Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Maybe one of the tattoo's was celebrating his kid's birthday?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly22xm8kx1o

Finally something to help with the amount of underutilised hotel rooms in the city

Jesus the entire fanbase of 00's skater punk is fuked if that star tattoo can get you sent to El Salvador 🤣

….tells it how it is.

Trump knows that Russia invaded Ukraine. Remember, he was all about saying that under him Putin would have never invaded but Biden was too weak.

He is lying, and repeating that lie often enough that he hopes (and he is correct for his base) that many people will start to at least quesstion that fact and start to think its a 'good people of both sides' arguement. He knows then that rather than calling him out as a liar, people will spend their time arguing about whether the invasion was really as bad as it was made out at the time and maybe Russia are not being treated fairly.

Its all nonesense and Russia aren't helping at all by continuing to refuse any ceasefire and continuing to fire missles. But this is the path Trump has decided to go down and he is now working for Putin

There’s no question of the US taking back any of these “prisoners” - it just won’t happen. America won’t even take back the person sent “in error” - so there’s no way they’ll take back anyone else.

As for ongoing payment, I reckon this will end after they’ve maxed out the prison spaces there - the country will have served its purpose and no longer required - maybe 5-10k prisoners “exported” from America - job done.

5-10k is a relatively small number given their plans to deport millions. If they renege on the El Salvador deal then other countries are unlikely to take in US prisoners.

However in monetary terms its probably a good deal for the US which make it less likely that they'll stop paying. I'm pretty sure I read they are paying El Salvador $25k per prisoner per year. The cost to incarcerate them in the US would be many multiples. I think it's something like €100k per year to incarcerate a prisoner in Ireland, with the privatised system over there you can be sure it costs a lot more than $25k.

EDIT: In Ireland it costs approximately €85k per year to house a prisoner, the median across US states is $65k. Massachusetts has the highest at $307k!!!

I suspect this is a strong arm tactic from the US anyway - they’re not “inviting” countries to take prisoners- they’re likely forcing them to do so or risk any amount of economic backlash