Dear Trump administration... I've already decided never to visit the US, you don't have to sell it to me.
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Perfect fit
Chill bro, we didn't need another reason not to visit. We got it.
🤦🏻♀️ What about the people who don't use social media? Or have used social media for less than 5 years?
Or people who disclose a suspiciously wholesome 5 years of social media use? Or use social media platforms that allow backdated posts - how well are those going to be scrutinised?
Why am I even asking? This is all so stupid. People only want to travel to places where they won't be immediately grilled on what they think of the dictator. (...Out of curiosity, what's the process like for North Korea? Strictly for comparison.)
If they find out, out the door you go.
I'm pretty sure the only posts I've put on Facebook in the past five years are all a version of, "Hey, I'm just checking in so y'all know I'm still alive." I haven't updated my personal information on there in about a decade.
None of you better come here. I'm not saying this because I don't want you here, I'm saying it because we are literally on fire right now. We have a lot of finding out to do.
Check under your couch for Russians. Or Venezuelans. Or is it Chinese? Whatever it is, it's certainly not a home-made problem.
This should be in Not the Onion. This is so farcical.
Yea yea got it, US geography is all nice and that but I am not trying to visit there until there is zero chance of getting detained by ICE or border control "because of reasons".
You can always be white and rich, that usually works.
Wow. Even China doesn't do that.
edit Might be that they don't need to get it from you
Ikr? Yet people are so afraid to visit China by contrast...
(Not that I blame theme)
Between China and the US I'd currently be less worried about visiting China. And I'm a white dude who has bashed the CCP online plenty.
No thanks
FIFA world cup is going to be a shit show.
Wow. Next year's World Cup is going to be either the biggest debacle, or played to empty stadiums (in the USA anyway). What a complete and utter fuck up.
Ah, classic

Lol - looks like my old man is never getting to the US. He posts at least 1 meme a day on Facebook that comedically shits on Trump. It's become something of an obsession.
Meanwhile, my brother-in-law is hoping to get to Boston with my nephew to watch Scotland play at the world cup. He's been frantically un-liking dad's posts and deleting his own for days.
More realistically: tourists will just stop coming here.
Maybe that's the intent?
I mean it genuinely is, seems like others are still in denial and not getting the message.
European: Haha, yeah I hate foreigners too! Now, onto our vacation in the Florida Keys-
Trump: No, you. I meant you. Get out.
He's getting his buddies those covid-era interest rates, one way or another. Our sacrifices are ones he's willing to make.
Pages 732 and 736 of project 2025 (50% complete already btw) outline the "suffolk banking system" that they're forcing.
Combine SCOTUS ruling on the 14th amendment in summer of 26 and you can start to see the narrative of canceled midterms. Dude jerks off to the thought of surpressing riots
That's WILD hahahaha
I understand relatives and work, but anyone out there who is still "touring" the US at this point deserves their Darwin Award.
I've been sending emails to hotel companies and urging them to oppose this. I urge you to contact your congresspeople and also companies in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry and demand they oppose this policy and more broadly ask them to stand up to Trump because he's causing people to rightfully boycott the US.
Also to everyone who is boycotting the US thank you so so much, I'm really grateful and as are so many Americans who also hate what the Trump regime is doing. The more people who boycott the more pressure it will put on companies to finally stand up against the Trump regime.
The US are really working hard to get prohibition, 30's great depression, and McCarthyism all at once.
Some other things from the 30s, too.
The snazzy European uniforms?
"In addition to social media histories, Customs and Border Protection would add other new data collection fields, including email addresses and telephone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the addresses and names of family members, the notice reads."
Wtf I was planning to visit NYC but this is crazy man.
I don't know why anyone is still visiting the Untied States but I hope this deters them
funny they dont report in the news how the red areas that are dependant on tourism is actually doing. the gop dont want alarm thier own supporters how bad the situation is, just like they are reporting the news, that trump is using the tariff money to pay off the farmers right now.
This is our daily reminder that the Republican party has revoked the US Constitution in its entirety.
How on earth can the people who voted for this piece of shit not see him for the coward that he is?
People who wanted this to happen so they can turn the country into another isolated ethnic state.
Yet another reason to avoid the US as a tourist. Looks like hotels and airlines did not bribe Trump sufficiently.
Seriously, this is so stupid. I'm never setting foot in US soil ever again.
Another reason to never set foot in the fascist states of dumberikkka ever again!!

Hey now, to be fair we're a vassal state of ruzzia.
People are already boycotting the us, they don't need another reason.
Soon it will be easier to visit North Korea than the USA, which I suspect is the plan.
You think it's going to stop there? US citizens will soon have to do the same, or be on the no fly list.
Or, and hear me out on this, he can fuck right off.
Then again I'm not the target for this type of tyrannical despotism because there's absolutely no chance I'd ever willingly visit that place.