President Donald Trump on Monday hosted President El Salvador Nayib Bakele, “the coolest dictator in the world” which has been described by himself who has become the main ally in the government’s controversial migrant deportation.
The two men will greet each other in the White House around 11 am for bilateral meetings at the oval office.
There, they are likely to face reporter questions about the use of the famous Mega-Prison Cecot in El Salvador to accommodate migrants issued from the US and ongoing legal disputes about the wrong deportation of a migrant from Maryland, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The Supreme Court has ordered Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia. Trump on Friday said, “If the Supreme Court says bring someone back, I will tell them to do that. I respect the Supreme Court.”
Trump seems to change the statement, in a social media post during the weekend where he suggested the fate of those deported now resting on Bukele.
“Waiting for seeing the President of Bukele, from El Salvador, on Monday! Our nations work closely to eradicate terrorist organizations, and build the future of prosperity. President Bakele has received into the detention of the country of some of the most cruel alien enemies in the world and, in fact, the United States,” Trump said. “These barbarians are now in El Salvador’s custody, a proud and sovereign country, and their future is up to President B and his government.”
President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at the Air Force One, during a flight from Palm Beach to Pangkalan with Andrews, when he returned to the White House in Washington, April 13, 2025.
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The Department of Justice argues in submitting a court that the court “has no authority” to direct how executive branches are involved in foreign relations and argue that the government cannot interfere with El Salvador’s sovereignty. Other trials are set in this case for Tuesday.
Ahead of the Monday meeting, President Trump said he thought Sukele “did a fantastic work” and “Take care of many problems we have that we really will not be able to take care of the cost point of view.”
“We have some very evil people in the prison, people who should never have been allowed to enter our country, people who killed drug dealers, some of the worst people in the world were in the prison and he could do that,” Trump told reporters at Air Force One when he returned to Washington from Florida on Sunday.
When pressed further about the alleged violations of human rights reported in the Cecot, President Trump said, “I did not see it. I did not see that happen.”
Trump’s government has deported hundreds of migrants they suspected as members of the Venezuela Gang to El Salvador, despite doing so with a process that seems a little because of that.
State Secretary Marco Rubio, at a social media post during the weekend, said the effort continued with 10 other people who were accused of being related to MS-13 and the De Aragua trend was deported to El Salvador.
Rubio wrote that the “alliance” between Trump and Bukele “has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.”
President El Salvador Nayib Pukele delivered a speech during the inauguration of the Key Institute, a private education institution that specialized in engineering and science in San Salvador, March 19, 2025.
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Guard Guard Guard Salvador Alleged Members of Venezuelan Gang Trends De Aragua and MS-13 Gang which was recently deported by the US government in Cecot prison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 12, 2025.
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Plus, Trump and several officials have drifted to send US citizens who were convicted of violence to the famous El Salvador prison – something that said legal experts would violate the constitution.
“The president has discussed this idea several times publicly. He also discussed it personally,” Karoline Leavitt’s White House Press Secretary told reporters last week.
“This will be a cruel and cruel criminal who has violated our country’s laws repeatedly. And this is a repeated violator who is hard on the streets of America,” continued Leavitt.
“The president has said if it is valid, true, if there is a legal channel to do that, he is not sure. We are not sure if there is. That is the idea that he only drifted and had discussed, was very open, as in the transparency effort,” he said.