# Travelling to Trump's America in August **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320 "2017-02-08T12:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/1 "2017-02-08T12:56:30Z")
I’m visiting the Colonies in August to see the solar eclipse. Having been to not one but two Eevul Muslim countries - Brunei and Indonesia - I’m sure to get asked aside for an advanced proctological examination. So it’s a good thing I’ve yet to buy my tickets. I’ll have to book them to arrive with plenty of time to make a transfer. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/2 "2017-02-08T13:26:19Z")
Eclipse, huh? Yeah, right. I once got asked why I’d been to Tunisia three years before, and I’m a citizen and this was a couple decades before ‘extreme vetting’, so yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/3 "2017-02-08T15:15:53Z")
Is **Quartz** a Muslim terrorist, planning to eat the Sun? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/4 "2017-02-08T15:52:01Z")
You will be expected to [turn over all of your social media account information](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/us-customs-and-border-protection-wants-know-who-you-are-twitter-its-flawed-plan), and passwords to those accounts, when you attempt to enter the USA. Ideally, do not bring your cell phone, tablet or laptop with you at all. Customs has the right to confiscate them at the border and perform a thorough inspection. If you want to take pictures, bring a real camera. You should seriously consider travel insurance just in case you are denied entry. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/5 "2017-02-08T16:50:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Is **Quartz** a Muslim terrorist, planning to eat the Sun? :dubious: Curses! Damn you for revealing my nefarious plot! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/6 "2017-02-08T18:33:16Z")
As long as you’re not a foreigner, have never spoken to a foreigner, and never seen a Meryl Streep movie, I’m sure there’s nothing to be worried about. Just be sure to tell the Customs folks that the Apprentice used to be much better. Ratings are way down. Sad! ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/7 "2017-02-08T21:20:50Z")
Tell them you are coming to pay your respects at the Bowling Green Massacre memorial. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/8 "2017-02-08T21:29:49Z")
Don’t ask about buying guns until, maybe the third day. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/9 "2017-02-09T02:16:05Z")
You’ll be watching the eclipse in a Western state for greater totality, since you’re coming quite the distance, surely? ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/10 "2017-02-09T05:31:23Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m visiting the Colonies in August to see the solar eclipse. Having been to not one but two Eevul Muslim countries - Brunei and Indonesia - I’m sure to get asked aside for an advanced proctological examination. > > So it’s a good thing I’ve yet to buy my tickets. I’ll have to book them to arrive with plenty of time to make a transfer. Foreigners coming to use up American eclipses! Sad! Why can’t these people pay for their own eclipses? Unfair! ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/11 "2017-02-09T08:21:30Z")
Okay seriously, where exactly are you going? Also those two countries aren’t on _the list_, so you’re good. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/12 "2017-02-09T11:12:24Z")
I’ll be seeing the eclipse from near a place called Riverton, Wyoming. [Here](http://www.astro-trails.com/us-national-parks) is my itinerary. I’m probably going to arrive in Bozeman a day or two early and leave Phoenix a day or two late. Afterwards I’m planning on a stay in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/13 "2017-02-09T15:01:11Z")
Wyoming? No problems finding guns for your evil plot against the sun there! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/14 "2017-02-09T15:12:26Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Okay seriously, where exactly are you going? Also those two countries aren’t on _the list_, so you’re good. It could be a much longer list by Summer. Might even include Australia, the way things are going. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/15 "2017-02-09T16:30:35Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’ll be seeing the eclipse from near a place called Riverton, Wyoming. [Here](http://www.astro-trails.com/us-national-parks) is my itinerary. I’m probably going to arrive in Bozeman a day or two early and leave Phoenix a day or two late. Afterwards I’m planning on a stay in Washington. Ah, so it’s furriners like you who snatched up every hotel room in Wyoming that week! I hope you get to Yellowstone before Trump abolishes the National Park system. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/16 "2017-02-09T18:24:52Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Okay seriously, where exactly are you going? Also those two countries aren’t on _the list_, so you’re good. Unless you’re a Muslim mother from Canada, born in Morocco ( which is not on The List), who’s lived in Canada for 20 years, and is travelling with a five year old who’s just finished chemo, trying to cross into Vermont to buy a toy as a post-chemo reward. You’ll be fingerprinted. You’ll be asked personal questions about your religion. You’ll be asked what you think about Donald Trump. You’ll be required to surrender your cell phone and password. Then after four hours, you’ll be turned away because you have videos of Muslim prayers on your phone. You are clearly a threat to the United States and must be denied entry. That’s what travelling to Trump’s America is all about. > **[Canadian woman denied entry to U.S. after Muslim prayers found on her phone |...](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3972400/canadian-woman-denied-entry-to-u-s-after-muslim-prayers-found-on-her-phone-1.3972404)** > > Fadwa Alaoui tried to take her sick son to the United States but was turned back when an official found Muslim prayers on her phone. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/17 "2017-02-09T19:20:59Z")
August is a long way off. A lot can happen between now and then. I’d wait to book my airline tickets, is all I’m sayin’!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/18 "2017-02-09T19:29:45Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > August is a long way off. > > A lot can happen between now and then. I’d wait to book my airline tickets, is all I’m sayin’!😃 ._Looks Back Over The Past Three Weeks_ …Past Performance is no guarantee of future performance. We’re not quite [Sarajevo](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02221/Unis-towers_2221182k.jpg), but with this Whack-Job in charge, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/19 "2017-02-09T20:43:30Z")
I am advising friends and colleagues to avoid any travel to the United States if they can possibly avoid it. The situation at the moment is too uncertain. They may be free to enter now, but that could change in a moment with a stray tweet. Most foreign nationals are safe in the US _at the moment_, but there is simply no confidence that this might not change overnight. There are countries in the world that are just too volatile to travel to, if you can possibly avoid it; North Korea, Somalia, United States, Nigeria, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320/20 "2017-02-09T21:01:06Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’ll be seeing the eclipse from near a place called Riverton, Wyoming. [Here](http://www.astro-trails.com/us-national-parks) is my itinerary. I’m probably going to arrive in Bozeman a day or two early and leave Phoenix a day or two late. Afterwards I’m planning on a stay in Washington. Which Washington? You’ll be driving past me as you approach Salt Lake City (look for signs to Hill Air Force Base); it will likely be over 100F while you’re in our parks but it’s a dry heat. Mind the signs of dehydration, hospitals are expensive here and rescue efforts sometimes have to be reimbursed. I suspect they won’t plan anything for your time in SLC proper, where the hotels are have too many homeless and not enough attraction to make it worthwhile for less then a day, certainly nothing within walking distance. ETA: the OP’s a Trump fan so I doubt he minds any of the current POTUS’s steps so far and the ‘Eevil Muslim’ line may not be tongue-in-cheek. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travelling-to-trumps-america-in-august/779320.md?page=2)