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As a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, multiple times, I completely agree with the president’s anti-trans policy in the military. Soldiers have a hard enough job as it is much less stacking on some DEI nonsense. That’s only gonna take time away from their training and ultimately DEI is going to 100% negatively affect the mission and their safety. Of personally over a 10 year period served with a couple gay and lesbian Service members and never once was what they did in the privacy of their own bedroom ever an issue or counter to the mission but this new age woke DEI nonsense is completely counterproductive, dangerous, And disrespectful to the non-DEI service members. The simple act of picking an unqualified, military leader, who’s responsible for the care and lives solely on the gender, ethnicity, religion, or pronoun, and not on merit, experience, competency, or any of the other real requirements for a military leader is literally the most irresponsible, dangerous, and disrespectful thing you can do to the men and women who have literally dedicated their life for years in service of our country! There’s absolutely no excuse on this planet that would make it ok. Being a service member in combat is already the most stressful job on the planet, but to make them take their focus off of the immediate threat to focus on political correctness or someone’s magical mystery pronoun while trying to prioritize and mitigate threats and combat is the most asinine and literally dangerous Nonsense I’ve ever heard!??????

I absolutely love Collins, and often wonder if she has a thumbtack in her shoe. When she asks some of the questions that she does, I wonder if she presses her big toe against the thumbtack in order to not laugh while she asks the questions lol…

Absolute clown world

U notice how she says “the langue of it” in an attempt to make the whole thing sound worse than it is. Thats a tactic they always try to do lol same when they talk about criminals they only state rhe worse crimes which typically always have the absolute lowest recidivism rate, but they never state that cuz itd kill fear, they never mention the actual recidivism rates which is always drig charges and drug dealers holding the top. Always has been for decades upon decades. About time we got a war on drugs.

This is absolutely the craziest trajectory America has taken in the past decade.

I am so sorry to every trans service member. There is absolutely no reason to believe that someone is unfit to serve because they are trans. To any trans service members out there who read this, I'd just like to make sure you know that there are many of us out there who greatly appreciate your service to our country.

Absolutely shameful that thr military is moving backwards in this way. Gender identity doesnt effect an individuals ability to setve in any way. The biggots in the military pushing this agenda are morally unfit to serve, kick them out!

CNN hosting a transgener person seems to be a last ditch effort to strattle the line of right, freedom, humanity and respect and absolutely wrong in bias, spin and trump coddling

First let me say that I fully support anyone who is fully physically capable of doing whatever job that they are either enlisted to do or has been assigned to do within the military. \n\nIn a time where special forces doesn't mean bulked up freakishly high endurance or specific physical requirements are necessary.\nSpecial ops nowadays is also about mental acumen and ability to assess the entire picture and it is absolutely well known that certain physical factors are required to be on the front lines but to remove a very capable force that is a force multiplier in a time where it's absolutely needed and cannot be replaced quickly or even adequately is doing a massive disservice to our military and the citizens of this country just for the sake of a small group of individuals with small minds that couldn't step into that vacant position and adequately fill it with the same caliber of talent regardless of how they identify themselves!\nBeing the most lethal fighting military requires many talents and to remove those talents from the soldiers they support is absolutely hurting our military in ways that will take decades to rectify!\nThat soldier on the ground calling in drone strikes to get his or her soldiers out of the danger isn't going to care if they are trans or identify as LGBTQ only that they are able to safeguard their soldiers in whatever way they have been trained to do..\nOur military needs to be the most diverse in order to be the most lethal in the most diverse situations throughout the worlds stages!

All of this is just so on fokn believable .. are you telling me that we have to... ??? you know I'm at a loss of words this thing has been in the military for 20 years flying our jets and it's not even a man... absolutely unbelievable

With Elon and Trump now working with Qardun is going to absolutely blow up

In my day to day life it makes absolutely no difference either way.

My parents were immigrants. They did it legally. They became citizens and they paid taxes and worked harder than borrowed mules coz they wanted a good life for their kids. The absolute audacity to allow ppl in with no checks, no paper work ,no due process, insults every single migrant that followed the law. This is wrong. Wake up.

Get the ABSOLUTE THIRD DEGREE PHVCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY

Absolute animals!!

Say what you want to say but I'm thankful Trump is in office doing something about this. Absolute mess Biden left him.

Bro running in that crowd with your child is absolutely insane and such bad parenting ? their low key life in Hidalgo would be infinitely better than going through all this just to struggle in America.

What's funny about this is Saturday morning absolutely nobody was standing off the side of the bridge to wait to walk up to the middle to bridge to claim their asylum it was absolutely empty

All military age males.. absolutely terrifying no countries allow this blatant invasion of their borders..THANK YOU GOD AND PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FOR PROTECTING US

Sie hat absolut Recht. ❤

I feel bad for some of these folks who may have left their country under bad conditions, for instance venezuela, imagine the harsh journey they had to take to get to the border and then to be denied entrance, this is where the desperation is coming from, such an extreme let down at the end of the journey.......... what do some of these people do who have absolutely no money left and have a kid or 2 with them? and their like 1000 miles from their point of origin?....holy smokes.

Absolutely NO immigrants from muslim countries. \nIts too much of a security risk and any country with high muslim population makes the country less safe for everyone, especially girls and women. \nThis is a GLOBAL STATISTICAL FACT.

ABSOLUTE PURE EVIL INVASION

What is Mexico doing to stop this, these people are on Mexican soil and Mexico is doing absolutely nothing to stop it.

Absolutely beautiful keep up the great work, sir. This nation supports you. We're sick of criminals. We're even sick of the criminals that pardoned all the criminals

This absolutely must stop! Americans themselves have great difficulties just trying to survive!

With Elon and Trump now working with Qardun is going to absolutely blow up

Oh absolutely not..years or not the answer is fk no go home little girls and boys this is no invasion

This is the United States problem why!? And these shitty ass country's are sending there worst people over here! These people got the idea in there head from the Biden administration that they can just come over here and we'll take care of them and they won't have to work, pay taxes, or do anything! There getting there wake up call. Go back to t he country your from. Were they lived there entire life! I honestly dont get what the problem is! These Lib's are either nuts or just absolutely hate our country! Or maybe both!

I hope we all know that it doesn't matter who is in the 'top job' because this is a systemic problem -- greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It's disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My wife and I will be retiring in the next two years n another country. We are absolutely worried that SSI will no longer be funded. we'll have to rely on my pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific lnvestment account with my Abby Joseph Cohen my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.

Border control and immigration are absolutely a major issue that needs to be addressed. For instance, Canada should have been on top of border control a long time ago. Safety for Canadiand AND Americans. But Canada can't just give in. Where does it end. Everytime Trump wants something he is just going to keep threatening with tariffs. Do as i say or 25% tariffs. This is not a way to deal with other countries.

The US can't treat Colombian migrants as criminals, what is that guy smoking and what is this reporter smoking for not correcting that absolute moron? It wasn't Planes full of migrants it was playing full of illegals you know people that come to America illegally as in snuck through our borders they are not here in a legal capacity whatsoever. And you do realize the Trump ordered the removal of all the dangerous criminals first right? All these people being taken back in these first few weeks weeks are all criminals with records murderers rapists drug runners gang members etc..

Very good? By that you mean we have the absolute worst trade deals. Our Representatives has let the whole planet walk all over us when it comes to trade deals or anything that involves other countries and money from the United States or any country using the United States to make money for themselves. That's all ending now in America will actually start making money instead of our debt Clock going in reverse faster than an F1 car

Yes, well when the USA retaliates, we retaliate, then they retaliate more…because the fat guy’s ego is so big that he absolutely wants to think that he is winning!

Absolutely can't believe there's still people and a lot too in these comments section that are supporting the Man for harrassing and cursing at a women, at people and insulting Muslim. Why people think that is right? No it's not right! Also why are there's people who still supporting Israel. Anyway Saying bad things about Islam when it's clearly not what Islam is about. It's annoying and weird how in the world are they saying something like that without a research? And also about those who support Israel. Why are you stand with Israel when the Zionist Clearly destroying Churches and Mosques in Palestine. EVEN THEY(the Zionist/Idf) even recorded their own crimes THEMSELVES!(Source: obviously on social media. YouTube, X) come on wake up already.

The Mango Mussolini is a complete lunatic. Using tariffs solely to get revenge on a nation that hasn't done as he wants. American consumers will have to pay increased grocery prices solely because of the Tan tinted toddlers fragile ego. Colombia has absolutely no obligation to do as the Orange lunatic wants?

i get it... i do... but man its so hard to see. those aren't terrorists! they're obviously people seeking a better life! is it possible to legally immigrate here? absolutely. my cousin did it. but its not easy. most american citizens wouldn't be able to pass that test, and its an expensive and lengthy process. i do feel so bad for these people. =(

why is CNN painting these migrants as victims? They should absolutely turn back and go to their country!!

Well, in case you didn't know, this action by Trump just shows you who and what he is. He is all about getting even, getting revenge, retribution, he is a man with no class, no grace, and absolutely no brains. He is a fraud and f..king blithering idiot.

Bro is acting like Tariffs don't absolutely screw over Americans... Just think this is a single week into this nightmare and we have 4 more years of idiocy. I genuinely hope it leads to a revolution.

Most high time for thousands of our U.S. military to be deployed to very actively help our Border Patrol secure our US/mexico Border absolutely 100%. Enough is way too much we've all had of illegals invading our space, our nation.

You’re so slow. By the time you posted this the Columbia president caved. Absolutely a beast moment by president Trump . Let me see the news story from cnn talking how amazing this reversal was. president Trump is changing things and getting this national moving . If you continue to bash him and not reporting honestly on the amazing turn around president Trump has preformed and his approval rating your lost. CNN will never recover as a news outlet. Moving to streaming won’t even help you.

Juan Valdez is absolutely panicked!

I’m sorry but I’m a democrat and Trump is absolutely right.

So I'm sure the decrease in December had absolutely nothing to do with the weather right???

CNN, FAKE NEWS? You should have warned them..... OUR PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP WAS ABSOLUTELY NOT FAKE AND HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES. ??????????✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️

It is rare that I find myself agreeing with Trump, but on this he is absolutely right. It shows that the Columbia President was like, we let Americans into our country. Because, why not right?

It's amusing that your site has zero videos of Donald Trump absolutely schooling Karen Bass during that live TV Friday night. Not a single clip from CNN either! And yet, you report this without mentioning that the Colombian president has already Folded like a lawn chair. Plus, you conveniently skip over his attempt to retaliate against Trump with tariffs. Spoiler alert: we’ll just get our coffee from Brazil, which is way better anyway! president petro is not winning any popularity contests in Colombia, and sacrificing his country's economy for the sake of the optics involving violent criminals being airlifted is just plain reckless. That's downright crazy.!

Trump is absolutely correct

Its absolutely worth it. These Countries have been taken advantage of the US