If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.
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Thanks, but man, I have the feeling the public in USA are not quite understanding how the rest of the West is seeing all of this.
Few friends will ask you that question. We stopped asking a while ago. Writing this as I help a friend cancel the conference she was organizing in California.
Some people we know just returned from a trip to Bhutan, Nepal, several areas in India, came home through Qatar. They were "Canadians". It's not safe to say you're Americans when you're overseas any longer.
When Trump won the election in November I cancelled an in-person conference presentation in the USA (organised for March). I’d be surprised if other U.K. academics haven’t had the prescience to do the same, it’s not like we didn’t know it would be like this…. The writing was on the wall.
I'm going to UK in May. No worries getting in there,but starting to worry about being allowed back because I don't support Trump. My roots go back to pre Revolutionary War on one side.
I was born here, and I would not try to travel anywhere right now, unless I wasn't planning to come back. (Honestly, that's the only way I'd risk getting on a plane right now too!)
What bout requirement to have passport/residency card for air travel, could trump use this as a precursor to using as official id for federal services including voting
"Give me your dynamic, your wealthy,
Your educated masses yearning to breathe free,
The blessed refuse of your bigot shore.
Send these, the withy, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp back to the golden door!"
Written on Eiffel Tower, The Tower Bridge, Brandburg Arch, Canadian parliement front etc...
Tourists spend money here, add to our economy generally and to the local economy where they visit. Imagine Disney World without tourists or Broadway. And where are the majority of Tourists from? Yup, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. And tourists typically do not exceed their intended stay. WTF.
Canadians are pretty stinkin' pale (and as an Irish-skinned lass with underbelly of the whale whiteness, I feel I can speak for our Northern neighbors)... don't. Stay home. We're no longer reliable to do the right thing. Boycott us.
Come on up to #Canada we'd really love to see you.
P.S. your dollar up here is worth about $1.44! That a 44% increase in buying power 💰 Sweet! https://youtu.be/wlisSjsxXcQ?feature=shared
One of my "bucket list" items is to visit the Smithsonian and various space-related facilities in the US "sometime in the next few years", but it can wait, indefinitely if needed.
On Feb. 18th, I told my wonderful friends in Iceland not to come for our planned scenic tour of the southwest. Header "We are in the middle of a coup and systems are likely going to collapse, I thought I should warn you--"
A friend of mine in Spain saw on her local news that "several German folks were taken away into detention for weeks, one detained only because they had messages like the ones I'm now writing to you."
A truly shameful time for America.
I'm American, but my husband is British. We won't be visiting my family and friends anytime soon unless we can meet up in Canada (family lives in NE US, so Montreal is a possibility).
Best advice is fact check what you're listening to and watching. Many people in this country listen to propaganda spread and paid for by Russia. Stay united Canada.
Foreign nations should start treating us like North Korea and issue travel warnings strongly advising their citizens against visiting the United States because they are subject to arbitrary arrest and detention in inhumane conditions.
Good! I wouldn’t travel to the U.S. either. Heck, even as a U.S. resident/citizen, I don’t travel to most of the states in the U.S. I’m not spending my money in places that consistently votes to harm others.
We are 🇨🇦 - my 🏳️⚧️ son is studying in Denmark this summer. His flight is from Vancouver, layover in Seattle, then on to Copenhagen. I have literally never been more terrified in my life. DH may fly with him to Seattle to make sure he gets on the plane ok. It’s madness.
@shauna250.bsky.social It’s bonkers we havw to be this leery of our neighbourimg country.. it’s eye opening how countries like Ukraine next to russia feel
North Korea: “We are going jail and kill tourists for anything we think they did wrong.”
USA: Hold my beer!! We will stop legal residents and tourists in airports, strip search them and their phones, make up a bogus criminal intent, jail them, deport them or vanish them into El Salvador jail system.
It will continue until Trump rounds up all dissidents (anyone speaking out against Trump) and detains and rapidly deports them to a third world country that he pays millions of dollars for use of their prisons.
BLOG: Foreigners & minorities in the US should leave IMMEDIATELY. The purges have begun, you will be next.
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I'm American, my husband British. My British F-i-L couldn't fathom why we chose to live in the UK when we got married (2012). My response was while the US economy was better, I didnt consider it stable for a family.
Good luck to them in the UK; I've no regrets about our choice.
Canadians still willing (or needing) to travel to the US are being asked to provide social media passwords at the border crossings. Any posts derogatory of trump or his lap dogs and you might be detained.
Who would have imagined that visitors from the UK and Canada would be thrown into ICE detention facilities? This is just fucking crazy! When do we start working on impeachment? I know it wont get through right now, but could lay the groundwork for 2026. Unless some in the GOP develop a conscience!
Indeed! Knowing the state of the FAA & a backpacker from Wales, UK was detained by ICE for weeks, & her parents weren’t given any information. Gawd help the ⚽️ World Cup🏆 fans🚓
🚫🇺🇸 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
For 99.9% of tourists coming to the US, there would zero issues. While horrific and wrong, the media amplifies the .01% of cases where the Trump admin blows something up, making it seem like this is more common than it is and that the US is not safe to visit.
He’s decreed that a substantial number of people - tourists included - will be detained regardless of validity. It’s a sucker’s bet to hope not to be part of that group, especially if others are staying away leaving fewer targets to meet the quotas.
If 1 jelly bean in your bag of 1000 was lethal would you eat the bag? I just changed flights for next week to avoid a US stop over. I wouldn't take the chance.
I have a trip back home to Australia this year. As a Naturalized Citizen, I am concerned about reentering the US. I am even concerned for my family, who holds dual citizenships. Its a sad day when law abiding citizens are afraid of their own country.
I can never say this enough: don't come here. Let us, as much as it hurts me, crash and burn. It's the only way these MAGA asshats are going to realize the consequences they made.
At this point, I'd wait a century before tourists come here again.
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All this With major international sporting events coming up over the next few years. Will be real curious how those go and if Putin ends up at one (2028 Olympics)
I think I would word it rather harshly. Do not come here under any circumstances. No. Hell no. Stay home, travel elsewhere. Not here. Not now. Not anytime soon.
No matter your nationality, if you don't have a US Passport, I wouldn't even attempt to come to the US right now. It is so CRAZY here right now that you can't trust any rules of law will be followed. For non-citizens in the US under proper docs, I'd stay put and not make trips to your home country.
How many countries have posted Travel Advisories now, UK, Germany, Canada? I told my friends in Brazil to stay away.
Think of this, not only is he going to push us into recession but also kill tourism which is a really big deal.
I have a friend with a green card currently out of the country and I'm terrified for when they return. Fortunately they keep their social media fairly neutral to politics.
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I wasn’t clear…I’m not really worried about how people in Spain and France will tread me. I’m just a bit concerned about what happens coming back when free speech rights are being trampled
I’m going to Europe soon and bringing my hoodie that says “CANADA” across the front. I know I won’t be fooling anyone, but I don’t have one that says “DON’T HURT ME, I VOTED FOR KAMALA.”
I wasn’t clear. I’m more worried that the step beyond what is happening to people who visit here, is to harass American citizens who are not trumpers when they return to this country
That’s not the point here. Nobody in Europe is going to detain you at the airport or God knows what else. This is about people’s real concerns about coming to the US, not about your hypothetical worries that someone’s going to be rude to you when you go on vacation.
1/2. A traveler-self imposed travel ban. That is the Admin’s goal. They get their “ban” without having to implement the policy and deal with the backlash they saw in 2017.
Not sure they understand (or maybe just don’t care) about the loss of the revenue that foreign visitors bring with them.
This was inevitable. Border crossings are at their lowest levels in years. Trump has fired more government employees than people he has deported. In order to hit the numbers he promised to his knuckle dragging base of morons he’s going to have to go after legal immigrants.
I've been lucky enough to travel to the USA many times on business. I'm very sad to say that I wouldn't come there again under the current administration. I do hope you find a way to get your country back. At your best, you are a tremendous force for good in the world.
Every nation needs to issue a travel advisory for US bound travelers. They will throw you in jail for weeks, not allowing you to contact your embassy or family. They may even ship you to an El Salvadoran slave labor prison.
A friend of mine was working in his visa to move to America and marry his partner. It was already dicey leading up to this but the last week has made him cancel his plans completely and the two of them are trying to figure out what to do next. Fuck Trump and fuck his supporters.
I told my friends who moved to Brazil not to ever come back. If I did not live in this country, I would not come here unless my life depended on it. Even as a citizen, I will worry about leaving and being denied re-entry because I think Trump is a cancerous piece of shit
Same. I'm asking friends and colleagues who are canceling to help us out a bit by taking a few minutes to let their airline, hotels, and any planned destinations know why they aren't coming.
The weirdest thing was the immigration officer saying “why wouldn’t you smuggle things into the US?” And the Finnish guy said “It’s wrong” and the officer kept needing more explanations
And the Finnish newspaper just reported Finns with US passports and green cards getting grilled about their status, called liars, accused of smuggling, crazy shit
I have legal immigrant acquaintances who happen to come from countries which have been through this before, such as Egypt, and they STILL voted for Trump, because the authoritarian patriarchy is THE most important thing. How do you sympathize when they literally voted for that to happen to others?
There's a young English girl being held at a detention centre for trying to cross from Canada into the US and she has a visa!
I wouldn't advise anyone to travel to the US
We are going to lose billions in tourism dollars, putting many Americans out of work. All because of a racist shit-for-brains who is being allowed to act like a dictator.
Pretty sure that that’s the point.
ISOLATIONISM in every form. Systemic atrocities aren’t the global headlines they’re intending to boost exactly. The tighter the lid, the more that get did.
My son's fiancee would like to get married in the USA & meet our son's family & friends. Sadly due to Trump's policies, the wedding will be in Europe. Hopefully, in four years, the entire family can be together.
I've been to the US once in 2019, NYC, New Orleans and Miami, I loved it. I'm retiring next year and was thinking of having an extended trip to coincide with the World Cup,not a fucking chance now, might go to Mexico instead
A friend of mine from France has to come here for business soon and was thinking of staying a few days extra for a little vacation, and bringing his fiancée. I flat out told him that although I would love to see them, best advice I can give is for him to come just for his work things and then leave
Tell your expat friends to check and update their documents now too. It’s going to get harder for Americans abroad to update their visas, passports, and other documentation.
My daughter (British national) is due to take an internship at the UN in NYC in July before heading to Kazakhstan to study. I never dreamed that I’d be advising her not to travel to the US.
I’d say don’t come to the US and if you must, definitely don’t go to Colorado Springs. That’s where the group that was targeting me is stationed. Very dangerous white supremacists.
All I know is that it was a group of MAGA loving white supremacists stationed in Colorado Springs. I’d say they were in their 20’s. They are all gay. They did a range of things to me including (but not limited to) hacking my computer.
If I told you everything they’d done, you wouldn’t believe me.
Well, I was targeted from 2010 to Feb 2025. When it started, it was a different group. They were attracted to women. These stalkers never would have left me alone voluntarily.
Fast forward to this group from Colorado Springs. The gay group was a group of predators who weren’t that interested in me
For this group, the cruelty was the point. But they just didn’t find me all that interesting as a victim. I think they’d prefer to stalk/target an attractive man.
That on top of the fact they say some people from the earlier group were arrested. So they actually voluntarily stopped targeting me
He has suggested travel bans.
He is continuing to chip away at our economy and reduce world confidence.
His methods are going to have a devastating effect on the US economy and the US dollar.
He is isolating the United States from the rest of the world.
With the exception of Russia.
How the fuck can we possibly think we are going to "co-host" the 2026 World Cup with Canada and Mexico at this point? Who in their right mind will send their teams here under these conditions?
Anyone coming here risks being nabbed by ICE and shipped off to a foreign prison camp and possibly never heard from again. It's the most inhumane thing I have ever heard of and this is AMERICA!! GOP has killed Tourism.
Did you hear anything about another travel ban about to be issued? I heard it's coming, again but likely more expansive this time around. Anyone? Is this the Friday night surprise?
ICE was given a quota from Trump of something like 2000 new prisoners a week, so they WANT people coming into the country so they have an excuse to arrest them.
If I was a citizen of another country no way would I vacation in USA.
1: not smart for safety.
2: if you care about what’s happening in USA protest tourist dollars by not coming here. That will be felt.
The Danish government has made a warning for transgender people, to be careful if they are planning to visit the states. And I know of many people who have changed their plans about going to US.
It's not just that they run the risk of being deported for Visa "problems" they didn't know about, they run the risk of being detained, chained, body searched, locked up w/no legal representation & sent to private for profit immigration detention centers in remote states for days/weeks/months
If I could afford it I would bolt the hell out of here. Under this fascist regime they only want pay for green card applicants from majority white countries, merit is based on money or skin color.
You know how there is a world wide outcry when a country with human rights violations hosts one of these events? I never would have thought that would be us, but here we are.
They're winning, that's all they "see" (are told to see). They could literally be drowning while drumpf watches safely from shore, and they'd say "he saved me" as they swallow a mouthful of water 🙄
Going after tourists really hurts the economy as well. If there was ever any doubt as to why all of Trump's companies eventually fail. That doubt should clearly be removed after witnessing the ignorance and stupidity of how he functions.
How exactly is he finding criticism of himself on the internet, is he using emails to search out social platforms to find people criticizing him? How does he do it?
I am a European and I can confirm that nor my family nor friends will visit your wonderful country until law, order and due process are reestablished. We won't jeopardize our freedom.
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“He’s been held for deportation”.
It's really not great for the economy if people are afraid to travel to the US from abroad. Oh, and guess what - this US citizen is ashamed to go abroad full stop.
We just had this conversation earlier today in my online bookclub meeting. One member is a US citizen living in Germany with a German partner. It’s sad and disappointing that this is where we are right now. I didn’t see this coming. The US used to be the safe port in any storm. Now we are the storm.
Not enough people know he is doing this, now. They don't pay attention, and this in my mind, is a really egregious thing. It's just repulsive, and the US needs to wake up and pay attention to what is happening even on this level, now.
They are searching devices for private conversations criticizing Trump’s administration. This beyond not having free speech, it’s control over your thoughts and opinions.
What’s next? using AI on listening devices like Alexa to monitor your conversations? Like the Stasi police on steroids.
The NSA has been monitoring all conversations for a while. They’ll most likely add any negative opinions of the orange fascist to their flagged keywords list. But so what? Let them. They can’t get everyone.
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Few friends will ask you that question. We stopped asking a while ago. Writing this as I help a friend cancel the conference she was organizing in California.
Most people say what they think online nowadays.
Not having a smartphone or other device would in itself be suspicious.
We got eggs.
Make a complex password and don’t have fingerprint and facial recognition. If they ask for access to your device you can say no. They can seize it.
Saying no while on a visa ( possibly green card?) can be used to deny you entry!
This is f Orwellian.
But oh, gods! I wish I could leave.
Your educated masses yearning to breathe free,
The blessed refuse of your bigot shore.
Send these, the withy, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp back to the golden door!"
Written on Eiffel Tower, The Tower Bridge, Brandburg Arch, Canadian parliement front etc...
This is supremely embarrassing for our nation. The whole world is watching.
P.S. your dollar up here is worth about $1.44! That a 44% increase in buying power 💰 Sweet!
https://youtu.be/wlisSjsxXcQ?feature=shared
God Save America.
Even Americans aren’t safe.
A truly shameful time for America.
(In a "for your loss" way. I'm in Canada watching this with increasing dread and also not coming to visit.)
https://youtu.be/3lj-Qf-ghIo?feature=shared
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5336792/european-countries-canada-travel-warnings-us
Spend it going to countries that deserve it and are incredible tourist spots like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, or Finland.
Bernie sanders AOC and all obey the democratic party line. ALL OF THEM ARE COLABORATORS. Party of the bourgeoisie democracy. Dictatorship of the rich.
USA: Hold my beer!! We will stop legal residents and tourists in airports, strip search them and their phones, make up a bogus criminal intent, jail them, deport them or vanish them into El Salvador jail system.
You'd think at least one of the GOP Cult Congress would step up to the pump and say NO MORE - and FIGHT for US instead of ONE ignorant man!
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Good luck to them in the UK; I've no regrets about our choice.
① leaving your country to spend your money in America &
② ending up in maximum security for profit prison in El Salvador.
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At this point, I'd wait a century before tourists come here again.
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Think of this, not only is he going to push us into recession but also kill tourism which is a really big deal.
The US is not a place to travel to. It’s now a place to defend yourself from
Conservatives claim to support the free market but reject the society it creates.
Economist Deirdre McCloskey argues capital is ideas, not money—if true, they're undermining capitalism.
There are many wonderful places to travel in the world. I only hope we are not banned from entering other countries soon.
Not sure they understand (or maybe just don’t care) about the loss of the revenue that foreign visitors bring with them.
Real nazi shit.
That’s my current advise.
It might be like the Von Trapps.
I wouldn't advise anyone to travel to the US
ISOLATIONISM in every form. Systemic atrocities aren’t the global headlines they’re intending to boost exactly. The tighter the lid, the more that get did.
Then again... contact and togetherness brings understanding. Remember The Potter university in this times. Division might be what our enemies want.
Probably safer for them to visit the UK or India now, but then they might not be allowed to go back!
If I told you everything they’d done, you wouldn’t believe me.
Fast forward to this group from Colorado Springs. The gay group was a group of predators who weren’t that interested in me
That on top of the fact they say some people from the earlier group were arrested. So they actually voluntarily stopped targeting me
He is continuing to chip away at our economy and reduce world confidence.
His methods are going to have a devastating effect on the US economy and the US dollar.
He is isolating the United States from the rest of the world.
With the exception of Russia.
1: not smart for safety.
2: if you care about what’s happening in USA protest tourist dollars by not coming here. That will be felt.
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Pepé Le Pew, has been detained
by ICE agents. When asked for comments, he yelled.
“America You are ze corned beef to me, and I am ze cabbage to you”. His love interest Penelope Pussycat, (the cat lady he’s always chasing) told reporters
“He’s been held for deportation”.
(Pisst… the cat lady).
Measles outbreaks.
ICE shenanigans.
More guns than people.
Stay away until we get our house in order.
What’s next? using AI on listening devices like Alexa to monitor your conversations? Like the Stasi police on steroids.