In less than 3 months, Donald Trump spent almost $40 million to detain around 400 illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay. This comes out to a cost of nearly $100,000 per person. What a total waste of money. - ThreadSky

artcandee.bsky.social • 4 days ago

In less than 3 months, Donald Trump spent almost $40 million to detain around 400 illegal immigrants at Guantanamo Bay.

This comes out to a cost of nearly $100,000 per person.

What a total waste of money.

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retire411.bsky.social•3 days ago

Would love to send Dumpy and Elon there for a month

justjim12.bsky.social•3 days ago

How much of that $40M ended up in the orange felon's pocket?

markro2015.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m sure Musk and the bots are on it!

flutterbywhim.bsky.social•4 days ago

Isn't that why DOGE was established to eliminate wasteful spending of the federal Government 🤔? Oh, I forgot 🤦‍♀️! It is never wasteful spending if the GOP is doing it. After all going after programs that helps people is a GOP fad, but they never touch DoD spending which is 60% of the entire budget 🤷‍♀️.

louishenwood.bsky.social•3 days ago

Britain did a similar high-cost scheme called the Rwanda plan

Spent £500 million and managed to get one person to volunteer to go to Rwanda

randall1972.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not efficient.

justharris.bsky.social•4 days ago

They will figure out that ovens are more “efficient”.
Just like their predecessor.

mfostwald.bsky.social•3 days ago

What an illegal waste of money.

mikegottschalk.bsky.social•3 days ago

no human being is illegal
knock it off

gentlystream.bsky.social•3 days ago

A waste of **our taxpayer** money.

labsp61.bsky.social•3 days ago

Waste, fraud and abuse....the trifecta!

subphr3q.bsky.social•3 days ago

👀 wonder how many of those folks would self deport for $100k?

could live frugally for a ~decade ish on a beach in Thailand 🇹🇭 with that much money 💰.

seems like a kinder option.

bluewest18.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh but they are all for cutting wasteful government spending??

samstribling1.bsky.social•3 days ago

"efficiency"

joopsiegrl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Assholery is expensive. Crush them

littlemiss356.bsky.social•3 days ago

And they were returned to the US because the detainment was illegal. You can't make this stuff up.

fmbarclar.bsky.social•3 days ago

That’s what I heard too. Why he is sending Cubans with asylum back - they refused to do Trump’s bidding.

steelergal126.bsky.social•4 days ago

And how many are really illegal!

hypocritesbeware.bsky.social•3 days ago

But he's played a lot of golf on the tax payer's dime!

athion.bsky.social•3 days ago

And it cost American taxpayers over $27,000 for EACH of the detainees to fly on a military cargo aircraft to the prison camp. That's alt-smart, a Republican specialty.

beansagain.bsky.social•4 days ago

Where is DOGE? Cutting waste?

jason2759.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think we find out why the federal spending is higher than Biden.

keil-d.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's almost like it isn't about saving money or efficiency at all.

marie-14.bsky.social•4 days ago

Unnecessary waste. It’s one thing to waste his own money on tacky crap. But now he is wasting our money on his BS imprisoning innocent people with criminals. I have tattoos and I am not a criminal. Yet still republicans still support him or afraid. I hate him.

mewlala.bsky.social•4 days ago

26 million to golf for just one person! WTF is doge ?

luckiiyu7.bsky.social•3 days ago

Tell us again how the dumpster fire is more efficient? 🙄

1mess2many.bsky.social•3 days ago

He would have been ahead if he let them stay, work and pay taxes.

timeintheland.bsky.social•3 days ago

butterflylife68.bsky.social•4 days ago

Donald IS THE WASTE🤦🏻‍♀️

Psst
Side note…
Hillary is on BlueSky! 💙👏🏻💙

truebluebeliever.bsky.social•4 days ago

F47 is the Waste, the Fraud and Abuse. He's the DOGE trifecta.

oddmediapro.bsky.social•4 days ago

But yet, we don’t have enough money for air traffic controllers

halostarmusic.bsky.social•4 days ago

👆🏼Plus 26 million so far to go golfing every freakin weekend while this is happening!!! 🤬🗽💫🎶

Utlra #VileSmush

🄵Elon-❹❼ Edition

#FUCKTRUMP

debkop727.bsky.social•3 days ago

Such "Government Efficiency"

azjpm.bsky.social•4 days ago

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes Trump
Is costing us millions. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/?m=1

justtim99.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump is smart business man yes or no? Or is his and his friends hands in the kitty? Where's this money going?

briankc.bsky.social•4 days ago

The cruelty is the point, and when the cruelty is the point then the cost doesn't matter to the so-called party of fiscal responsibility.

jas-gar.bsky.social•3 days ago

Most of those detainees could have been in Florida, Georgia or Texas picking crops and lowering the actual prices of groceries, while paying into the system. Instead we are paying for their imprisonment moving our volume of those imprisoned even more overblown compared to other countries.

abbyf1030.bsky.social•4 days ago

While he has played golf 10 out of 11 weekends to the tune of $26 million!!

ajl22.bsky.social•3 days ago

He & his administration are committing FRAUD, WASTE & ABUSE in real time!

ratatouillecat.bsky.social•4 days ago

The US government has spent 7 percent YTD more in 2025 than in 2024. At first I asked how? Now I know.

ratatouillecat.bsky.social•4 days ago

So most of those illegals were probably doing one of those jobs Florida’s 14 year olds are now doing, and some of them were probably paying taxes. Great trade off. Musk whines about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme but when people actually try to pay in, Trump would rather deport you.

coconutlizard.bsky.social•3 days ago

Then I thought they closed it again and moved them someplace else. What did that cost? I seriously feel like they haven’t saved any money and probably spent more than we would have by paying Dogshit people giving contracts to the rat and doing these ridiculous PR stunt deportations that hurt people

johnlouiseisenberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

AND $26,000,000.00 GOLFING

mcsweeney.bsky.social•3 days ago

And don't forget the additional cost of using expensive military planes at astronomical costs compared to leasing commercial aircraft.

johnlouiseisenberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm 69yrs old and from Manhattan. I'm painfully aware of what the Trump and Kushner CRIME Families are capable of.

mcsweeney.bsky.social•3 days ago

Any idea how democracy survives this onslaught.

johnlouiseisenberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

For now, the courts are our only backstop.
Hopefully, Congress will turn Blue, and Hakeem Jeffries will become Speaker and runs interference until the 2026 Midterms, when the Republican Backlash will be Unleashed.

mcsweeney.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh, democracy won't survive another three months at this rate. Something has to give. By 2026 there will be nothing left to the election system.

jbcarrington.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump's decisions and golfing are surely the target of DOGE's focus on fraud, waste, and inefficiency.

nodrog.bsky.social•3 days ago

Could've sent them to Mar-a-Lago for that amount

beelovevoteblue.bsky.social•3 days ago

But somehow helping out the crushing burden of over charged interest on student loans so people can buy homes and invest money is bad for the economy

scottiedadg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ask the farmers how they are doing. I am sure they are having no problems finding workers.

bihuns.bsky.social•3 days ago

The irony!

oneonline.bsky.social•3 days ago

Smart business sense. Now he’ll lay off some more federal workers.

flashgordon21.bsky.social•3 days ago

A bargain when you see the cost of his rounds of golf add up to that 🫣

monminie.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is a savings compared to his tax payers funded golf trips

pmatsey.bsky.social•4 days ago

Add that to his "golf in Florida every weekend" spending

bekindforthefuture.bsky.social•4 days ago

AKA The Cost To Put On A Performance Of Cruelty For The Bigot Block Of Their Voting Base.

cmango.bsky.social•3 days ago

He grifted at least 60% of that total. Guaranteed.

cjmmusic1.bsky.social•4 days ago

mcsweeney.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought the point was deportation not incarceration without due process.

timeintheland.bsky.social•3 days ago

mcsweeney.bsky.social•3 days ago

And then they shut it all down.

jbamom.bsky.social•4 days ago

All performative and meant to intimidate.

solomongrndy.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's not as though it comes out of his pocket

gstreeter.bsky.social•4 days ago

What’s the source? I was thinking this was super costly especially when he could have just signed the bi-partisan immigration bill..

artcandee.bsky.social•4 days ago

NYT.

gstreeter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you

happycamper22.bsky.social•4 days ago

For $50,000 a person, he could have put them up in a 4 star hotel closest to their homes. No guards needed. Who'd want to give that up?

lisac1.bsky.social•4 days ago

He wants a "show".

bf1930.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's not counting how much it cost the economy to scare millions of other immigrants from showing up to work.

Florida wants to enable teens to work those jobs now...