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Tue Apr 15, 2025, 03:48 PM Apr 15

Trump's Gulag-Industrial Complex Spoiler Alert: You're Next

Rick Wilson

Trump's Gulag-Industrial Complex Spoiler Alert: You’re Next "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough." Those were the words today of Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States, to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele during an Oval Office visit yesterday from “The world’s coolest dictator.”

“The home-growns.” Let’s be clear about what Trump is saying: he wants to send American citizens to a gulag in El Salvador, a prison from which there is no escape, no hope of release, and no due process. Trump will sell this insanely unconstitutional idea as targeting American criminals, but it won't stop there. It’s not just going to be the “worst of the worst.” He’s also talking about sending anti-Tesla protestors to El Salvador’s Tropical Abu Ghraib. “I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!” Trump's Oval Office “build 5 more” prisons like CECOT to El Salvador’s dictator Nayib Bukele was a slip of the tongue that reveals his true intentions: to target not just the "worst of the worst" but also protesters, dissidents, and anyone who dares to challenge his regime.

The Oval Office has, rather unsurprisingly, become a breeding ground for the most heinous, unconstitutional, and inhumane ideas with Donald Trump at the helm. The latest scheme to emerge from this cesspool of corruption involves shipping American citizens off to El Salvador's notorious prisons, devoid of due process, hope of release, or basic human rights. In short, we’re next.

The very notion of sending American citizens to a foreign gulag is an affront to the Constitution, a document that Trump has repeatedly shown disdain for. His Administration is pushing the Overton Window to the right with a bulldozer, crushing any semblance of democracy, transparency, or accountability. The complicity of Republican lawmakers, who cower in fear of Trump's revenge, is a stark reminder of their spinelessness. So much for the “pocket Constitution” boys of the 2010, 2012, and 2016 Senate classes. None of them dares to call this illegality what it is. Not one will blink when DHS starts Stephen Miller’s “mass denaturalization program.”

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