Say what you will about the Trump administration, but two things are crystal clear in 2025: they’re dead serious about cleaning up crime, and they’ve mastered the art of turning social media into a political sledgehammer. This week, both traits were on full display — and the usual suspects on the left didn’t take it well.
The chaos started Sunday in Boulder, Colorado, when a peaceful event in support of Hamas hostages was violently interrupted. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national who had overstayed his visa, launched a hate-fueled, incendiary weapon attack that injured eight innocent people, two seriously. He’s now facing hate crime and attempted murder charges.
But the story didn’t stop with Soliman.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that Soliman’s wife and five children have also been taken into ICE custody. And it’s not just about immigration status — investigators are looking into whether the family knew about, or even helped support, the horrific attack.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack,” Noem posted on X. “If they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.”
A few hours later, the official White House X account added some signature Trump-era bite.
“Six One-Way Tickets for Mohamed’s Wife and Five Kids. Final Boarding Call Coming Soon.”
That post sent left-wing Twitter (sorry, “X”) into a frenzy. Suddenly, the same people who spent years defending illegal immigration were shocked — shocked! — that people who are not only here illegally but potentially complicit in an anti-Semitic terrorist attack might get deported.
Cue the pearl-clutching.
One user warned we were headed toward “Hunger Games” dystopia, another compared it to Stalin’s USSR, and someone even dragged out Fahrenheit 451. (Nothing screams “measured policy analysis” like citing young adult fiction and totalitarian regimes.)
But while liberal commentators wept about “guilt by association,” they conveniently ignored the actual facts — namely, that the entire family may have been residing in the U.S. illegally. That’s not guilt by association. That’s illegal entry, plain and simple. If anything, Soliman’s attack simply bumped their case to the top of the ICE to-do list.
And let’s be honest: if the roles were reversed and the White House was detaining the family of a MAGA supporter for tweets, many of these same critics would be cheering it on. The selective outrage is almost impressive.
Thankfully, not everyone was having a meltdown. Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia kept the sarcasm flowing with a perfectly timed post:
“Keeping families together ”
Yes, sometimes humor is the best medicine — especially when it drives the perpetually offended into another spiral.
Bottom line? The Trump administration isn’t tiptoeing around. When a foreign national overstays a visa and allegedly launches a hate-fueled terror attack, the gloves come off. And if the family was here illegally or helped cover for him, they can book their ride back together.
Final boarding call, indeed.