'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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trump is doing his best to kill tourism in the US.

The Felon-in-Chief has already cut tourism in half, now he's going to kill it altogether.

'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown

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— The Web Optimist (@weboptimist.bsky.social) 2025-12-10T21:23:22.130Z

https://www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-tourism/?utm_source=superhead

President Donald Trump was under fire from critics on Wednesday who accused him of killing tourism in the United States with a new policy that would require visitors to undergo social media inspections.

Under the new rule, international travelers would have to provide their social media history over the last five years, The Guardian reported.....

"If you want to ban foreign tourism, just say so. Don't demand that tourists prove they've never criticized the Dear Leader like some creepy Maoist cult. Oh, and good luck with the 2026 World Cup, or ever getting the Olympics or another international event here again," Brookings Institute fellow Jessica Riedl wrote on X.

"The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country. Yes, I said TOURISTS — not immigrants. This is insane. It will DECIMATE the U.S. tourism industry," Jon Cooper, majority leader of Suffolk County legislature and former Long Island campaign chair for Barack Obama, wrote on X.

"Yeah this is the death knell for tourism. It doesn’t matter if it passes or not. It scares people. And thats enough. People don't want to be scared on vacation," Gabrielle Ferry, founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation, wrote on X.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

"Wow — even China doesn't do this," Bethany Allen, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's Head of China investigations, wrote on X.

"Buckle up, US airlines, hotels, hospitality companies, places like NY, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Hawaii. Market share will shift to places that welcome tourists," pollster and strategist Bruce Anderson wrote on X.

"Oh the irony! Especially given their rhetoric on 'free speech' vis a vis Europe. Incidentally this is something we often believe China is doing but that's not true at all: I researched it and there's never been a case of a tourist stopped at the Chinese border for what they posted on social media (they don't ask, don't check and don't care). So we're now in a world where the US ironically might have the singlemost restrictive policy on free speech in the world when it comes to this," entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand wrote on X.

"BREAKING: The tourism industry is COLLAPSING because of Trump," Spencer Hakimian, founder of Tolou Capital Management, wrote on X.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This will slash tourism, which pumps more than 250 billion dollars into the US economy every year

Basically, anyone who posts on DU will likely be banned

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

3. +1.

[niyad]

23. JFC. The utter insanity!

[msongs]

4. then again it could just be dumpy talking trash to get all the libs riled up and he isnt gonna do it nt

[popsdenver]

25. too late

Tourism is way off in Florida & Vegas already.......especially for Canadians and Europeans coming over here......

And the ski resorts in Colorado were already hurting, and it will get much worse if we don't get some snow in the mountains.....

(If the snowpack doesn't improve drastically....Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California's water supply is going to be really hurting.)

[tavernier]

33. Exactly.

Already a done deal here in the Keys.

[popsdenver]

56. And the entire Southern Area of Florida

The entire massive rental condo market is basically dead, and a lot of the people who bought them, purely as an investment, to rent for the winters, can't even make their mortgage payments.......

Do you suppose that any of them are blaming the Republicans, or just watching FOX and believing that it is the fault of....

Biden
Hillary
Obama
Bill Clinton
Carter
Governors of Blue States

Desantis has a major roll in all of his state's woes......

[malaise]

5. Why would any sane human being spend their money

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To visit a country where they are not welcome.
Eff that shit.

[Disaffected]

6. B.S.C

Apart from the more obvious issues, how would one actually provide such information and who would check it all (AI??)?

Does DU for instance count as "social media"? Would I have to provide a copy of all my posts to DU?

I'm finding it hard to take this seriously. It is more likely another example of Trump firing another WMD (Weapon of Mass Distraction).

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. BREAKING: The tourism industry is COLLAPSING because of Trump.

This decline was before the new rules

[pazzyanne]

27. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

[travelingthrulife]

38. Color me shocked. Trump really is good at his job of destroying the US for Putin

and his fellow Axis members.

[kysrsoze]

52. All because of this demented fuckstick's fragile ego.

[tanyev]

8. Pssst, Donny! Remember when you asked why aren't we getting immigrants from Norway and Sweden?

THIS.IS.WHY.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This is why people from these countries will not immigrate to the US

[duckworth969]

10. President Miller Strikes Again

[OldBaldy1701E]

36. BINGO! (n/t)

[ChicagoTeamster]

11. MAGA don't like tourists. They don't understand the economies reliance on multiple streams of trade.

They think if the tourists are scared away then Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Vegas, and other big successful cities that they hate will suffer just like they thought the Epstein files would be all about Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, Bill Gates etc. not Trump or Bannon. They don’t even consider what the revenue loss from businesses in parts of the country outside of their Christian Nazi towns will do to local economies and the tax base. All they care about is Trump’s policies are hurting people they don’t like.

[Aristus]

46. Do they really think tourists want to visit places like Squalor Holler, East Hicks-state or West Cornpone, Arkassippi?

Jesus...

[ChicagoTeamster]

47. If they did the idiots would put up flags and signs telling them to stay out.

It’s like the idiots who refused to serve lgbtq. Turning away money. Great business model. And they wonder why their small towns are dying. The younger people wanted out and industry left when they couldn’t get enough reliable employees and the customer base dried up.

[haele]

57. Thing is, these hick towns depend on money from tourists also...

Wilderness tourism is a big thing in a lot of red states.
And the flyover regions depend on a reasonably healthy economy subsidized by both international goodwill and tourist revenue from destination cities and regions to keep their welfare dollars coming in.
Otherwise, it's "how we going to pay our taxes and keep the farm or homestead when Social Security goes bust, the subsidies and easy loans dry up, and all the good paying local Federal or State jobs disappear?"...

Your small town is going to be auctioned off for pennies and your homes foreclosed on and posted against squatters because some international Tech Bro or out of state RNJ hedge fund/Mafia group now owns your "legislatures" and your ass.

Enjoy living in your broke down RV or car and tent parked down by a river or along the side of a rural highway for as long as you can scavenge food and water. Or until the boss-man runs you off his hunting and fishing lodge compound.

[Aristus]

58. It's a shame the hicks didn't think of that when they voted for Donny Dump.

Get out the plywood, boys; it's time to board up more houses and businesses.

[dickthegrouch]

63. But they don't need money from tourists...

When their businesses or farms go belly up they just 'win' more from the government in the form of undeserved and unearned SOCIALISM (ie grants, bailouts, subsidies, welfare, tax refunds, tax exemptions, forgiven bankrupties, etc. etc. etc.)

The red states are so F'ing stupid, they can't equate one with the other, and have no clue that Blue States have been carrying them all along. When the Blue States stop being able to carry them, because our economies are killed too, they will be in MUCH WORSE SHAPE.

Dems need FAR better messaging, to make even a dent in the pathetically ignorant world-view in magaland.

[calimary]

12. Makes me wonder if the donald is really working for Putin.

Soooooooooooooooo many bad decisions oozing out of him like pus from an infected wound.

[ColoringFool]

17. You Aren't STILL Wondering, Are You? Because He's Been....

A traitor, a Constitutional-definition traitor, since curtains 1987.

He wanted/wants Trump Tower Moscow, so arranged for the Miss Universe Pageant (owned then by Trump) to be held in Moscow.

The Steele MI-6 Dossier is real and factual.

Trump's hang-dog posture and grim expression in emergence from a meeting shouted "owned by Putin."

Siding with Russia and urging surrender by Ukraine.

And more.

[calimary]

20. Not really. I've seen enough evidence of it.

Lie after lie. Outrage after outrage. Cheating and MORE cheating.

It’s just damn hard to believe how he can keep getting away with all this shit.

WHEN does it stop???

WHEN is HE stopped???

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Desperate and stupid. Bigly.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

14. Oh how fucking stupid

[lame54]

15. Half your vacation in customs

[Buddyzbuddy]

16. Why would anybody want to come here?

Unless they live in Russia, N. Korea or Saudi Arabia, which might feel like a lateral move. The Felon is trying his best to make this a "sh*thole Country".

Nah, this is my Country and it's worth fighting for. You Maga's are the complainers, you should leave.

[Martin68]

18. Dump is decimating tourism not only through social media, but by imposing regulations requiring tourists to provide five

years of social media documentation before getting a visa. Americans will lose millions in tourism revenue a a result. A madman is in charge, and he will remain in charge until Republicans in congress come to their senses and put a stop to the carnage.

[mdbl]

19. It's getting to the point that the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about the US anymore.

and we deserve it.

[Skittles]

21. JFC

the party of BIG GUBMINT strikes again

[Calico20]

62. yup

.....FREEDUM! lol

[soldierant]

22. Decimate"

means to eliminate one out ov every ten. I'm sure this will do aorse than that.

[IronLionZion]

24. MANK Make America North Korea

Douchebag has been destroying tourism to the USA all year and decided to make it even worse. What is the point?

[Jim__]

26. Uh oh. Next they'll be checking the last 5 years of all of our social media content. Re-education camps ...

... for anyone who criticized the best president in history.

[travelingthrulife]

39. MY MAGA brother says those camps will be used for non-believer religious indoctrination.

[AZ8theist]

49. LOL!! Yeah, good luck with that.

[tblue37]

30. He has already pretty much destroyed tourism. It's way, way down.

[GoodRaisin]

31. I don't know why anybody would still want to visit here where insanity rules.

[artemisia1]

32. Nobody in their right mind would make an optional trip to the US right now. Necessary business, yes, tourism

no. Also, what, for example, Canadian would want to come here when the Federal government is actively hostile to their nation and a full-third of US citizens are outright batshoot crazy?

Sorry, folks, love you to death, but for your own protections -- stay away until we have put our house in order and evicted MAGA and its fellow travelers.

[oasis]

34. Not Welcome to U.S. unless you kiss my ring.

What a dunce

[Betty Boom]

35. They act as if people in other countries are just dying to travel here

If they actually talk to anybody who lives outside the United States, they will understand how laughable that is. They have so many other choices of where to spend their tourist dollars, and nobody wants to spend them here under this obscene regime. Take a look at what a ghost town Vegas is.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. And is about to get worse, much worse.

Link to tweet

[timms139]

45. Can't even get

5 years of tax returns from a convicted felon president .

[WmChris]

40. First they came for tourists and immigrants

My concern is that the gestapo will come for citizens who don't kiss the orange ass.

[patphil]

41. Trump shows his xenophobic side.

If implemented, it's going to cost us over 100 billion dollars a year, and have a negative impact on all 50 states.
Not many foreigners would risk having something on social media that would result in them being "detained", or refused entry.
Considering both direct and indirect workers, it would result in well over a million jobs being lost.
Just like with farmer communities, there are a lot of support businesses that provide goods and services to the tourism industry. They're also going to take a big hit.

Trump is bound and determined to turn the US into a shit hole country.

[SpankMe]

42. The impact on foreign tourism is beside the point

It's the totalitarian brutalism and free speech violation that should be the focus. That any criticism of Trump, MAGA or anything else Dear Leader see's fit disqualifies one from entering the US should be combatted from every quarter. This is just a stepping stone to doing this to US citizens in-country. SCOTUS would find in the Orange Asshole's favor should he do this to US citizens.

[SpankMe]

43. Foreign retaliation

Another thing - this could cause foreign countries to retaliate by doing the same to Americans traveling abroad. This could result in danger to US citizens if they criticize Israel or Chinese leaders, or other leaders where criticism of, say the monarch, is criminalized like in Thailand and Saudi Arabia.

Remember - they literally sawed Jamal Khashoggi apart for criticizing Saudi royalty and society. Who's to say they wouldn't arrest a US citizen upon entry to, say, Thailand upon review of critical social media posts.

[BurnDoubt]

44. SECRET POLICE.

Seriously.
It's now a thing.
Think about that for a minute.

[AZ8theist]

48. And the champagne corks KEEP POPPING in the Kremlin.....

[Nigrum Cattus]

50. all the repugs are cowards, afraid of any reason

they only want to allow other fascist/russian low
life's in - the republican't hate America, period

[Lovie777]

51. Killing the USA economy ......................

therefore, making our lives unbearable.

This is what the GQP has done and still doing.

[Jarqui]

53. U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada:

Fortune Exclusive: U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada: ‘I can count the number of Canadian visitors on one hand’
https://fortune.com/2025/12/10/us-businesses-canada-border-throttled-drop-canadian-tourism/

CBC: U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home
Number of Canadians visiting the U.S. has been in steep decline since Trump took office
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/u-s-canadian-travel-loss-9.6974240

[Old Crank]

54. Just move the World Cup US games to Canada and Mexico.

Should have done that months ago.
If I were in most of the countries qualifying I would say just boycott the games. Blow the whole thing up.

[Old Crank]

55. FIFA needs to move all US games

to Mexico and Canada. Just drop the US.

[RobinA]

59. Although This Is Obviously

a horrible idea, I have a hard time believing this will ever happen. How would it even work? How does one go about "providing" the their last five years of social media? Assuming this is doable, then what. There are thousands of people hired to read people's Facebook, Tiktok, and whatever else? With people who can speak every known language? You'd need a whole new infrastructure to carry it out.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. FIFA may need to take back the fake peace prize given to trump

FIFA thought giving needy man-child Donald Trump his silly "peace prize" would save their World Cup from being hosted by a demented police state.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-12-11T20:58:37.586Z

[Aussie105]

61. America is closing the doors on visitors.

While expelling 'undesirables'.

We visited the US way back in 1988, no red tape that I can remember.
Just an Aussie passport.

Would I visit in 2025? Not a chance.

Places that rely on tourist dollars will end up with tumbleweeds rolling down their streets.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

64. Foreign tourists may have to provide DNA

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T12:24:20.128Z