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Trump Theatens Palestinian Protesters with Deportation and Jail [1]

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Date: 2025-03-04

Donald has given us a hint of what he plans to address in his speech tonight. He will tout his amazing accomplishments of destroying our image around the world by eliminating USAID, voting with Russia at the U.N. against Ukraine, and destroying the economy with tariffs, and deportation ruining the agriculture and construction industries. But there is still one cause near and dear to his heart. He hates protesters.

Only MAGA need apply to protest in Trump's name. Any other protesters should be shot in the leg or worse. While Trump didn't specifically say Palestinian protesters, take illegal protests and students, and you have a reprise of last year.

Trump's favorite weapon is withholding federal funding. It has been working for him all over the place. He's gotten trans out of women's sports in K12 and colleges. He's removed DEI in the same, after affirmative action was removed for him by the Supreme Court.

"All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School or University that allows illegal protests."

The key phrase is "illegal" protests. Suppose protests are for Palestinians and against Israel, but they don't do anything illegal. It only becomes illegal when they occupy land or buildings and refuse to leave when asked to. So, are those all right, Donald? Or are all Pro-Palestinian protests illegal by their very nature?

"Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came."

If you're a U.S. citizen, you can't be deported, you go to jail. A student on a visa gets the full treatment. The definition of "agitator" is critical. Protesters are by their nature agitators. Trump has taken it a step further, without saying it directly, that if you are a protester, then you have committed an illegal act.

"American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested."

First, the double "on on" shows how angry he is. Secondly, aren't nearly all crimes arrestable? Otherwise it's an infraction or misdemeanor. Strangely, he's leaving out non-American protesters.

"NO MASKS!" Are we still talking about Covid? Oh, you must be talking about a niqab or burka. Or is it just people wrapping themselves with Paldstinian flags that cover their mouths? What's the penalty for masks? You just want to make sure everybody is identifiable on security footage that can be used later. You didn't have that problem with the Jan.6th criminals that did truly illegal things to law enforcement and the Capitol.

Then he closes with one of his almost new catchphrases.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter."

The thing is, nobody was paying attention to this matter, until you brought it up. We were more concerned about your intention to throw Ukraine to the wolves.

Is Donald going to bring this up in his speech tonight? He just did another post after this, that said if a company moves to the US, there are no tariffs. Perhaps we should keep looking through the day to Truth Social to see what he's going to talk about tonight.

Trump hates protesters. As president, he can now send the FBI and the DOJ, ICE and CBP after his perceived enemies. The only question is whether he will make enforcement retroactive.

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