President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[frank ryan]

Trump is considering a travel ban for 40 plus countries. Stupidity Never ends.

[Moliere]

Trump is considering a travel ban for 40 plus countries. Stupidity Never ends.

It better not include France!!

[frank ryan]

It better not include France!!

Well, they are kind of our enemies now.

[frank ryan]

Trump doing dictator stuff and testing the constitution:

Donald Trump has invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelan nationals from the US.

The White House issued a presidential proclamation on Saturday targeting Venezuelan members of the gang Tren de Aragua, saying: “Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.”

Civil liberties organizations have accused Trump of invoking the 1798 act unlawfully during peacetime to accelerate mass deportations and sidestep immigration law.

Hours later, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s administration from using the act to carry out its intended deportations of the Venezuelans.

The US district judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in Washington DC agreed on Saturday to issue a temporary restraining orderthat prevents the Venezuelans’ deportation for 14 days.

“Given the exigent circumstances that it [the court] has been made aware of this morning, it has determined that an immediate Order is warranted to maintain the status quo until a hearing can be set,” Boasberg wrote in his order.

Boasberg’s decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed the same day by the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward. The organizations charge that the Trump administration unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act.

In the lawsuit, ACLU and Democracy Forward argued the act has been invoked only three times in the history of the US: the war of 1812, first world war and second world war.

“It cannot be used here against nationals of a country – Venezuela – with whom the United States is not at war, which is not invading the United States and which has not launched a predatory incursion into the United States,” the lawsuit stated.

“The government’s proclamation would allow agents to immediately put noncitizens on planes without any review of any aspect of the determination that they are alien enemies,” the lawsuit added.

At remote hearing before Boasberg, both ACLU and Democracy Forward asked that the temporary restraining order be broadened to everyone in danger of removal under the act, the civil liberties organizations said.

The president had previously ordered his administration to designate Venezuela’s Tren De Aragua gang as a foreign terrorist organization.

With Trump characterizing the gang as a foreign force that is invading the US, civil liberties organizations such as the ACLU feared Trump would invoke the 1798 act “unlawfully during peacetime to accelerate mass deportations, sidestepping the limits of this wartime authority and the procedures and protections in immigration law”.

The 227-year-old law is designed to primarily be used in wartime, and only Congress has the authority to declare a war. But the president does have the discretion to invoke the law to defend against a “threatened or ongoing invasion or predatory incursion”, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan authority on law and policy.

“This law shouldn’t be invoked because migration is not an invasion, and we’re not in a war time,” said Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, the deputy director of federal advocacy for United We Dream, an immigrant rights organization. “It’s extremely horrifying that we, as immigrants, are being labeled as terrorists, as invaders.”

Those subject to the Alien Enemies Act could be deported without a court hearing or asylum interview, and their cases would be governed by wartime authority rather than by immigration law.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...t-deportations

[Northwestcoug]

Why would ICE spend a lot more money and energy going after criminals here illegally when they can pick low-hanging fruit like this?

In addition to Muñoz, USA TODAY has confirmed through attorneys, family members and documents that ICE has detained for weeks:

• a woman in her 50s who has lived in the country more than 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen;
• a woman in her 30s with proof of valid permanent legal residency, whose father and siblings are U.S. citizens, and who first came to the U.S. as a teen;
• a European woman in her 30s engaged to a U.S. citizen who overstayed her visa when she was 21;
• a woman engaged to a U.S. legal permanent resident, with whom she has lived for nine years.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s/82304354007/

[LVAllen]

Trump doing dictator stuff and testing the constitution:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...t-deportations

A district court blocked this. When he found out two planes had already taken off, he ordered them turned around (he acknowledged he couldn't order any planes that had already landed to do anything, but that wasn't the case here). It proceeded to land in El Salvador instead. Marco Rubio was crowing about the "deportations" today. He did not mention the court order.

So we're now into ignoring judicial orders in favor of What Trump Wants. Super cool, very constitutional.

[Maximus]

Trump is all 3 branches of govt

Only took 1 month

[PaloAltoCougar]

I assume most have seen this, but I love this commercial.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=608109442057982

Trump had a prepared script for his sales pitch. And Musk as a federal employee is clearly violating conflict of interest laws, while Trump continues to debase the White House. And the gilding of the Oval Office reflects both poor taste and a demeaning of the institution. And yet, given that it's Trump, all this goes into the "Dog Bites Man!" file.

[chrisrenrut]

When will Trump have taken things too far for the average American? I know his MAGA base probably doesn’t have a bottom, but where will the tipping point be for Americans be? What might get some republican congresspeople to openly revolt against him?

• ignoring court orders (kind of already happening)
• military invasion in Panama, Greenland, and/or Canada
• Some kind of evidence he is compromised by Putin
• full on recession

[USUC]

When will Trump have taken things too far for the average American? I know his MAGA base probably doesn’t have a bottom, but where will the tipping point be for Americans be? What might get some republican congresspeople to openly revolt against him?

• ignoring court orders (kind of already happening)
• military invasion in Panama, Greenland, and/or Canada
• Some kind of evidence he is compromised by Putin
• full on recession

When inflation and higher prices don't subside by summer of 2026

[frank ryan]

When inflation and higher prices don't subside by summer of 2026

How about some of the military and diplomatic stuff?

[USUC]

How about some of the military and diplomatic stuff?

Most Americans are apathetic to that stuff unfortunately.

[Northwestcoug]

Most Americans are apathetic to that stuff unfortunately.

Apropos of this, I saw one poll showing Trump’s favorables the highest they’ve ever been (still below 50%).

unfortunately the really important stuff for the future of the country, like the daily assault on separation of powers, just doesn’t hit like inflation does.

[Maximus]

why is there silence from all the R trump "skeptics" in congress?

[falafel]

why is there silence from all the R trump "skeptics" in congress?

The who?? Those people either left voluntarily or got scared back into their hovels by a Trump primary threat.