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

I had no idea it was the job of the marines to detain people in the country they are supposed to protect. Could have sworn it was the police’s job to do that…

Hopefully he chokes on his happy meal toy.

I'd actually tend to agree but equally I'd view Trump to be sending the US in an incredibly authoritarian direction. You seem to be fine with it though.

The Marines were deployed to protect federal buildings, a man approached a federal building as was detained by the Marines until local law enforcement came to take custody of the person. It's certainly not the Marines going around arresting civilians on the streets.

I'd imagine the same situation would have happened if one were to try walk onto a military base. They would certainly be within their rights to detain you.

Arrested for approaching a federal building?

So anyone approaching a post office is now liable for arrest?

And you see nothing wrong with that?

Not sure even they asked if he was just on a sightseeing tour. Wasn't that the excuse for Jan 6th.

Exactly... But, as I'm finding here, some posters are so anti-Trump and biased that they don't consider the bare facts/evidence or the full story - instead they see only the perspective that fits their beliefs. It's starting to seem like there's an anti-MAGA brigade emerging that are just as biased as the MAGA devotees in how they view events, just on the opposite side.

And by the way, given the background of the ex-soldier detained and the likelihood he would be anti-Trump and his immigration policies, it would not surprise me in the slightest if he orchestrated the incident to generate negative publicity for Trump.

Trump said he could not send in national guard troops without any state governor's permission, yet this is what he has done in California.

If you support the end of US democracy I can see why you'd support Trump.

Thanks for validating my point.

I would think you know pretty well that I don't support Trump. But trying to polarise things (like Trump ironically does) by implying that anyone you disagree with is a Trump supporter is childish to be honest.

If the cops had been patroling the area instead and had detained someone for crossing police tapes, then there would be no story in this particular case.

You think this random guy created protests such that Trump would send in the NG and the Marines and then decide that suddenly federal buildings needed protection and then put himself in garms way all to generate negative Trump headlines?

Why the building taped off? What specific threats had it come under?

What specifically did this guy do that warranted his arrest and dentetion? Was he really a threat to the building or the soldiers?

There is nothing anti Trump about it. He has sent the Marines, a killing machine designed to kill US enemies and sent them into a US city under the flimsiest of reasons and now those troops are detaining civilians. A job the police are meant to do, and we'll capable of doing.

But yeah, just another lined crossed as peoples right are errorded before their eyes but they want to give Trump every chance that he won't turn out to be the wannabe dictator that he is so obviously working towards.

Not just a post of laughable nonsense, one that has your own shirt-tails showing for all to see.

You groundlessly accuse others of bias for not considering the bare facts/evidence or the full story. Instead seeing only the perspective that fits their beliefs, and then you follow up with "given the the background of the ex-soldier detained and the likelihood he would be anti-Trump and his immigration policies, it would not surprise me in the slighhtest if he orchestrated the incident to generate negative publicity for Trump".

Had you bothered to do what you accuse others of not doing, then you would know that is a complete load of steaming manure. The gentleman in question when interviewed made no reference to Trump or his immigration policies and said he was just taking a short-cut to the veteran affairs office in the building.