Monday, April 14, 2025

Pitching a gulag

In the Oval Office, the president of the United States speaks with the president of El Salvador and pitches the construction of a gulag:

“I want [to do?] the home-grown criminals next. [Then to those assembled.] I said ‘Home-growns are next.’ The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places.”

“Yeah, we got space.”

[General laughter.]

It's not big enough.”
I think that’s J.D. laughing the loudest.

You can hear this exchange at about the 7:18 mark in the Salvadoran president’s livestream. The press wasn’t yet in the room.

comments: 4

Daughter Number Three said...

I believe at one point he included people who damage Teslas as the kind of people to send to the torture prisons... along with men who hit grannies with baseball bats or push people in front of subway trains.

Michael Leddy said...

I recall a promise of twenty-year sentences for those who damage Teslas.

Michael Leddy said...

It's all making it up as you go.

Michael Leddy said...

As they go.