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Donald Trump isn’t just King again. He’s the warden, the judge, the jury - and let’s be honest, the guy smuggling contraband into the prison yard. Welcome to the United States of Retribution, circa 2025, where dissent is a sin, protest is a crime, and the Constitution is being used as a brunch napkin at Mar-a-Lago.

Let’s call this what it is: America’s Devil’s Island. And no, that’s not just a metaphor - it’s a literal blueprint, a tactical doctrine, a psycho-political manifesto dressed all up as policy. Trump isn’t imagining a strongman state. He’s constructing one - brick by brick, bill by bill, Executive Order by batshit Executive Order. Trump’s Fantasy Island: Locking Democracy Away Forever.

Reopen Alcatraz? Coincidental? Merely interesting? Or, as diabolical and sinister as it appears?

Welcome to Trump’s Devil’s Island: Now Featuring International Exile - One Deportation at a Time - Sponsored by MAGA, Powered by Revenge."

Congratulations, America. We’ve officially reached the “Outsource Your Civil Rights” stage of authoritarianism.

In the latest installment of Trump’s Devil’s Island: The Reality Show No One Can Escape, we meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal U.S. resident - emphasis on legal - who found himself deported to El Salvador against a unanimous Supreme Court ruling. Let that sink in. Even Sam Alito agreed it was unconstitutional, and this man thinks “Handmaid’s Tale” is a good time.

So what happened? The Trump administration - always allergic to law and accountability - simply ignored the ruling. Because why follow the Constitution when you can cosplay as a dictator on Day 110 of your second coming?

Instead of being returned home to Maryland, Kilmar is now rotting in a Salvadoran prison, where he’s been labeled a “terrorist” without a charge, trial, or even the courtesy of a kangaroo court. This isn’t extradition. This isn’t deportation. This is political exile, MAGA-style - and it’s happening under the stars and stripes.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, a man who still seems to believe laws matter (adorable, really), flew to El Salvador to beg for basic due process. His statement? Blunt: “Yes, we are in a constitutional crisis.” No kidding, Chris. The only thing missing is the official Trump Seal of Tyranny, complete with golden handcuffs and a red hat that reads “Gulag ’Em All.”

And what does El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele say? Well, he’s refusing to return Kilmar, offering MAGA America a friendly little demo of how international strongman solidarity works: scratch my autocrat, and I’ll scratch yours.

Let’s review: Supreme Court says return him. Trump’s DOJ says nah.

A U.S. Senator flies across borders to undo a dictatorship-in-training’s homework. And the rest of us? We’re watching due process sink faster than Melania’s smile on Election Night.

This isn’t just about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is a test run. A political dress rehearsal for a future where court orders are optional, human rights are transactional, and citizenship is just a temporary condition - contingent on how loudly you clap for the King.

Trump’s Devil’s Island isn’t metaphor anymore. It’s policy. It’s precedent. And if you think it stops at Kilmar, you haven’t been paying attention - or you’ve already packed for exile.

The Warden-in-Chief has been on a rampage, damn near gone berserk.

 Deporting U.S. citizens - yes, actual Americans - to El Salvadoran prisons, because apparently Gitmo wasn’t exotic enough.

 Freezing $2.3 billion in Harvard’s federal funds because they wouldn’t cave to demands to scrap diversity and kiss the MAGA…. ring.

 Strong-arming law firms that dared oppose him, threatening investigations unless they scrubbed their diversity programs and got in line.

 Lifting water flow restrictions on shower heads because, in his America, if the Earth can’t breathe, at least his hair can.“No longer will shower heads be weak and worthless!” “I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair, because my hair - I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.” This is the narcissistic nutjob we’re dealing with. Talk about “priorities…”

 Restoring Confederate monuments and whitewashing textbooks to honor history’s “great men” - code for slaveholders, seditionists, and racist icons.

 Mandating 10% tariffs across the board, except for China, it’s 200%, for Russia 0% (Something is rotten at Mar-A-Lago) while reviving primitive coal plants like it’s 1890 again, polluting the planet and your portfolio at the same damn time.

 Openly fantasizing about deploying the Insurrection Act to unleash the military on civilians, as if we’re all starring in his fascist fan fiction.

And this is just the last few weeks.

Trump promised he’d be a dictator on Day One, and shocker - he wasn’t lying. He’s not hiding the plan. He’s bragging about it. He wants vengeance, retribution, domination. And he wants his enemies - read: journalists, immigrants, professors, Black voters, trans kids, union leaders - to pay. Not metaphorically. Literally.

This 78 year-old man-cub is hand crafting his 21st century version of Devil’s Island, and roughly half of America is helping pour the concrete. The other half? Well, most of us are still holding out hope the courts will save us. How trifilin’. Never mind that Trump’s handpicked in-justices have already given him de facto immunity even for insurrection. That’s not democracy. That’s a theatrical production of “King Lear.”

Is mainstream America, all the ethnic nations, identity groups, cultural cohorts, whatever we are who populate this nutfarm, so very comfortable, or are we so undereducated, to put it politely, that we are basically silent?

Yep, it’s so quiet, so, so quiet, you can hear America tiptoeing away from democracy.

The Insurrection Act is no longer just a relic of legal trivia - it’s part of the 2025 playbook. Project 2025, to be exact. A Heritage Foundation (well dressed klansmen) fever dream where civil servants get loyalty tested, federal agencies get gutted, and authoritarianism gets a glow-up with gold trim.

This is no longer a drill. This is no longer a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill.

This is the “main event” of Trump’s 11 ring circus. The gulag is going digital. The military is being positioned for domestic deployment. Think Tulsa, Rosewood. And MAGA media - Fox, Newsmax, X - are the propaganda arm, feeding the good ol’ boy base red meat and white fear 24/7, 365/52, endlessly.

Book bans. History whitewashing. Professors fired. Protests criminalized. Journalists doxxed. And yet the country still whispers, “Do you really think he has gone too far?”

And now: Reopen Alcatraz? Coincidental? Really?

Too far? He’s drag-racing down Interstate 666 with the devil riding shotgun. Call it the Hell Express, the 636 to Lucifer’s Orange Lake of Fire.

This is about control. Punitive, obsessive, Gorgeous George meets Orwell-meets-Kardashian-style stranglehold control. And Trump’s not doing it alone - he’s got a whole Republican mall parking lot carnival backing him. JD Vance openly blames Black leaders for America’s decline. Elon Musk pedals racist conspiracy, and throws up the Nazi salute, while Republican legislatures are turning states into diabolical laboratories of fascist lawmaking.

So again, we must ask: What’s the damn breaking point?

Is it not enough that Trump wants mass deportation camps for millions? That he’s tactically yet randomly firing civil servants, destroyng the long held pillars of the Black middle class and replacing them with handpicked MAGA cultists? That he’s musing about rounding-up protestors like cattle, shipping Americans off to some island off the coast of El Salvador?

Or is it that the boot hasn’t pressed hard enough on your neck yet?

Because it’s already stomping on someone else’s - on Black bodies in Florida classrooms, on immigrant children at the border, on LGBTQ youth silenced into hiding, on women in red states who now need a passport to get an abortion.

And still, the resistance is fragmented. Unions? Mostly quiet. Civil rights groups? Sporadic. Everyday citizens? Numb, scrolling TikTok. The fire’s been lit, but folks are arguing over whether it smells like smoke or Sandalwood incense.

Burney and Carvo are sending smoke signals, look up, keep your heads to the sky. This is no longer about elections. It’s about survival. Democracy isn’t eroding; it’s being excavated, and Trump is swinging the pickaxe. The courts are complicit. The Congress is cowardly. The media is still stuck in 2016, wondering if calling him a “liar” is too mean.

The only real weapon left is disruption. Mass disruption. General Strike, work stoppage, hit these elitist SOBs in the only spot it hurts, their wallets and purses. Like I keep saying, they don’t have hearts, they have cash registers and value meters.

Worker bees and ants strike. Flood the streets. Lock down land/air and sea ports. Halt deliveries. Park the trucks. Shut it all the hell down.

Not for a hashtag. Not for a weekend. For real. Because if we don’t stop him now, the night trains to Devil’s Island will be running on time. The cells will be reserved. The guards are already hired. The sentence? Indefinite.

This isn’t politics. This is punishment. Trump doesn’t want to govern. He wants to rule. Inflict pain. Cruelty is his calling card.

So, America - what’s it gonna be? Righteous Resistance or weak, meak compliance? Because the time for “hoping” he doesn’t go too far, baby, that’s come n’ gone.

He already has. And if we’re still waiting, then maybe Devil’s Island isn’t his fantasy. Maybe it’s our reality.





BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi

Cortez, who also writes for

BlackAthlete.com & NegusWhoRead.com,

was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa

1961, at the dawning of the age of

Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic

individuals, Raised in South-Central LA,

the 213. At age 14 transplanted to the

base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-

Hi. Sat at the foot of scholars for many,

many moons, emerging with a desire and

direction… if not a sheep-skin.

Meandered thru life; gone a-lot places,

done a-lot of things, raised a man-cub

into an officer n' gentleman, a "man's

man." Produced a beautiful baby-girl

with my lover/woman/soul-mate… aired

my "little" mind on the airwaves and

wrote some stuff along the way.

Wordsmith behind America's Ten Months

Pregnant . . . Ready To Blow!: Even

Trump Can't "Make America White

Again." A New, More Inclusive, Diverse

21st Century America - Love It . . . Or

Get The Hell Out!. Contact Mr. Cortez

and BC.