to happen; that nobody may be able to save the US from Trump. When US government bonds are seen as more risky than Greek government bonds, you know the US has burned financial credibility in a way the markets would never before have imagined possible. That's not a loss of crediblity for Trump, but for the US, and even if Trump and the MAGA movement are removed from office, that degree of credibility will not easily be recovered. The markets will always price in the knowldge that, if the UK elected an obviously corrupt, incompetent and antidemocratic president like Trump before, they can do so again.

Trump has effectively destroyed the reputation of the United States in record time.

He basically destroyed existing contracts, like NAFTA exchanged that with his own agreement on his first presidency and upon the 2nd presidency he destroyed again, what he created in the frist presidency, bullies Canada into becoming the 51st state, bullies Greenland and Denmark, imposes tariffs and expects others to accept his "awesome deal".

It's a bit of a mafia style protection racket.

One should never foreget that Trump is a convicted convict who evaded sentencing or jail.

I kept waiting for him t get to the part where he says “Yes they crucified Jesus, just like they tried to cruciffy me. In fact, think of it, what they did to me in 2020 was worse in many ways. Nobody has ever seen an attempted crucifixion like it.”

And the trustworthiness of the agents?

Simon getting nervous, pharma tariffs must be imminent.

RTE news : 'Inappropriate' for US to hit pharma amid talks - Harris

http://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0414/1507562-tariffs-european-commissioner/

Those checks and balances will sort it out

Because its cheaper in the short term to use more toxic sh1te and they don't care about people who cant afford healthcare or insurance that will likely be impacted the most by the use of these chemicals