The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador (2026)

Just three months into his 2025 return to the White House and the launch of a sweeping immigration crackdown, President Donald Trump welcomed a charismatic Latin American leader—one who had famously dubbed himself “the world’s coolest dictator”—for a private meeting. This documentary dives into that pivotal encounter, revealing how El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele opened the gates of his infamous megaprison, CECOT, to receive planeloads of deportees from the U.S., most of them Venezuelan men the Trump administration had rounded up and branded as gang members. But as later investigations uncovered, the vast majority of these individuals had no criminal records in the United States and no proven ties to any gang.