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Trump wants to restock Guantánamo. Who’s the ‘worst of the worst’ now? - Frankie Boyle
"President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to keep Guantánamo open. He wants to “load it up” with “bad dudes”, just like George W Bush wanted to in 2001. Trump says waterboarding is not tough enough, even though it was tough enough for the Spanish Inquisition.
Of course, who really knows with Trump? When you consider that he looks like the warning label on cocaine and talks like someone trying to recall the last moments of a car crash, few of his pronouncements can be taken at face value. Translating Trump is like trying to work out why a newborn baby is crying. He might well make good on his promise to restock Guantánamo, or we might get lucky and he’ll be too busy building a pyramid."...
"..Of course, Trump has a lot of Americans worried, even if it’s just that the colour on their TV might be broken. In the early days of his presidency, Americans will feel like some country in the middle ages that had a five-year-old king. Many are hoping that at least there’s some White House aide whose job it is to hide Xanax in his food like he was a cat. At Guantánamo, the US government has given us 15 years of injustice, 15 years of catastrophic mistakes – all while trying to convince us that they are holding the worst of the worst. If Trump really does commit to more of this madness, he will have achieved the impossible: being an even worse president than we’d imagined."