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Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:10 PM Sep 2025

U.S. presidents used to promote and encourage democracy when abroad; Trump's encouraging fascism

President departs Britain after telling Starmer to call in military against migrants

Trump told the UK prime minister to take a tougher line on tackling illegal migration, saying: “You have people coming in, and I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn’t matter if you call out the military, it doesn’t matter what means you use.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-uk-visit-live-president-tells-starmer-to-call-in-the-military-against-illegal-migration/ar-AA1MAt2j


"You have people coming in and I told the prime minister I would stop it, and it doesn't matter if you call out the military, it doesn't matter what means you use," Trump said.

In a later interview with Fox News, he urged Sir Keir to take a "strong stand" against immigration, saying it was hurting him "badly".

Speaking during the joint press conference, Trump said illegal immigration "destroys countries from within."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd91wjypj9o


...an American president who has used outright lies and inhumane arrests and detentions against migrants in the U.S., and not just against 'illegal' migrants, spreading his maga republican politics of hate, division, autocracy, and militarism against his country's own people; advocating abroad for the heavy hand of other nations' militaries to posture, threaten, and drive migrants out of their own populations, ostensibly with the same uncaring prevarications and pretexts he's inflicting on America.

"It doesn't matter if you call out the military, it doesn't matter what means you use," Trump told the British prime minister.

It's a damnable disgrace.
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U.S. presidents used to promote and encourage democracy when abroad; Trump's encouraging fascism (Original Post) bigtree Sep 2025 OP
What kind of country does he envision for the future? Klarkashton Sep 2025 #1

Klarkashton

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1. What kind of country does he envision for the future?
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 09:23 PM
Sep 2025

He's an 80 year old duffer that has no vision just a bunch of old stale gripes that make no.logocal sense.
We are quickly devolving into a country full of magas that live off various govt relief plans and contribute nothing. Most of the proud boy assholes are on disability plans of one sort or another.
Who is going to do the backbone work?

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