The Worst Thing Trump Did on 4/14/25

Without a doubt, the 'dictator off' Trump had with El Salvadoran despot Nayib Bukele. 

The whole point of Bukele's visit was to give Trump cover from the Supreme Court as Bukele insisted he was not going to return the wrongly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Not only did Trump insist he had nothing to do with Garcia being wrongly deported (which he ordered), but administration toads Bondi and Miller went on to repeatedly lie that Garcia was a violent gang member, something he is not.  One person even claimed Garcia was worse than Bin Laden(!?!).  Remember that the administration has already admitted that they wrongly deported Garcia, as he had done nothing wrong.

Then Trump gushed about deporting American citizens he doesn't like to his El Salvadoran gulag to also be tortured and killed. The Administration tried to validate his comments after the fact by ensuring Trump was only referring to the worst criminals; [paraphrasing] 'only the worst would be deported to another country to be tortured and killed without due process.'  No explanation on why American jails and courts were not good enough to punish violent criminals who commit crimes in the United States, or any explanation around the argument that if Trump wanted to use 1798 wartime laws to deport bad people to prisons outside of the US, why military prisons, like Guantanamo, are not suitable for the task? 

Understand something about Republicans. They create these fantastical villains to justify their depraved punishment fantasies. They really want to jail and punish their political enemies, but they know they have to create a validation for their most ardent followers to accept as justification. That's how you go from 'Democrats Trump doesn't like' to 'bloodthirsty vampire people who drink the blood of babies in the basements of pizza parlors!' 

The answer to why Trump is not happy using courts and jails in the US is Trump's evil revenge fantasies; he wants to deport his political enemies to be tortured and killed, like Stalin or Hitler. Now he is trying to convince his followers to let him.  That's how you get "Garcia is worse than Bin Laden.'

And I think it's a pretty safe bet, that Garcia is probably already dead, killed by an El Salvadoran dictator's death squad, per Trump's orders.