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Donald Trump’s administration decided to add insult to injury on Friday via a social media post that taunted The New York Times, the rule of law and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant it wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison.
Garcia, a 29-year-old father living in Maryland, was deported to a brutal maximum security prison in El Salvador last month despite the Trump administration attributing his removal from the U.S. to an “administrative error.”
Although the Supreme Court has said the White House must facilitate Garcia’s release, the administration has refused to take any action, instead alleging without proof that Garcia is connected to the MS-13 gang and claiming it lacks the power to pressure El Salvador’s government to free him.
The White House doubled down on its lack of interest in following the court’s orders on Friday, sharing the image of a marked-up New York Times front page that crosses out the paper’s reference to Abrego Garcia as a “wrongly deported Maryland man” and brands him with the far more dehumanizing “MS-13 illegal alien” label.
In a jab at Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, the White House added, “Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he’s NOT coming back.”
The White House followed up that post with a link to a Fox News story quoting Attorney General Pam Bondi telling reporters that Garcia won’t be returning to the U.S.
Not surprisingly, many people on social media were shocked that the White House posted such an incendiary post, especially one that basically says “screw you” to a Supreme Court opinion.
2 telling things here:
1) White House crosses out “wrongly,” despite repeatedly acknowledging its error in court.
2) “who’s never coming back” is basically taunting SCOTUS. Signals the opposite of any intent to “facilitate” his return. https://t.co/Pn2ltL8lzX
There is a mistake in the headline.
You didn't wrongly deport Garcia.
You wrongly imprisoned him without due process.
So, fix your mistake, as the courts have ordered.
You don't have to keep doubling down on bad decisions. pic.twitter.com/gsKXvHuFVa
The Trump admin really wants to distract people from the fact that it illegally sent someone to El Salvador in violation of a court order & binding law, either out of malice or sheer incompetence. No amount of shitposting will change that. https://t.co/uEMnSxniXL
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) April 18, 2025You’re digging your feet in on unconstitutional actions. It’s anti-American, and the fact you can’t fix your mistake is insulting to the American people.
Stop lying.
Does a child run the White House page?
You represent the entire county with your childish posts.
He was wrongly deported, as the U.S. gov’t has admitted.
He has never been in MS-13.
In 2019 a judge granted a withholding of removal to El Salvador. So he’s not here illegally.
He will return, as ordered by the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling.
Otherwise, very accurate tweet, White House! https://t.co/pw3ai99ksW
The White House press shop lies and claims Mr. Abrego was not wrongfully deported, despite having acknowledged that fact at every single stage of the court process; at the district court, the circuit court, and the Supreme Court.
They are openly contemptuous of the truth. https://t.co/sg2F0cWcSr
The White House’s shitposting response to a Reagan-appointed judge on the conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals imploring Trump to respect the rule of law: https://t.co/CDCnK9IxLA
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Can’t wait for the Trump administration to be held in contempt. 🍿
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) April 18, 2025The White House admitted in court that they deported the wrong guy, and it's normally sort of weird to see someone publicly taking stances that their own lawyers have dismissed. https://t.co/qVk9MqMFFy
— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) April 18, 2025
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