Would you visit USA in the current climate?

No !

Tell her the next time she's going on holiday to either of these two places, to publicly disagree with their government polices when she's there and see how she get's on…………

ok then

Ah, a rant about liberalism while dodgy the fact he's incredibly corrupt. On top of that cheated on his wife with a pornstar and even raped a woman. Not exactly a great representation of conservative values.

I was going to go over at the end of May to see friends, but that's been called off for unrelated (medical) reasons, before I booked anything. I wasn't exactly keen on the idea anyway, even though I'm a white middle class male with a clean passport, with no social media presence, doing Preclearance in Dublin.

(If you're thinking of saying "you're on Boards, isn't that 'social media'?": Boards, like Reddit, is more like anti-social media!)

FML, boarding pass in my hand for saturday, business class hoping for first, and since 2011 i have visited sudan. Syria, cuba iran iraq, etc.

Wish me luck:)

Im at a loss here as to am i a terrorist in business class or first class or even economy class

I honestly don't understand this logic. I don't think visiting a country as a tourist equals supporting their government. At most you are contributing to the local private economy, and then the national economy through taxes, but that's miniscule and not exactly a political donation in support of Trump. I mean, I've visited the UK as a tourist plenty of times when Johnson was PM and I never once considered that I was in any way supporting him. I can understand, and even appreciate, boycotting US tourism on moral or ethical grounds, but to paint any and all visitors to America as being supportive of Trump is unfair.

I loath him and the dipsh*ts he has chosen to run the government. But I will be going to America soon to visit a national park that's been on my bucket list for years. I'm not going to let the fact that he is in power prevent me from doing so. That would feel like he has too much influence over my life.

Sitting in a New Jersey bar drinking Guinness, slow immigration queue in JFK as usual but a 2 minute chat with the officer, bags ready when I got to the belt.

But it was fecking weird to see ICE people at the outbound security checks, last time i saw people like that was in Baghdad.

Thanks to the beauty of the internet staying in touch with my Trumpy relations there has never been easier, but having one of them tell me that we have to support Israel because they look like us really makes me prefer not having to visit.

These are people who used to lecture us about British injustice in Northern Ireland. It's like they got some kind of racist infection.

Personally honest I'm not bothered to set foot inside the US for a few years, not until Trump and his Degenerate Republican Party of collaborators and corrupt bastards are gone from power and preferably if they decided to go full scorched earth and prosecute the lot of them for their roles in all of this. It's not the shít with ICE harassing people that just concerns me it's the fact Trump and his ilk are actively trying to undermine the EU at a time when Russia is attacking in Ukraine and covertly in other ways across the continent. Vance trying to stymie Europe by going over to prop up that Vatnik little shít Orban for example and who I really hope the Hungarians can reef him out this weekend with a large enough majority for the opposition to unfúck all the damage he did. Then there's the fuel prices that are gone sky high thanks to Trump going dick first into Iran screwing us all over for the 3rd time in a decade.

I do like the positive aspects of the US and the culture but the current degenerates are not that and neither are those MAGAts either. Until the more decent parts of the US can run them out of town AND clean up the absolute vile amount of shít they've pulled including meaningful prosecutions and holding the Republican Party responsible for all this shít it's better to just avoid the place.