Saying things online that the Trump team don’t like may get you deported at the point of entry.
Let’s hope I don’t have to go out for work purposes.
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It could be made to work both ways. What if Europe banned entry to Americans unless they sign an affidavit deploring ***King Trump’s policies 
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I’d hope Europe would not be like that.
I agree. I did put a smiley at the end. Unfortunately that is the only sort of behaviour ***KingTrump understands
It has been the case that US immigration would randomly demand devices be unlocked and submitted to search for many years, and refusing or having “compromising” material on your device could easily get you into hot water. So the current situation probably has not fundamentally changed anything - but it has certainly made it worse.
The way to deal with that is to take a back up then do a factory reset on any personal electronic device that you take in with you. If you don’t want that itself to arouse suspicion make sure you do a bit of innocent browsing and I would certainly set up a “scratch” gmail account and send it a few bland messages (get your friends to as well and join a few cookery sites or other uncontroversial mailing lists - ideally for a good few months before your trip, though dates on emails can be faked).
If you need documents etc store them in the cloud or email them to yourself using your “real” email address.
If you are really worried I would create a couple of fake social media accounts and get the phone apps logged in to those.
When you are through immigration drop all of that and connect with your normal email account.
The truly paranoid (which in the case of US immigration means everyone) will reverse the steps on the way out of the country.
When you get home restore from back up.
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Or a simpler solution is not to go to America. 
I’m glad I don’t have to transit through Miami on the way to and from Turks & Caicos any more. It was always a pain going through US Immigration and it can only get worse under the present regime.
My brother got detained and grilled in a back room for several hours at Miami once - apparently going to the USA on business too frequently is grounds for suspicion with these clowns.
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I used to quite like travelling on an A2 visa, not so much as a question.
Quite.
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So, no-go countries for freedom of speech (and movement) now include US, Hungary and that old favourite, China.
I hear the Isle of Wight is still quite welcoming. 
Although Trump may soon demand it from the UK if someone happens to find deposits of some rare mineral under Lidl’s car park in Shanklin…
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Man, they’re gonna tie me up.
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The blue slipper in Ryde harbour must get its colour from some rare mineral 
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If you wanna get there, you need a Ticket to Ryde…
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In the summer of '74 I issued a great many tickets to Ryde, working as a conductor on the green and cream buses of the Southern Vectis Omnibus Company.
The job was extremely pleasant apart from the dreaded Saturday (change over day) Shanklin to Ryde Pier shift which was an hour shorter than all the others because it was so brutal, full buses, climbing over passengers’ luggage and then departing from Ryde Pier one had a bus full of new arrivals, many of whom didn’t even know which town their hotel was in.
OTOH I have happier memories of other routes along the south coast where there were few bus stops and even fewer passengers and the conductor could sprawl on the upstairs back seat of a vintage open-topped bus reading Henry Miller’s Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch as we rolled along the cliffs above the Channel.
By coincidence read an article on IoW bus tourism in this morning’s Guardian
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But she dont care
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Absolutely. No question. The US is now off limits. I have two friends there that are desolated. One was having trouble sleeping during Trump V1. How he’s getting on now …?
The other is a journalist of decided liberal views. He must find it difficult to get up in the mornings.
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I’m wondering if the company I’m consulting for will be OK through this, and also watching the value of my wages spiral downwards as the dollar goes down the crapper. Went out there for an onsite visit during Covid, but I feel a visit now would be far more hazardous.
Although in the last century(!) I used to love being in the States, if you care about the quality and provenance of what you eat, it’s been a no-no for long before Trump.
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True. In the late '70’s/80’s we used to go to LA/Malibu to shoot pix for the Coke ad albums for Europe. I recall vividly having the exact same dishes at the same restaurant at the same time of day after landing and every time, whatever it was, inc salads, tasted of NOTHING.
I used to stock up my hotel ‘kitchette’ with fruit from a massive Safeway on Sunset. None of it tasted of anything - apples/grapes/pears et al. Completey tasteless.
Ah! But the 'Clams Oregonata’ at Dan Tanna’s was supreme.
Compare that with the same routine when we arrived in Rome, late for lunch, even by Italian timing.
"I’m so sorry my friends. I have only some penne con pommadoro i basilico and roast lamb with rosemary … " 
The hotel we stayed at, ‘Il Rafaele’, was next door to the place where that Italian politician was found dead in the boot of a car.
One time, when we arrived, we asked if all was well. "Not so bad, senores. They only shot down half the ceiling over my desk - no people… "
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When I worked summers in Boston’s North End, if it got too steamy in the graphics studio we’d shut up shop, head for the Union Oyster House sit on stools at the horse-shoe bar and eat plates of cherrystones washed down with draught Michelob, then get a whale watching boat from the Aquarium for the afternoon.
And still the work got done…
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