Yeah, masked thugs attacking citizens and legal immigrants and violating civil rights is probably not a good look.
LuvKrahft on
His “message” is a lie.
AssociateGreat2350 on
that ship sailed a while ago.
anyone not seeing it for what it is (authoritarianism) is just lying to themselves
ElysiumSprouts on
Setting the stage for shooting citizens and kidnapping 5 year olds, and the thousand other examples of oppression…
The “immigration message” is loud and clear.
AriaAriaAr on
Trump’s frustration here reflects a very real problem any administration faces when policy enforcement turns into optics disasters. The Minneapolis situation — chaotic protests, deadly use of force by ICE, and viral videos — isn’t just a press problem, it affects public perception of immigration policy as a whole. If your narrative is “law and order,” but all anyone sees on their feed is violence and unrest, you lose control of the message. Effective strategy would look less like damage control and more like thoughtful engagement with the concerns of local communities while still enforcing the law.
Machiavvelli3060 on
Keep the pressure turned up, people.
Power to the people!!
HenryValMorgenstern on
What message is that Don? Could it be ‘Do what I say, when I say, or be labeled a domestic terrorist threat by my militia ‘?
Could that be your message Don?
Fuck you, Trump.
diet_sean on
Keep that cortisol flowing, baby!
RandomErrer on
Not everybody wants a Fourth Reich
MrAutumnMan on
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Got it.
CAM6913 on
The message is Cristal clear they are racist and want to punish everyone that doesn’t kiss his as while praising him as their mango messiah
OnlyMamaKnows on
>Trump has sought to take control of the narrative, starting with an impromptu press conference on the anniversary of his first year in office.
>The president, at times sounding exasperated, thumbed through mugshots of individuals arrested in his immigration crackdown, highlighting their alleged crimes. His message was clear that while there might be some issues, ICE is necessary to follow through on his agenda — to deport the most dangerous criminals back to their home country.
Just incredible sanewashing here. That press conference was unhinged. Trump confusedly flipping through those photos with long awkward silences only showed how decayed he is. His message was anything but clear.
FantasticJacket7 on
The US is generally anti immigration and it would be so easy for the right to win this.
Refocus on actual criminals instead of just as many people as possible and the approval polling would skyrocket.
But that goes against Steven Millers genocide plans.
tonniecat on
Oh, the entire world has gotten his message by now.
Northern_Ice_2501 on
Here’s an idea. Move your ICE goons to Texas. Heard there’s a big immigrant population there.
CevicheMixto on
How dare people see us for what we are!
AmazingRefrigerator4 on
All he had to do was recruit more agents and pretty much keep the rest of the stuff the same as the Obama years. Give the arrested proper due process. Tell agents not to wear masks. Hold ICE and Border Patrol responsible when they violate people rights. Don’t deport people to random countries or prisons.
A lot of people wouldn’t like the ramp up, but at least peoples rights wouldn’t be violated and there would be some accountability. It was Trump’s administration to lost the narrative when they decided to go full racist and ignore people human rights. It wasn’t even necessary for them to accomplish their goal.
Active_Bar9595 on
Quit shooting people..problem solved
metamucil_buttchug69 on
Trump just guaranteed a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and migrants. He demonstrated that mass deportations in the interior of the country would devolve into chaos. He created a situation where your average person has to choose between masked men abducting people in vans, or a path to citizenship. Even if the average voter supported immigration enforcement before, they likely don’t now.
There was no way mass deportations would ever go smoothly, it was always a PR nightmare and now he lost the momentum the republicans had on immigration.
HellaTroi on
He lost control the minute he gave Stephen Miller authority over Immigration.
newtoallofthis2 on
He’s going to throw miller under a bus and/or Noem.
Win/Win
hymen_destroyer on
Credit to Minnesotans for keeping it peaceful enough that he can’t use the manufactured excuse of insurrection no matter how hard he tries. The optics coming out of the protests just don’t look good at all for Trump. Children being detained, clergy being rounded up, people getting pepper sprayed at point blank range or shot in the head by gestapo…hard to call it an insurrection with those kinds of images
YesterShill on
The only message that ICE is sending is that Trump is a fascist, and ICE is his secret police.
PapaGilbatron on
Don’t know what the Republicans expect when their ICE policies include unlawful entry and even shoot to kill.
tHEyleftRight on
“‘Do we want these arrests to be so chaotic? No, we don’t,’ Vance said”. The “arrests” are chaotic because they are happening without any due process, and observers are being denied their first amendment rights, it isn’t bold to say that if this administration heeded the constitution in *any* way, which they **swore an oath to uphold**, this chaos would not exist.
Zebraitis on
He made a mistake doing this in Minnesota.
He should have made his big stand in some Red State that would put up with that shit.
Good job all you Minnesotans! Prove to America that our Constitution and Bill of Rights matter!
crazy_cat_lady_CA_NV on
Literally could have just funded more immigration judges. No – he wants violence and spectacle. That’s what he got.
EV-187 on
Privately?
Bruh, we’re not allowed to ignore Mandatory Grandpa’s racist rantings.
New_Alternative8711 on
Translation: Trump worried that his lies about immigration to justify his racist policies are no longer working
LucidOndine on
He will take his gestapo, leave the city, claim victory, then harass another city and state to provoke them to violence.
actuallyapossom on
>The president, at times sounding exasperated, thumbed through mugshots of individuals arrested in his immigration crackdown, highlighting their alleged crimes. His message was clear that while there might be some issues, ICE is necessary to follow through on his agenda — to deport the most dangerous criminals back to their home country.
>”He wanted to do that briefing in large part because he himself wanted to bring out the mugshots that we had printed for him,” a senior White House official told CNN. “He wanted to remind the world of why ICE is doing what they’re doing.”
They’re talking about him like he’s in senior care, what the fuck America.
LingonberryHot8521 on
He also privately expressed that he knew he lost in 2020.
So what?
He’s still going to double down and be even more of a tyrant.
GentleBelligerent on
He still hasn’t figured out that
1. Mass deportations are actually pretty horrible in practice, something that Americans are waking up to right now.
2. That letting his idiotic henchmen (Miller, noem, Homan, etc.) double down and run their mouths on national television, while also encouraging their goons to be even more violent, is sinking his numbers deeper under water.
PatSajaksDick on
If only there was a guy who could do something about it
mistertickertape on
If only there were some unhinged people he could fire and replace with better tactics that didn’t involve brute force, racism, and cruelty) and maybe, I dunno, not straight up kidnapping people. Nehhh that would be way too easy.
ProudPainting6850 on
How about this? Pull ICE out and tell miller to shut the fuck up?
Several_Reflection94 on
I would claw through 6 brick walls with my bare hands to get to the polls in November. Does that sound motivated enough for you? Pretty sure I am not alone.
funtimes-forall on
I don’t think so. I think immigration is secondary and the main reason he’s there is to punish and control Democratic cities. This is what he wants and it’s just the beginning.
NoIncrease299 on
Gosh, whodathunk having masked, armed thugs murder innocent Americans in the street would be a bad look?
Hieroglo on
His impulse is erratic but it is always an attempt to exert his control he won’t be able to resist meddling more.
Pipe_Memes on
Maybe stop causing chaos in Minnesota with your little goon squad then?
ReactionJifs on
Affordability X Epstein Files
Name a more iconic presidential crisis
EbbOwn303 on
Fuck CNN for trying to sanewash this bastard. They are going to cause the extinction of all life on earth for “profits”.
AntonCigar on
I agree with him, there are violent thugs that need to be removed from Minneapolis. Just we disagree on who they are.
Plato_Magick on
He really thought that he could send an invading force to Minneapolis and the people would just roll over and accept it. Minnesota is not fucking around anymore. 50000 people showed up today in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE on what has been the coldest day in MN this decade.
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WTF does he think his message is????
Yeah, masked thugs attacking citizens and legal immigrants and violating civil rights is probably not a good look.
His “message” is a lie.
that ship sailed a while ago.
anyone not seeing it for what it is (authoritarianism) is just lying to themselves
Setting the stage for shooting citizens and kidnapping 5 year olds, and the thousand other examples of oppression…
The “immigration message” is loud and clear.
Trump’s frustration here reflects a very real problem any administration faces when policy enforcement turns into optics disasters. The Minneapolis situation — chaotic protests, deadly use of force by ICE, and viral videos — isn’t just a press problem, it affects public perception of immigration policy as a whole. If your narrative is “law and order,” but all anyone sees on their feed is violence and unrest, you lose control of the message. Effective strategy would look less like damage control and more like thoughtful engagement with the concerns of local communities while still enforcing the law.
Keep the pressure turned up, people.
Power to the people!!
What message is that Don? Could it be ‘Do what I say, when I say, or be labeled a domestic terrorist threat by my militia ‘?
Could that be your message Don?
Fuck you, Trump.
Keep that cortisol flowing, baby!
Not everybody wants a Fourth Reich
“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Got it.
The message is Cristal clear they are racist and want to punish everyone that doesn’t kiss his as while praising him as their mango messiah
>Trump has sought to take control of the narrative, starting with an impromptu press conference on the anniversary of his first year in office.
>The president, at times sounding exasperated, thumbed through mugshots of individuals arrested in his immigration crackdown, highlighting their alleged crimes. His message was clear that while there might be some issues, ICE is necessary to follow through on his agenda — to deport the most dangerous criminals back to their home country.
Just incredible sanewashing here. That press conference was unhinged. Trump confusedly flipping through those photos with long awkward silences only showed how decayed he is. His message was anything but clear.
The US is generally anti immigration and it would be so easy for the right to win this.
Refocus on actual criminals instead of just as many people as possible and the approval polling would skyrocket.
But that goes against Steven Millers genocide plans.
Oh, the entire world has gotten his message by now.
Here’s an idea. Move your ICE goons to Texas. Heard there’s a big immigrant population there.
How dare people see us for what we are!
All he had to do was recruit more agents and pretty much keep the rest of the stuff the same as the Obama years. Give the arrested proper due process. Tell agents not to wear masks. Hold ICE and Border Patrol responsible when they violate people rights. Don’t deport people to random countries or prisons.
A lot of people wouldn’t like the ramp up, but at least peoples rights wouldn’t be violated and there would be some accountability. It was Trump’s administration to lost the narrative when they decided to go full racist and ignore people human rights. It wasn’t even necessary for them to accomplish their goal.
Quit shooting people..problem solved
Trump just guaranteed a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and migrants. He demonstrated that mass deportations in the interior of the country would devolve into chaos. He created a situation where your average person has to choose between masked men abducting people in vans, or a path to citizenship. Even if the average voter supported immigration enforcement before, they likely don’t now.
There was no way mass deportations would ever go smoothly, it was always a PR nightmare and now he lost the momentum the republicans had on immigration.
He lost control the minute he gave Stephen Miller authority over Immigration.
He’s going to throw miller under a bus and/or Noem.
Win/Win
Credit to Minnesotans for keeping it peaceful enough that he can’t use the manufactured excuse of insurrection no matter how hard he tries. The optics coming out of the protests just don’t look good at all for Trump. Children being detained, clergy being rounded up, people getting pepper sprayed at point blank range or shot in the head by gestapo…hard to call it an insurrection with those kinds of images
The only message that ICE is sending is that Trump is a fascist, and ICE is his secret police.
Don’t know what the Republicans expect when their ICE policies include unlawful entry and even shoot to kill.
“‘Do we want these arrests to be so chaotic? No, we don’t,’ Vance said”. The “arrests” are chaotic because they are happening without any due process, and observers are being denied their first amendment rights, it isn’t bold to say that if this administration heeded the constitution in *any* way, which they **swore an oath to uphold**, this chaos would not exist.
He made a mistake doing this in Minnesota.
He should have made his big stand in some Red State that would put up with that shit.
Good job all you Minnesotans! Prove to America that our Constitution and Bill of Rights matter!
Literally could have just funded more immigration judges. No – he wants violence and spectacle. That’s what he got.
Privately?
Bruh, we’re not allowed to ignore Mandatory Grandpa’s racist rantings.
Translation: Trump worried that his lies about immigration to justify his racist policies are no longer working
He will take his gestapo, leave the city, claim victory, then harass another city and state to provoke them to violence.
>The president, at times sounding exasperated, thumbed through mugshots of individuals arrested in his immigration crackdown, highlighting their alleged crimes. His message was clear that while there might be some issues, ICE is necessary to follow through on his agenda — to deport the most dangerous criminals back to their home country.
>”He wanted to do that briefing in large part because he himself wanted to bring out the mugshots that we had printed for him,” a senior White House official told CNN. “He wanted to remind the world of why ICE is doing what they’re doing.”
They’re talking about him like he’s in senior care, what the fuck America.
He also privately expressed that he knew he lost in 2020.
So what?
He’s still going to double down and be even more of a tyrant.
He still hasn’t figured out that
1. Mass deportations are actually pretty horrible in practice, something that Americans are waking up to right now.
2. That letting his idiotic henchmen (Miller, noem, Homan, etc.) double down and run their mouths on national television, while also encouraging their goons to be even more violent, is sinking his numbers deeper under water.
If only there was a guy who could do something about it
If only there were some unhinged people he could fire and replace with better tactics that didn’t involve brute force, racism, and cruelty) and maybe, I dunno, not straight up kidnapping people. Nehhh that would be way too easy.
How about this? Pull ICE out and tell miller to shut the fuck up?
I would claw through 6 brick walls with my bare hands to get to the polls in November. Does that sound motivated enough for you? Pretty sure I am not alone.
I don’t think so. I think immigration is secondary and the main reason he’s there is to punish and control Democratic cities. This is what he wants and it’s just the beginning.
Gosh, whodathunk having masked, armed thugs murder innocent Americans in the street would be a bad look?
His impulse is erratic but it is always an attempt to exert his control he won’t be able to resist meddling more.
Maybe stop causing chaos in Minnesota with your little goon squad then?
Affordability X Epstein Files
Name a more iconic presidential crisis
Fuck CNN for trying to sanewash this bastard. They are going to cause the extinction of all life on earth for “profits”.
I agree with him, there are violent thugs that need to be removed from Minneapolis. Just we disagree on who they are.
He really thought that he could send an invading force to Minneapolis and the people would just roll over and accept it. Minnesota is not fucking around anymore. 50000 people showed up today in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE on what has been the coldest day in MN this decade.