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

But by using your own numbers and criteria, the vast majority of the reduction in apprehensions at the border happened under biden.

Its a sad state to be in when you think trump failing again is somehow winning.

I was fascinated by the United States in my forties and fifties.

I managed several visits there and did many tours during the nineties and noughties.

I very much enjoyed all my visits but I'm glad I did them then. I wouldn't even dream of going there now in the present climate. It feels like an alien country at present.

Do you think those reported "encounters" and aprehensions include cases such as this -

?

According to AZPM’s report, Hermosillo was visiting the Tucson area from Albuquerque, got lost without identification and was arrested by border patrol officials near its headquarters in Nogales. Hermosillo’s girlfriend’s family made numerous calls looking for him before they discovered he was being held at the Florence Correctional Center, a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility. After his arrest, the court docket shows, he was temporarily detained in the custody of the US marshals.

After the family tracked him done, they provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a US citizen, but they didn’t believe him,” Hermosillo’s girlfriend’s aunt told AZPM. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have, if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court, and gave that to Ice and the border patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”

Vance being the last politician to meet the pope calls to mind The Omen movies

I don't need to say so. The figures speak for themselves.

The MAGA way seems to be the "we need a strongman in charge of us" way. Shame that a nation [the US] born of the opposite view and intent should be swallowed up by the style of two other nations critically opposed to the style the US was born to.

Shame that those who talked [during the last Trump impeachment trial] about the US being a nation of laws should mostly have been of the Democratic Party.

It's good that there are public protest marches and events being held in US cities across the nation against Trump, regardless of the varied causes they espouse. One can only wish them well in their venture and hope that Trump is not allowed try a Lafayette Park manoeuvre against the protests. There would be only one outcome to that and that would be bloody.

I wonder if Trump will insist on making the popes funeral about himself. "Nobody loved the pope more than me, I'm actually super Catholic, no one is more Catholic than me, although that would American Catholic, which is the best Catholic, all other Catholics are losers.." etc

"Jesus didn't like illegals, I mean what are they hiding, right? Maybe he liked Mexicans, I don't know, are they really christian, who knows, right? Anyway I want Saint Peters, I think it would be great as a Caeser's Palace casino, so much marble and gold, I'd be a home, although I'd build a gold plated elevator to the dome, and passport checks at the door, you can't just let anyone in, they're all thieves, right?" etc…