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

If this keeps up I reckon in a couple of weeks there'll be talk of the UN finding a new home.

EU issuing burner phones and basic laptops to officials travelling to the USA

Normally reserved for trips to China or Ukraine where risk of IT surveillance is high.

Jesus wept, who'd have predicted that last November?

Re: the poor dude that is illegally held in a foreign territory; against the will of the supreme court… can they not just send Marshalls in to free him, take him back to the US and allow due process to happen?

Of all the **** the Trump admin are pulling; I honestly believe this is the most troubling. Everyone on the planet should be demanding Andry José Hernández is released and returned.. because it's only gonna be the start of it if they think they can get away with it once

Trump on Zelenskyy!

"He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."

What a despicable c*nt. I don't know if he genuinely believes Ukraine started the war or if he is just parroting Russian propaganda, but either way, he is a sh*t stain on the American history books.

Just seen a pic of the lad that was illegally deported and their all calling to be brought back ,gang banger tatts all over him ,look at the pics and Google what each one means ,might shut a few people up .

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That's not the point. He had gone before a judge in 2019 who said he cannot be deported to El Salvador and was given a work permit. ICE then suddenly decided this year his status had randomly changed without any further due process and was shipped off to El Salvador's prison. The government's lawyer than admitted in court that his deportation was a mistake but the Trump administration is doing nothing to correct that mistake, and even worse, is practically celebrating the fact he is in prison. They are also ignoring the SC on this matter.

No amount of tattoos can make that sequence of events ok.

Feel free to go ahead and share a picture and explain each of the tattoos that means someone is now exempt from due process and Supreme Court protection.

But they do have considerable influence. They could, for example, make it clear to El Salvador that they will no longer pay El Salvador to warehouse large numbers of American deportees unless El Salvador can find a way to return any of them who turns out to have been deported mistakenly or illegally, and whose return is requested.

I feel confident that the El Salvadorean government would be receptive to this.

Good of you to accept the truth that he was illegally deported and not Trumps team line [that he was a person in the US illegally] on the basis that he had tattoos.

They have gotten away with it plenty times before... Only reason its different now is before it was somewhat hidden, now the president is openly advocating for it. Its not new news.

In Russia nobody thrusts anybody , workmates do not trust eachother, students can report what the teacher said, etc, etc, etc, etc. If you ‘step out of line’ in Russia - and especially in a public place- your chances of being reported on to the police is very high and away they go with you to !!!!!!!!!!?
is the same going to happen in America and one could end up in the ‘anti MEGA /Trump camp’ and be hassled / lose your job, be denied finance /end up in El Salvador.

So Americans need to be very careful that they do not walk ‘ on any toes’ and avoid. Being ‘DISLIKED’ by anyone - even for no reason

Its already at the point of a police state.

Trump is goading his opposition in public, there will eventually be civil disobedience and that will be the pretext to call in the army. Its the standard playbook.

There is very little that can be done to stop this.

Rising against his regime will come at enormous personal consequences to anyone putting their head about the parapet and will only accelerate the totalitarian takeover.

The last protection of American democracy was the Courts, and Trump is just openly flouting them now.

DHS are his gestapo. A horribly cynical and authoritarian department set up in response to 9/11, from inception they were always a threat to democracy and now they're in the wrong hands

that seems to be the case ‘right across the board’. Have a look at the U tube , I think, of that cabinet meeting where Trump got all of his secetaries to report on the WONDERFUL progress they are all making in their departments. He was flanked by Rubio and Hegseath and they did a lot of nodding at the various Trump utterances eg “ you are doing a wonderful job Pam’ (Bondi)