#ElSalvador's Vice President effectively acknowledges that the #Trump admin's claim that the United States doesn’t have the power to retrieve the people it sent there is a #lie.

“we don't see this as an issue of international law or international conflict insofar as what we're doing is providing a service. The status of the detainees or the people who come here isn't assessed by El Salvador; it's assessed by the state that requests the service.”

While #Trump insisted he did not know about the image of himself as #pope, it was posted by the White House on X & by HIS OWN Truth Social account, which has shared several apparently AI-generated images.

Asked by reporters last week who he would like to be pope, Trump first made the joke that he was his own “No. 1” choice. He then referred to Cardinal Dolan as “a very good” option. (Dolan is not a likely candidate.)

Umm. There’s proof he did just that. ↑

#Trump said he had “nothing to do with” an image depicting him as the #pope that was posted by his & the White House social media accounts, drawing criticism from #Catholics around the globe. Trump, who previously told reporters that he was his own “No. 1” choice to be the next pope, insisted on Monday, “The Catholics loved it.”

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #heresy #idolatry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/trump-pope-photo-ai.html?smid=url-share

…Asked if people should be able to criticize him without fear of reprisal, #Trump responded, “Absolutely. Yeah, I do. That I do.”

“It’s a part of #democracy. It is. You’re always going to have #dissent. There’s nothing you’re going to do about that. Am I going to get 100% unified? It would be a strange place. I can’t even imagine it.”

[tell that to the judges, press, universities, law firms, international students & individuals who you are actively targeting!]

But when asked about #military force #Trump said “it’s highly unlikely” but said “I don’t rule it out” in reference to #Greenland.

“I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything. No, not there,” he said. “We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a very small amount of people, which we'll *take care of*, & we'll cherish them, & *all of that*. But we need that for international security.”

“When you say strollers are going up, what kind of a thing? I’m saying that gasoline is going down. Gasoline is thousands of times more important than a stroller,” #Trump said in the NBC interview.

[2 days ago he said #gas was $1.88/gal. He is way off. As of this minute the avg #price of #gasoline in the United States is $3.17. If you live in California it’s $4.78, Illinois $3.38, New York $3.10, the lowest price is Mississippi at $2.66]

https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/

The comment came as #Trump remained adamant that he wanted to ship undocumented #immigrants out of the country & said it was inconceivable to hear millions of cases in #court, insisting he needed the #power to quickly remove people he claimed were murderers & drug dealers.

“I was elected to get them the hell out of here, & the courts are holding me from doing it,” he said.

But >100 days into his 2nd term, #Trump has seemingly lost interest in #Gaza. A fragile #ceasefire collapsed in early March, & Trump did little to salvage it as the White House shifted the focus of its regional diplomacy toward #Iran. #Israel’s airstrikes & bombardments resumed, killing myriad #civilians. No lucrative real estate deals for Gazan waterfront properties seem in sight.

#geopolitics #MiddleEast #HumanitarianCrisis #Netanyahu #ForeignRelations #BrokenPromises #FactCheck #TrumpLies