Customs Border Patrol (CBP) fining someone for taking their in-flight fruit through customs without allowing the option to toss it is emblematic of the stupidity of the Trump regime.
IIRC, SOP is to make several announcements in-flight to not bring unpackaged foodstuffs into the customs area, so there’s that bit of background, even as the offending apple was airline supplied. On a trans-Atlantic flight to NYC, the food service fruit would likely come from the originating country. Someone needs to ask Macron about this at the joint presser with Lord Dampnut, because first-world problems.
Unlike Milo Yiannopoulos whining about his treatment in a NYC bar (truly stupid for a fascist to frequent a bar filled with democratic socialists), we have reached some strange historical place where it’s time to take back the government, if only to reclaim civility.
Because the US is more accepting of Nazi Scum than contraband fruit.
When she landed in New York, and the apple was discovered at customs, “Ms. Tadlock told the border agent that she had just received it from the airline and asked whether she should throw it out or eat it. Instead the agent handed her a $500 fine.” The agent asked her “if my trip to France was expensive and I said, ‘Yeah.’ I didn’t really get why he was asking that question, and then he said ‘It’s about to get a lot more expensive after I charge you $500,’” as Tadlock told news outlet KDVR. The apple was apparently considered “undeclared fruit.”