Aloha, indeed! What do people in Germany think of the US when they read about what happened to these young German women? By Hal M. Brown

Does Trump care? Do you even have to ask?

The article in this German publication’s title translates to “Women in Rostock end up in Trump’s deportation net in the USA: “We feel so powerless.” (I added to the screengrab of the article for my illustration.)

An article published in Beat of Hawaii on April 10th describes that what happened to these women: Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported.

It took 10 days, but this story finally made it into our national news yesterday. For example, in USA Today: German teens detained and deported in Hawaii over missing hotel reservation and Newsweek, German Tourists Deported From US for Not Booking Hotel.

Does Trump care what people in Germany think about what happened to these women? Do you even need to ask? Does Trump care what people in the Hawaiian tourism industry think about this? Do you even have to ask?

Search just their names on Google and this is what you will see:

This is what people in India are reading: Handcuffed, strip-searched, deported: Shocking reason 2 young female travellers' Hawaii trip turned into worst nightmare. The headline writer in India certainly knew how to use clickbait. The same holds for the headline writer in the UK Telegraph: Teenagers ‘arrested and strip searched in Hawaii over badly planned holiday’.

They are young, they are pretty, and they didn’t have a chance to get a nice Hawaiian tan on their white skin. That’s probably the only thing that might bother Trump. It is impossible credibly to paint them as terrorists.

Psst… don’t tell Trump and MAGA that the only true terrorists in the United States also have white skin. They look like the guy in this article:

However, they are German, and Germany is part of the European Union, and also part of NATO, and is one of the primary countries helping Ukraine fight Russia, so then Trump may just see them as inconveniently having attractive white faces.

He’d rather they looked like the PhD student, originally from Turkey, who was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents:

A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away

She’s wasn’t a terrorist, but there’s no doubt that she was terrorized.

Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveillance video shows.

The 30-year-old shrieked in fear when an officer in a hooded sweatshirt and hat grabbed her by the wrists as another pulled out a concealed badge on a lanyard and confiscated her cell phone.

Soon afterward, the swarm of officers who had surrounded her on the sidewalk pulled cloth coverings over their mouths and noses, some of them wearing sunglasses.

“We’re the police,” the officers said.

“Yeah, you don’t look like it. Why are you hiding your faces?” a person not seen in the video can be heard responding.

The masked officers handcuffed Ozturk and held onto each of her arms, the video shows.

One minute after the encounter began, Ozturk was led into an SUV and driven away.

For Trump, and many of those working for him, the cruelty is the point. As I wrote in this previous Substack, they are sadists who fit into the Dark Tetrad..

Recommended reading: The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power

Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Dolchstosslegende,’ also known as the ‘stabbed-in-the-back’ lie

Read my previous Substacks here.