Is it safe to visit The US?

Yes, well, not taking in actual information is a required factor in being pro-Trump.

We went last year to California and Hawaii (booked before Trump). I enjoyed San Francisco but we were staying in a bit where all the homeless and fentanyl people hung out and that was unnerving. Although we figured they couldn’t do anything to us as they were zombiefied. But it was grim, human excrement on the pavement etc. it was ok once we got closer to the bay.

We love visiting the states and used to go most years. We were meant to be at Disney this year but decided to go to Jamaica instead. I just don’t want to go spend my money in a country that is treating us like crap.

Also I know of a couple of people who married American's and have green cards. Their renewals have been out on hold indefinitely so they can’t leave the country as they may not be let back in, and they have kids and poorly relatives. They have missed funerals, family celebrations etc because they are stuck in limbo.

My H also got pulled up once at JFK, he is white but for some reason they thought he was involved with Iraqi terror…..luckily the system was just screwed up and the policeman took one look and knew he was fine, but it was a scary half hour. Would dread to think what would have happened if he had been Asian or Arab. We were flagged for enhanced security for the rest of the trip which was a total ballache as we had several internal flights and got flagged every time.

So basically, not in a rush to go back until Trump is gone and they start being less of an asshole to the rest of the world.

I don't see the UK doing Vladimir Putin's bidding for him. Nor are brown people in the UK being rounded up by masked thugs, with anyone who objects being executed in the street.

"But jury trials..." you realise that most countries only use jury trials for the most serious crimes, just like the UK plans to?

As for Mandelson, you realise that he's been sacked, right? Whereas Trump is very much still in office.

Tourists visited Germany right up to 1940. Some people have absolutely no integrity

I don't think it's a real post. Just sh**t stirring

I was stopped for hours at JFK airport, only for a few hours but for literally no reason (I had my esta, I've never been arrested or had anything on my record other than a speeding ticket, never posted anti trump things on sm, I'm just a normal white, middle class lady - not that it should change anything). It was scary, and whilst I think it was more of a random stop and check, nobody told me anything and I was basically frog marched to a small room and left there for an hour, my friend had gone to baggage collection and knew nothing about it, as far as she was concerned i had vanished. After an hour someone took my fingerprints, asked me some questions, then they left me again, another hour passed and they let me go. No explanation, no apology. My main issue is just how dismissive and rude the border control guys are in parts of the US and that theyre politically and financially motivated to stop and remove (they get a bonus).
We aren't going again, I don't want to support that type of politics and it's not pleasant. The comments being made against the UK are deliberately untrue, there are statements made about us, our cities and our political leaders that are really offensive. My husband goes for work often, he can't avoid it, and youre right - i dont believe he will be randomly dragged off by ICE but he has had to ignore situations he would intervene in at home because of the culture and potential for risk (racist shouts at other people, aggresive policing, checking racial minorities Id even at clearly professional events, where at home he would step forward and calm everyone down, he feels he cannot there). There's just nicer, happier, calmer places to go that I'd rather holiday. Each to their own, you can go wherever you like and its none of anyone else's business, but its naive to not understand other people's perspective or to negate other people's experiences. We are in thailand and feel much safer and much more welcome than we did in the US and haven't seen a single gun and nobody has randomly stopped us or shouted at us.

We have been to the US many times and lived there for a few years. We went last year and will be going again this summer to see friends and do a road trip. We have visited many states over the years and have found the people very friendly on the whole, definitely friendlier than the UK.

What an absolutely ludicrous thing to write - what does it say about someone’s morals if they think it acceptable to visit the UK?

How do you think the rest of the world views the systemic coverup of Pakistani grooming gangs?

The crack down on freedom of expression via recording of non crime hate incidents?
the targeting and firing of female academics who dared define women as a biological reality, the erosion of women’s rights and spaces?

David Lammy’s proposal to radically restrict jury trials, an erosion of a fundamental democratic and constitutional safeguard which has been the cornerstone of the UK’s adversarial justice system since the Magna Carta?

Peter Mandelson sharing sensitive government information with Epstein, arranging for Epstein’s goddaughter to be given a tour of No 10 while Epstein was in prison!

I’m not American (in fact I live in a commonwealth country) but to pretend the US is an outlier and somehow beyond the pale is ridiculous.

No tariffs, I suppose

I hope you have the visit you deserve.

Ah you’re that poster. Tedious.

They're $1 CAD in the store here today 😊

They come in a packet of four for $4.99 in my local Walmart. They will go on sale tomorrow, and on Monday they'll be even cheaper.

Can't speak for YankSplaining's local price.

I think the biggest risk is the damage to your personal morals if you think it is acceptable to go to America on holiday.

I appreciate people might have no option if it is a work trip or it is to see family but to go there from choice for fun is utterly wrong in my opinion.

Yes, my son's Canadian friend was taken into a room at a US airport, told to list all his social media account names and to open his devices. Held for hours and then allowed to leave.

A civil suit found his actions to be tantamount to rape.

He also has a bunch of convictions for falsifying business records after he paid a woman off. That dishonesty would be enough to bar him from working at a school.

He also got indicted under the Espionage Act and for obstructing justice. The judge in that case just happened to be a notoriously corrupt one he appointed who dragged the case out long enough for him to regain control of the DoJ and drop it.

Then there were more charges for inciting an insurrection and for attempting to tamper with an election. His lawyers again dragged that out long enough to get his own DoJ to abandon it.

It's like trying to get charges to stick on a Mafia Don.

I'm in the US right now for a week. It's fine, everything is fine.

Things have definitely changed (we visit family regularly) but it's just normal life.

He's not exactly subtle about being a nonce. He bragged about deliberately walking in on girls changing at the pageant he bought.

Funnily enough it's difficult to get someone in court when his personal lawyer runs the DoJ. They fought tooth and nail to keep the Epstein files under wraps and even now have failed to release millions of entries. There's plenty of incriminating evidence among what they have released though.

Of course, Epstein was investigated in 2007 but yet another of Trump's lackeys got him a cushy plea deal. Now Ghislane Maxwell is sitting in a low-security prison being waited on hand and foot - she even gets a puppy. Keeps her from talking, I suppose.

If you don't want to look guilty, don't act like you've got so much to hide.

Come on then, given that you'll twist and turn so much to deflect from his behaviour, what is it about the fat orange incontinent paedo that you think is so great?

Well that's ok then. As long as he only lies and cheats for profit he's absolutely a fit person to be leader of the free world. And self admitted ' pussy grabbing I'd is just fining us women what we want.

I'm a rich, white, middle class, middle aged woman. I wouldn't risk setting foot there atm.

the regime there is getting more and more like pre-war Germany.

Go if you want. I wouldn't while that utter belled has control. But hey, I guess that makes me insane in your book. I'd say it means I have morals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump

He is categorically a rapist.

I think arguing whether someone is innocent until proven guilty when they control the system that looks for evidence of guilt, and redacted his name from files including multiple offences, would piss off even Blackstone.

He is a rapist. I firmly believe of children as well. But he’s definitely a rapist.

Trump is deranged and an embarrassment to the country. That doesn’t mean the U.S. is now a facist nation or that it is lawless and overrun by racists abs biggots. We very much continue to have free speech with massive turnouts for protests. The tide is turning against him. No one is checking the social media of hundreds of thousands of travelers a week, nothing has passed that will require tourists to put down their social media info in order to get an ESTA. It remains safe to visit the U.S. in general no matter what your race, religion, sexual orientation etc. Are there places to avoid, sure but that is the same in every country. If you don’t want to visit I understand but the generalizations are too much and some of the comments are downright insulting making offensive assumptions about all people living in the US. Most of us don’t want this fool in the White House but also don’t have the opportunity to leave because of him (even people who are dual citizens and could theoretically go elsewhere, if only it was that easy!)

I know if you are going to work over there, then yes they do check your social media. Not sure they do if it's for a holiday.

go on, I'll bite. In what POSSIBLE way is the racist, war-mongering, demented sex offender currently president of the US 'great'?