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Trump-shaped ecstasy pills can be fatal, Dutch drug institute warns

Trump-shaped ecstasy pills can be fatal, Dutch drug institute warns

The tablets are shaped like the U.S. commander-in-chief’s head, researchers say.

August 29, 2026 1:31 pm CET

By Sam Clark

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-shaped-ecstasy-pills-can-be-fatal-dutch-drug-institute-warns/

An ecstasy pill shaped like the head of U.S. President Donald Trump is potentially lethal and should not be taken “under any circumstances,” a Dutch drug institute has warned.

The pills come in different colors, are shaped like the commander-in-chief’s head and are stamped with the words “Trump” and “NL,” according to a red alert issued by the Trimbos Institute, a drug and addiction research center based in Utrecht, on Friday.

It's currently not possible to know how many of the pills are in circulation, but "multiple" drug-testing locations have received them, Anniek Groothuis, a spokesperson for the institute, told POLITICO. Testers have previously encountered pills shaped like Superman logos or featuring car brands, Groothuis said.

The institute warned that the pills contain a very high amount of a substance called para-methoxymethamphetamine, or PMMA.

Though closely resembling MDMA — the active ingredient in ecstasy pills, which are used by some clubbers and fueled the rave scene in the 1980s and 1990s — PMMA is much more dangerous, the institute warned.

Hours after taking PMMA, symptoms such as nausea, increased heart rate, convulsions and an extremely elevated body temperature can “suddenly occur,” it said. Taking the pill can lead to “overheating with potentially fatal consequences,” though a spokesperson told the Associated Press that there have been no reported cases of death or serious illness among possible users so far.

Trump himself is famously teetotal, and described cocaine as "down and dirty" in an interview with podcaster Theo Von before the 2024 election. The White House recently launched a drug control strategy.

Government backtracks on migrant minors: impossible agreement with the autonomous regions

The Spanish central government has altered its strategy to manage unaccompanied migrant minors, bypassing mandatory regional relocation after hitting a political wall with several autonomous regions. Following the late-July crisis where roughly 72,000 migrants crossed into the African enclave of Ceuta, the central administration initially pushed for mandatory redistribution across Spain's territories. However, resistance from right-wing regional authorities prompted the central executive to explore alternative avenues.

A Change in Strategy

Instead of enforcing a unified distribution mandate on reluctant autonomous communities, the Ministry for Youth and Children announced a revised relief plan for Ceuta:

Urgent Humanitarian Transfers: The central government is organizing the immediate relocation of 500 vulnerable migrant girls and younger children to mainland facilities willing to accept them.
Voluntary Family Placement: The government is leveraging an alternative framework by actively placing minors directly into volunteer foster homes across the country, a system that effectively circumvents regional government blockades.
Prioritizing Repatriation: In parallel, the government established a "single command" in Ceuta to accelerate the screening and orderly return of migrants—both adults and minors—back to Morocco on a case-by-case basis, in alignment with European directives.

Financial Compromise Reached

While a structural consensus on the forced relocation of children remains impossible, a partial agreement was achieved on financial support. On August 27, 2026, fourteen autonomous communities approved a package of €25 million in emergency funds dedicated specifically to relieving Ceuta’s overwhelmed local centers. This compromise moved forward despite political walkouts from representatives of the far-right Vox party, who continues to protest any measures facilitating mainland integration

Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK

Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK

Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residency

Edward Helmore

Sat 29 Aug 2026 18.08 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-us-to-uk

Far-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being detained on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order.

Yiannopoulos’s deportation occurred on Friday, said a statement on Saturday from a spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.

The DHS spokesperson’s statement did not say where Yiannopoulos had been deported to. But, citing “two senior US sources”, the UK’s Telegraph newspaper reported that Yiannopoulos had been flown back to Britain.

A DHS spokesperson on Friday said that Yiannopoulos, 41, had been arrested by ICE on Thursday at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans international airport. The spokesperson said Yiannopoulos “legally entered the country” in May 2019 through New York City but then “chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws”.

The spokesperson said that Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on 22 July “after failing to show up for his immigration hearing”.

“He will remain in ICE custody pending removal,” the spokesperson added. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”

Yiannopoulos – who has previously been a vocal supporter of ICE and immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residency – was believed to have been arrested while heading to a concert by rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West.

West performed at New Orleans’s Caesars Superdome on Friday. In 2022, Yiannopoulos worked on West’s short-lived 2024 White House campaign, and his social media account suggests he was working for a company of the rapper.

Yiannopoulos, a former editor of the conservative media outlet Breitbart News, previously served as an intern for the former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. He eventually became locked into a feud with fellow far-right commentator Laura Loomer, a Donald Trump administration ally who claimed on Friday that she had reported Yiannopoulos to ICE over his immigration status.

At the peak of his influence, Yiannopoulos was offered a speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in 2017 after he had been supportive of Trump during his run for his first presidency.

He fell out of favor in conservative circles after the publication of a video in which he condoned sexual relations with boys as young as 13.

Yiannopoulos claimed that his experiences as a victim of teenage sexual abuse gave him license to comment on the subject. He soon resigned as a senior editor at Breitbart.

Yiannopoulos was also banned from Twitter, now called X, in 2016 for directing racist and misogynistic tweets against a Black actor in a Ghostbusters remake. His account was reinstated to the platform in 2022 after it was acquired and renamed by multibillionaire Elon Musk.

A little more than a year before his detention by ICE, a social media post from Yiannopoulos called on immigration checkpoints to be set up at California “supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersection and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally”.

He had also sarcastically asked whether it was impolite for one “to masturbate” in public rather than in private “if you are going about your business and find yourself observing an ICE raid” amid the mass deportation campaign that Trump has pursued throughout his second presidency.