El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, where the two men answered questions from the media.
The dominant issue was about a wrongly Maryland man named Kilmar Ábrego García, whose case was recently taken up by the United States Supreme Court, which unanimously ordered the administration to facilitate his return from El Salvador.
Many critics found themselves horrified as both Trump and Bukele said they would do nothing to facilitate García's return despite court orders to do so.
In response to some press conference comments, University of Minnesota Law School Professor Alan Rozenshtein posted on Blue Sky, "Yeah, we're in constitutional crisis territory."
"Listening to Trump, Bukele, Noem.....This is how it sounds in an autocracy," said Edward Luce, U.S. columnist and commentator for the Financial Times.
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"I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect," joked lawyer and Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway, in a reference to the public outcry of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who refused to wear a suit to meet with the Trump White House.
"Bukele saying the US is as overun with criminal gangs as El Salvador was with Trump agreeing and blaming Biden is enough to make me throw a chair at the TV. This whole display is horrific," wrote American political blogger Heather Digby Parton on Blue Sky.
"These, our ancient liberties under attack," said Georgia law school professor Anthony Michael Kreis when responding to Bukele's claim that he was "liberating" Americans by imprisoning immigrants without any due process.
National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss commented that "Hitler couldn’t say it better" in regard to Bukele's remarks.