Trump Requiring Foreign Visitors to Submit 5 Years Of Social Media Posts

On December 10th, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump regime published a notice in the Federal Register declaring that visitors from countries including but not limited to United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea to disclose all email addresses used for the preceding ten years, phone numbers, addresses and other personal information from immediate relatives and their social media history for the previous five years.

Per Department of Homeland Security U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA):

“In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.”

According to the Trump regime, this mandate is for the benefit of denying entry to foreigners who may pose a threat to national security or public safety.

Naturally, this policy goes to show how thin-skinned authoritarian leaders like Donald Trump are. In fact, this was already demonstrated earlier this year when border patrol agents denied entry to members of the legendary British punk band U.K. Subs and a French scientist, on account of each party criticizing Trump in the past. In the case of the French scientist, border patrol agents even went through his private correspondence.

Needless to say, none of the rebukes of Trump offered by the members of U.K. Subs or the French scientist directly resulted in any death or destruction, and more importantly, lest anybody forget, the uppermost section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on July 9th, 1868, lest anybody forget, explicitly declares that “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

This means that even if someone is only visiting the United States and is not a citizen, they still enjoy the benefits of the First Amendment, which gives them the right to criticize incompetent government officials like Donald Trump, who has been an international laughingstock at least since his first Presidency.

Under the Fourth Amendment privacy rights they would have the right to tell government officials to mind their own God damn business if there is no probable cause to suspect a crime is afoot.

It's hard to decide which is worse – the fact that this policy is doubtlessly unconstitutional, or the fact that it could precipitate a decline in diplomatic relations overseas as well as the economy.

Let's consider the hypothetical chain of events step by step. If foreign visitors are turned away for the non-crime of justifiably taking Trump to task for being a God damn racist buffoon, they will not spend money in the United States, which means less money circulating through the U.S. economy and a reduced currency exchange rate with other countries.

Inevitably, border patrol will treat them in a shabby manner on top of unconstitutionally prying into their private correspondence, and the travelers will go public with their valid grievances, putting them within earshot of journalists, government officials and anybody else who could have a damn good reason and a perfect opportunity to cause the United States a hell of a lot of grief, to put it mildly, legally and otherwise.

The more this escalates, the worse things may get, especially since victims of ethnic and political persecution are disinclined to forget being wronged in any way, and these rightful grudges have a way of being carried from generation to generation.

It goes without saying that this makes for a dark day when the chickens come home to roost.

Full Notice by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on 12/10/2025: HERE