📢 No "Art of the Deal" — Only the Art of Lawlessness: Trump's Assault on the Constitution, Our Troops, and the American People
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Donald Trump wrote The Art of the Deal to sell the image of a master negotiator. However, no amount of ghostwritten bravado can cover up the plain truth: Trump has no deal-making abilities. Worse, he's proving now that he has no respect for the law, the courts, or the Constitution he swore to uphold. His refusal to comply with the Supreme Court's order to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia — a Maryland father wrongfully deported to a foreign prison — exposes the dangerous fraud at the heart of his so-called leadership.
When the president refuses to obey the law and no one holds him accountable, we have dictatorship.1 -
The possibility of arbitrary imprisonment by a sovereign, resulting in imprisonment abroad, is one criterion separating democracies from dictatorships.2 -
This is what fascism looks like in real time: calling a wrongfully deported man a terrorist, claiming the power to strip American citizens of their rights, and floating the use of foreign prison camps as a solution to so-called “crime.” If they can do it to him, they can do it to any of us. 3 -
Trump is not a dealmaker. He is a deal-breaker — breaking the fundamental deal that binds us all: the rule of law. In America, no president is above the law. Courts issue rulings and the executive branch is bound to follow them. This is Civics 101. Yet, Trump has chosen to spit on this foundational principle, treating the Supreme Court as a mere inconvenience rather than a co-equal branch of government. Despite the Court's clear and unanimous ruling, Trump has defied orders 4 to return Mr. Abrego Garcia while lying to the American people, claiming it is "impractical" or "impossible" to comply. This is nonsense. Previous administrations have returned wrongfully deported individuals, without issue. The truth is simple: Trump won't do it.
And while he defies our courts, Trump is doing something even more dangerous. He is planning mass arrests, mass deportations, and possibly the deployment of National Guard troops under federal command (Title 10 authority) to terrorize our communities. He is using the language of a dictator, threatening to crush states and cities that resist his unlawful orders and demanding governors fall in line with his authoritarian agenda. He is holding our states hostage, treating our people as enemies of the state for simply demanding our constitutional rights.
Let's be clear: what Trump is doing is not just a policy disagreement — it is a betrayal of every American who has worn the uniform, every family who has sacrificed for this country, and every citizen who believes in the promise of democracy. He is mocking our communities by dragging us into an illegal war against our own people.
Trump's twisted vision doesn't stop at our borders. He's not just deporting asylum seekers — he's plotting to deport U.S. citizens. American citizens. There are active discussions inside his administration about denaturalizing Americans and shipping them to El Salvador's notorious mega-prisons, a move so brazenly unconstitutional it defies belief. He wants to build an Amazon-style mass deportation machine, treating human beings like packages to be sorted and discarded.
This is not hypothetical. Trump has already shown us exactly how far he will go. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported, an "administrative error," they claim — but then they chose not to fix it. Instead, they doubled down. Trump and his thugs like Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller falsely branded Mr. Abrego Garcia as a terrorist despite having no evidence, charges, or convictions. They manufactured fear to justify lawlessness.
If they can do this to Kilmar, they can do it to any of us.
The Constitution is under siege. Trump is not merely ignoring the law; he is actively dismantling the very architecture of our democracy. He is creating a forever war on America itself, turning our laws and troops against our own people while cozying up to foreign strongmen like El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, who parrots Trump's abdication of responsibility and refuses to return our fellow American resident to his family.
But we are not powerless. We, the people, must act. We must show up, speak out, and build power. We must refuse to be governed by fear. We must defend our Constitution from those burning it to ash in pursuit of personal power.
Donald Trump may have written The Art of the Deal, but he has no deal for America. He has only schemes for power, cruelty, and chaos. And he has no place in a country governed by laws, not kings.
Just the facts
The Administration has admitted to wrongfully deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia—tearing him from his family and sending him to a jungle prison in El Salvador. The Supreme Court has issued a clear directive: bring him home immediately.
In the United States, the president is not a king. Our government cannot secretly detain people, skip the courts, and exile them to foreign prisons. That’s exactly what happened to Abrego Garcia—and it violates everything our Constitution stands for.
The rights that protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia from arbitrary detention and deportation are the same rights that protect every single American. If the government can ignore the courts for him, they can ignore the courts for any of us.
Due process is not a suggestion—it’s a constitutional guarantee. The fact that this Administration acknowledges it deported an innocent man without proper judicial review should alarm us all.
The Trump administration recently intervened to secure the return of right-wing influencer Andrew Tate and his brother from Romania, despite the fact that they were facing charges of human trafficking, money laundering, and rape.5
This case reveals what happens when legal checks and balances are ignored. An innocent man was sent to a jungle prison. The path to justice starts now: the Administration must comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling and bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home—immediately.
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https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/breaking-supreme-court-unanimously-rules-against-trump-orders-return-of-mistakenly-deported-man-237089349832
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