Trump NUCLEAR, floats DEPORTING Elon Musk to South Africa

Trump hints at deporting Elon Musk to South Africa for criticizing him, escalating their public feud

In this segment, Donald Trump escalates his feud with Elon Musk by suggesting that the U.S. should “take a look at” deporting Musk back to South Africa—despite Musk being a naturalized U.S. citizen. The remarks come amid Trump’s anger over losing Musk’s support and reflect a broader pattern of Trump using threats of state power to settle personal scores. While the idea of deporting Musk has no legal basis, it fits within the Trump-era Department of Justice’s disturbing interest in “denaturalization”—stripping citizenship from naturalized Americans, a tactic that could potentially target others beyond Musk.

Trump also endorses a bizarre and dystopian idea dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”—a prison for undocumented immigrants supposedly protected by alligators, with Trump joking about escapees learning to run in zigzags to avoid being eaten. The segment closes by emphasizing how normalized cruelty has become in Trump’s rhetoric, often brushing aside constitutional protections like the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. What used to be considered fringe or unacceptable is now floated casually at press events, reflecting a broader erosion of legal norms and democratic principles in Trump's political worldview.

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