The Second Coming of Donald Dumpling - July 2025

 

July 1, 2025: Ah, summer. Baseball. Hot dogs. Trips to the beach. And Trump grifting. The president gets the month off to a perfect Trumpian start, announcing he will be selling new “Trump fragrances,” called “Victory 45-47.” 

Spray this shit all over your body (and it comes in men’s and women’s choices) and you will know that nothing smells so much like “Winning, Strength, and Success,” as the crap Donald wants you to buy. 

You can even spray it in your new Alligator Alcatraz hat, our spray it in your Trump brand golden tennis shoes. 

Yours for only $249 per bottle. 

What a steal! 

 

Also for sale: A special limited-edition cologne for men, called, “Fight, Fight, Fight,” which comes in a generous 3.3 oz. bottle. Yours for only $425. 

The blogger would like to suggest a new fragrance, to be sold under the Trump imprimatur: “Smells like Fascism.” 

Today, the president suggested that what he’d really love to do would be to start deporting American citizens. You know, he told reporters, “We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that’ll be the next job.” 

Priceless! 

 

FUN WITH FOOLS: The president also found time in his busy day to post a video of himself as a patriotic-themed rock star, playing the guitar with a vengeance, accompanied by scantily clad patriotic ladies.

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7/2/25: The January 6 rioters continued to cover themselves in shame. Today, Edward Kelley – he of the blanket presidential pardons in January – is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. 

As The New Republic reports: 

Kelley was convicted on the charges of conspiracy to murder federal employees, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, and influencing a federal official by threat.

 

Kelley received his sentencing in front of more than a dozen of the targets on his “kill list,” which had specifically taken aim at individuals working at the FBI’s headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

 

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Speaking of “shame,” President Trump paid tribute to Jimmy Swaggart, 90, who passed away this week. 

“He was an incredible Man of Faith and, as our Nation’s longest serving Televangelist, inspired millions with his Great Love of God and Country,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Jimmy will be deeply missed!” 

What Jimmy was, for real, was a great hypocrite who attacked other leading evangelists for having affairs – and then got caught having affairs of his own. Swaggart also spent lavishly on cars and clothes and palatial homes – and on prostitutes. Jimmy really liked the whores, and was caught multiple times cheating on his wife. 

(Trump’s kind of preacher, for sure.)

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7/3/25: The jobs report is better than expected. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 147,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in June. April and May numbers were adjusted, with 16,000 more jobs added than had been thought. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. 

That brings the total for the first six months this year (subject to slight revisions) to 782,000 jobs added. 

Trump magic, baby – 130,000 jobs per month!!! 

In the first six months of 2024, we should note that 985,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy, under “Sleepy Joe” Biden. 

According to my math, that would be 164,167 jobs per month – which I believe (blogger checks his glasses) would be, um…better.

 

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On a positive note, the Dow Jone average is up more than 300 points, when I check just before noon. At 44,814.63, it’s a new record high.

 

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In other news, Republicans manage to push through Donald’s budget bill, which they swear will put deficit spending into reverse. We will save gazillions, and our children and their children will sing our praises after we are gone. 

I decide to check the U.S. Debt Clock – which is always fun. At 3 p.m., give or take a minute, I snap a photo. 

The numbers move fast, and never stop rising, but at that moment the national debt tops out at $37,057,124,980,792. 

That comes out to $108,111 per person – for every citizen, of every age and sex, in this country. 

 

Team Trump says the new budget bill is going to save us $1.6 trillion, not add to the debt. So I will check back periodically in the next four years, and I will be thrilled to see those numbers go twirling in reverse.

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7/4/25: President Trump covers himself in shame once again, on the eve of this day celebrated by all Americans. 

In a speech in Iowa, he wallowed in the hatred he feels for so many of the people he was elected to serve and did his best to rev up the anger the MAGA folks might feel for the targets of his bile. 

Taking aim at Democratic lawmakers who had voted against his “Big, Beautiful Budget Bill,” he boiled. “They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that?” 

“I really do. I hate them,” he repeated. “I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country, if you want to know the truth.” 

As the Daily Beast notes, the president’s “tone was strange given that the event, on the eve of July 4, was organized as a non-political celebration. Trump’s liaison to the organizing group, America250, said that it was designed to bring Americans together.” Which President Bozo did not.

 

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Sadly, in Central Texas, tragedy strikes, in this case in the form of a raging flood. Scientists have warned that climate change will lead to an increase in abnormal rainfall, and cause catastrophic floods to occur more frequently, and areas along the Guadalupe River saw ten inches of rain in a few hours. The river rose so rapidly that rescue operations hardly had time to act. An all-girls Christian camp was inundated by roaring water – and between 23 and 25 youngsters are missing. 

We also know that 24 people are dead. 

At times like this, hearts go out to all the families who have suffered great loss, and we are reminded once more that good people of all political persuasions stand ready to help. We live in a good country, surrounded by good people. 

That’s my takeaway for the day. 

Eloise Peck, left, Lila Bonner, right – missing tonight.

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7/5/25: Donald Trump rises from his bed this morning, knowing that he has achieved one of his main goals – to make sure the federal deficit does not grow during his second term… 

Okay, no. Not that goal. 

To protect the environ… 

No. He doesn’t care about the environment. 

To pass whopping new tax cuts for billionaires (including himself) – yeah, that’s the one. As he has been insisting since the bill was signed, just before the July Fourth weekend, everyone will love this bill. The American people will be so happy, they will clamor for Donald’s face to be added to Mt. Rushmore – maybe by chipping off Abraham Lincoln to make space. 

Ah, reality. What a pain. 

Last week, CNN took note of results  from several polls. According to the Washington Post the Big, Beautiful Budget Bill had a net approval rating of -19 percent. Pew Research Centre had it at -20, Fox News at -21, Quinnipiac University at -26, and the Kaiser Family Foundation at -29. 

That would put the bill just ahead of leprosy.

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7/6/25: Thank God! Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is on watch and ready to do her part to help the people of Texas, now reeling from a flooding disaster along the Guadalupe River. Congresswoman Greene, ever ready to trot out some bizarre new conspiracy theory, is prepared to pounce. 

I mean “act.” 

In the wake of this tragedy – 67 known dead, so far – she proudly announces: “I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense. I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill. It will be similar to Florida’s Senate Bill 56. We must end the dangerous and deadly practice of weather modification and geoengineering. This is not normal.” 

Greene is correct, but for the wrong reasons. Scientists have repeatedly explained how climate change will alter weather patterns, including making disastrous rain events more common. The science is not complicated – and even Greene can probably grasp it, assuming she gets her head out of her ass. 

Weather predictions were calling for up to five inches of rain before the flood developed. Instead, the Texas Hill Country got ten –in some places fifteen.

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7/7/25: Attorney General Pam Bondi stuns the MAGA faithful when she announces that there is no list of clients for Jeffrey Epstein. 

And Epstein committed suicide. 

Weeping can be heard in all corners of Trumpistan. The MAGA faithful were sure a million Democratic pedophiles were going to be revealed. 

They were sure Obama would be outed as the person who ordered Epstein killed in his jail cell. 

(Even though Trump was president when Epstein died.)

 

It was almost as if all the MAGA talk about Epstein and Democrats, and child-trafficking rings was horse manure. 

And you had to wonder why Bondi once said that she had “the list” of Jeffrey’s clients on her desk. 

She even staged a White House photo op, calling in several “influencers” and handing them big fat binders marked “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” – and the MAGA believers danced in the streets – and waited for the forces of Satan to be revealed. 

And now? 

Zippo. 

The denouement was so embarrassing that when the Justice Department and the FBI released a two-page memo announcing the end of the investigation, it was not signed by any individual official. 

Whoever wrote the memo simply said, “One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims. Perpetuating unfounded theories about Epstein serves neither of those ends.” 

The blogger could have told you that four years ago, when the right wingers started telling their tall tales. 

Donald and Melania, left with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, right.

(Note: The blogger would love to see every one of Epstein’s clients go to jail.) 

(There can be little doubt that powerful individuals are avoiding justice.)

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7/8/25: The scope of the flooding tragedy in Texas becomes clearer and more horrible. The death toll passes a hundred, with scores still missing.

ICE in Action: Even Donald Doesn't Know Who to Arrest

 

ICE in action: Cruelty and Confusion. 

Let’s make Rep. Randy Weber, congressman from Texas, the poster boy for the cruel and unusual punishments being unnecessarily inflicted upon undocumented immigrants, only a fraction of whom are hardened criminals, or real threats to this country. Recently, Rep. Weber showed up for a radio interview and started cracking a few jokes. 

In homage to his beloved president’s plan to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to self-deport, Weber suggested flying them back to their home countries, but with a twist. Once overhead, he said, you could open an exit door and offer them a choice: money or a parachute. 

Funny, right! 

Enough to make Adolf Hitler laugh.

A regular comedian - Congressman Weber.

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Reasons not to approve of ICE tactics:  

1. An illegal immigrant in Colorado attacks a pro-Israel demonstration with a homemade flamethrower. Eight people are injured, including six with burns. One victim later dies of her injuries. 

(MAGA types insist this proves all undocumented persons should get the boot.) 

(The liberal blogger considers his crime heinous – but it’s his crime, no other’s.)

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2. A Minnesota man, and sometimes evangelical Christian preacher kills one Democratic politician, her husband, and wounds two others. 

(MAGA types don’t insist this proves all evangelicals are dangerous.) 

(The blogger knows it is stupid to blame entire groups.)

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3. An Alabama couple finds out the hard way that Trump immigration policies aren’t going to be nuanced or humane. Morgan Karimi voted for Donald, believing ICE would go after criminal scumbags. Sadly, ICE grabbed her husband Ribvar, 26, who had fled Iran. Mrs. Karimi says she and her family no longer support Donald.

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4. ICE agents decide to waste time and resources arresting a “dangerous” Massachusetts high school student, who has been living in this country, and going to school since age six. On his graduation weekend! 

(Do you feel safer, America?)

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5. The blogger thinks ICE should focus more on the flamethrower guys (See: #1) and not high school kids, who could be deported to countries they hardly know. Or to South Sudan – a hell hole. 

The astute American would quickly realize that sending deportees, particularly deportees with no criminal record, to South Sudan would be “cruel and unusual punishment.” 

Same goes for El Salvador.

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6. CBS News estimates that 47% of immigrant detainees currently in ICE custody have no criminal record.

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7. Narciso Barranco has sent three sons to the United States Marines. Two are currently serving. ICE just chased down their dad, who was doing landscaping work in Santa Anna, California. When agents pinned him to the ground, one started pummeling him in the head. 

(Across the U.S. Armed Forces, 19.5% of all personnel identify as Hispanic.)

 

Alejandro Barranco, Narciso’s oldest son, says his family feels “betrayed.” Part of his time in the Marines was spent on duty in Kabul, when Afghanistan fell, and thirteen Marines (like him) were killed by a suicide bomber. 

(“Thank you for your service.” Isn’t that what MAGAs say?)

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8. Federal agents nab a “dangerous mother” of three, including a five-year-old daughter with severe autism, and prepare to ship her to whatever country Donald Trump might choose. 

“Goodbye, mama.” 

The children are U.S. citizens.

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9. ICE agents strike fear in the hearts of dangerous criminals everywhere by arresting a former U.S. Army interpreter who helped our fighting men and women (and trans soldiers) in Afghanistan. 

“I came here to make a better life,” the Afghan-born refugee can be heard saying in video of his arrest. “I didn’t know that this would happen… I worked with the U.S. military.” His name has been withheld for fear of Taliban retaliation, if he is denied asylum.

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10. On Truth Social, on June 12, Mr. Trump changes course, regarding ICE enforcement. He’s like a moose learning to ice skate. 

“Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted] away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” he explains. “We must protect our farmers,” he continues, “but get criminals out of the U.S.A. Changes are coming.”

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11. According to The New York Times, the next day an email goes out. ICE is ordered to stop acting like ICE until further notice (unless enforcement operations can be used to stir up blue cities like Los Angeles). 

“Effective today,” Tatum King, a top ICE official writes, “please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.” 

Agents are also told to stop arresting “non-criminal collaterals,” or people who might be here illegally, but not criminals.

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12. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, as recently as 2022, 42% of farm workers in this country were undocumented, with another 19% authorized foreign workers or green card holders. 

(What happened to the Biden-caused “invasion” of illegals???)

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13. Extreme MAGA types and born haters in the Trump administration react with fury to the news of planned enforcement changes (#10).

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14. The moose on ice skates tries to change direction again but runs into the skating rink wall and breaks a leg. On Monday, June 17, The Washington Post reports that ICE agents have been told they must continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels and restaurants. The first clarifications were already in the works on Sunday, and the “new instructions were shared [on Monday] in an 11 a.m. call to representatives from 30 field offices across the country.

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15. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear dresses up as an ICE agent, stops your A+ Roofing van, and drags away five of your “criminal” employees. This is funny (except for the workers) because Vincent Scardina, the owner of said Florida company, is a big Trump supporter. 

(Criminals captured: 0.)

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16. “Thank you for your service,” as they say. Adrian Clouatre, who says he “gave up the best five years” of his life to serve with the Marines, is now short one wife. U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents snatched her up when she showed up for a green card interview.  

The former Marine isn’t asking for much. “At the very least, I would like to be able to keep my wife,” he told a reporter. He and his spouse, Paolo, have two children, a 1-year-old boy, and a nine-week-old daughter. 

(Criminals captured: 0. American family members deprived of a loved one: 3)

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17. Glenn Valley Foods’ plant in Omaha, Nebraska is shut down, as ICE agents take away 76 undocumented employees and employees suspected of using false papers. (That would be 35% of the plant workforce.)

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18. Again, many of the workers taken have been in this country for years and have children who are citizens.

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19. Once again, the ICE guys who wear masks so we can’t figure out who they are, have snagged a “dangerous” illegal immigrant, this time, right here in Cincinnati, where the blogger lives. In this case, the wilily “killer” is Emerson Colindres, a 19-year-old high school graduate and soccer star. 

In fact, Colindres must have been secretly plotting a strike by not having a criminal record, as if to make himself look unthreatening, and cleverly showing up for a routine check-in with immigration authorities at their office in Blue Ash. 

No doubt, this “monster” has been waiting patiently, preparing to strike, having come here from Honduras at the age of eight. 

Clearly, as President Trump could explain, Emerson, is a threat to all of us, every day of our lives, just waiting to kick us to death with his soccer cleats. 

In fact, he comes from a nest of “vipers,” as Channel 19 explains: 

Fleeing persecution from gangs, Colindres’ mother, Baquedano Amador, has said she applied for asylum when she arrived in this country with her son and now-16-year-old daughter in 2014.

 

A judge denied her application, and the family was given a final order of removal in 2023.

 

ICE officials recently told his mother that she and her daughter must leave the country within 30 days.

 

Catholic charities have been trying to help the family – but I think this means all Catholics hate America and oppose the rule of law.

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20. Deporting criminals who want to slit our throats, that’s fine. The problem is that ICE recently grabbed Maria Isidro, wife of a Florida pastor, who had been living in this country for almost thirty years and shipped her back to Mexico. 

That arrest was announced on Facebook recently, by her daughter Daniella, who has now been deprived of her mom. 

“She’s just being treated as though she’s not a human,” a family friend says. 

(And this is exactly what Stephen Miller wants.)

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21. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announces a brilliant new plan for how to help ICE do God’s work. He will build a detention center in the middle of the Everglades, and surround it with “gators, crocs and snakes,” what he describes as a “low-cost” solution for detaining “criminal aliens.”

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22. Right-wing haters are ecstatic. “Alligator Alcatraz” merch goes on sale, kind of like if the Nazis had “Make Auschwitz Great Again” gear for sale, because what could be funnier than escapees being torn apart by hungry beasts! 

Or “undesirables” gassed.

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23. Leading hater, Laura Loomer, gets aroused just thinking about the fact that the Trump administration may soon deport 65 million illegals – which just so happens to be the number of all Latino individuals currently living in this country. 

 (Loomer is also a big hater of Muslims, including Muslim Americans.) 

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24. Striking swiftly, to protect us all from killer illegals, ICE arrests Moises Sotelo-Casas, described as “a popular Oregon vineyard owner,” who was caught in the act of going to church. His daughter, Alondra, told KGW8 NEWS, “He was in chains at his feet... everything was taken from him.” 

According to a GoFundMe set up by his family, the prisoner is a husband, father of three and a grandfather. 

In 2020, he was awarded the annual Vineyard Excellence Award by the Oregon Wine Board. So, I think we can all agree, his arrest now keeps us safe from corkscrews. Something like that. 

(Also: Killer grandpas.)

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25. ICE sweeps up another killer nursing school graduate off the streets, after Caroline Dias Goncalves, 19, is caught in the act of driving too close behind a truck in Colorado. Let off by the officer who stopped her, he notifies ICE, and another “horrible” human being is taken away.

 (As the MAGAs love to say, “I voted for this.”)

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26. If you did, you are kind of a giant asshole, I would say. Heretofore, Goncalves was protected by the DACA program – and for that reason, for now, she has been able to retain a lawyer and has been released from detention. 

Are we sure we need to be protected from her? 

And not ICE? 

Goncalves - a danger to others?

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27. In another raid, ICE agents arrest four restaurant workers in San Diego, who are doubtless intent on poisoning the food of unsuspecting MAGA diners – which, of course, has never happened before. They also chased down a worker at a car wash, where I think the danger was, he might have scratched cars’ paint. Also, they showed up at an LA Fitness gym, ready to grab any illegals who might drop dumbbells on patrons’ heads; and, best of all, they keep showing up for immigration court hearings and handcuffing dangerous illegals who have come to court as required.

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28. The men and women (but no transgenders!) of ICE have grabbed another killer off the streets. This time they arrest the wife of a Ayssac Correa, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, and deport her. 

By one estimate, as many as 80,000 undocumented spouses and parents of active-duty personnel may be living in this country. 

Wouldn’t it be great if one of the Marines Trump sent to Los Angeles to help ICE, ended up helping deport his or her own parents! 

(Laura Loomer would be thrilled, as would be White House advisor Stephen Miller.) 

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29. After ginning up anti-immigrant terror for years, Donald Trump is slowly coming to the realization that Donald is a dope. (We could have told him that in 2015, as soon as he and Melania came floating down that golden escalator.) 

Suddenly, he realizes that all Mexicans aren’t “killers” and “rapists,” and he’s changing deportation strategy again!! 

On Friday, June 20, he announces his latest plan. He wants farmers to know they might be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing ICE will come grab them before they can load all the lettuce on the trucks. 

“We’re looking at doing something where in the case of good, reputable farmers, they can take responsibility for the people that they hire, and let them have responsibility, because we can’t put the farms out of business, and at the same time, we don’t want to hurt people that aren’t criminals,” Trump tells reporters.

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30. Really, President Moron? You “don’t want to hurt people that aren’t criminals?” Really!!! 

Tell the pastor’s wife (above). 

Or the soccer kid who was here in Cincinnati (above). 

But now he’s gone. 

Fuck! Who the fuck thinks President Moron really knows what the fuck he’s doing at this point?

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31. The agents from ICE move swiftly, once more, to make America safe from 64-year-old criminal immigrants working in their garden with sharp gardening tools. Such as trowels. Madonna “Donna” Kashanian has lived in this country for 47 years, since fleeing Iran – and has no known criminal record. But now, maybe we can deport her back to Iran, so bombs can fall on her head. 

As The Guardian reports, the ever-dangerous Kashanian “often shared Persian recipes on YouTube and was active in her daughter’s schools.” Reporters add that arrests of illegal immigrants who do not have criminal records have increased by 807% since Donald and his heartless pals have taken over.

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32. When ICE catches real murderers and rapists and that type, it’s a win. So good job, at least part of the time! In the case of Edvin Giovanni Ceron-Reyes, 37, an illegal alien and Guatemalan citizen who had previously been convicted of attempted murder, they now have him in custody and are set to deport his ass. 

(Of course, he wasn’t much of a threat at the time, as he was already serving 20 years in prison.)

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33. It would appear that ICE sucks at catching real threats. According to Arthu Sahakyan, “[President] Trump is not trying to do anything bad,” when it comes to undocumented immigrants. No. 

“He wants the best for the country.” 

Meanwhile, ICE has grabbed his wife, Arpineh Masihi, now in her 40s, who came to the U.S. when she was three. Until now, the couple had supported the president, and Arthu says…he still does! 

He’s going to keep flying the Trump flag at their home. He just won’t be able to talk to his wife every evening. 

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34. On the other hand, ICE continues to gobble up high school students, this time putting the cuffs on Alan Junior Pierre. The latest detainee arrived legally from Haiti and has no criminal history, which is more than the President of the United States can say. His father, Dutan, is an American citizen himself, and filed the paperwork necessary for his son to be admitted to this country. 

But, hey, screw that kid.

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35. And screw the 6-year-old with leukemia too. The unnamed child, his sister, age nine, and their Honduran mother entered this country legally last fall and asked for asylum. ICE busted up their dangerous “gang” and they have been in custody since May.

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36. Look. We admit ICE sometimes gets it right. Julio César Chávez Jr., a boxer from Mexico is likely to be deported in the next few days. In fact, Homeland Security realized he should be arrested on June 27; but for some reason, Chávez was allowed to fight Jake Paul the next night. He has a criminal record on both sides of the border – and if he is sent home he will likely face charges for his role with the Sinaloa cartel.

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37. Finally, we need to face the truth: Even Donald Dumpling doesn’t know what he wants ICE to do. On July 3, during a speech in Iowa, Ol’ Dumpling said he wanted to save the farmers – who need all those invading illegal immigrants to help plant and harvest and ship the crops. 

With Homeland Security Fashion Babe Kristi Noem in attendance, Donald assured his Iowan fans: 

If a farmer’s willing to vouch for these people, in some way, Kristi, I think we’re going to have to just say that’s going to be good, right? You know, we’re going to be good with it. Because we don’t want to do it where we take all of the workers off the farms. We want the farms to do great like they’re doing right now.”\

 

In another one of his rambling brag-a-thons, the president kept blabbing, about how he loved farmers for sure. 

We’re working with Kristi and we’re going to do something that we’re going to sort of put the farmers in charge. And if somebody, if a farmer’s been with one of these people that works so hard, they bend over all day. We don’t have too many people who can do that, but they work very hard and they know them very well. And some of the farmers are literally, you know, they cry when they see this happen.

 

In fact, it wasn’t just farmers, Donald wanted to show love, and so he rambled on: 

Farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases where, not year, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously, and we can’t do it. We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too. 

 

So, might a liberal blogger ask? If we can trust farm workers not to cut our throats and hotel workers not to suffocate us with pillows while we sleep, and we need these millions of people to work – what happened to all the invader talk? And, frankly, all that racist talk about illegals eating our pets?