Donald Trump canceled a scheduled interview with Katie Couric on Tuesday amid the ongoing controversy over his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a Yahoo News spokesperson confirmed.
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Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has drawn an unusually forceful level of rebuke from across the nation and overseas.
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he completely disagrees with Trump’s stance, describing it as “divisive, unhelpful, and quite simply wrong”. The mayor likened Trump’s statements to anti-Semitic rhetoric heard prior to World War II. “The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of whom are peaceful, who believe in pluralism, freedom, democracy, individual rights”.
This prompted an answer from J.K. Rowling herself.
“This is not conservatism”, House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting in response to Trump’s comments.
“I’m a proud Muslim – but you don’t have to share my faith to share my disgust”, Huma Abedin, the vice chair of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, wrote in an email to Clinton supporters. When pressed for details about who of the almost 90,000 Muslims who immigrate to the United States each year would be banned, Trump’s campaign manager told the Associated Press the ban would apply to “everybody”. Other Republican candidates as well as the neoconservative intellectuals within the GOP have reacted sharply to Mr. Trump’s comment.
Dubai’s retails giant Landmark Group has chose to stop selling Donald Trump-branded products in its Lifestyle outlets. “However my mother wants her gun because she is Muslim and is afraid this Clown the Front Runner of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, is stirring up the crazies who might attempt harm at her or someone in our family because of our religion”.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, another Trump rival, suggested Trump’s comments were helping violent extremists gain strength.
“If I catch somebody here talking about they are going to blow up something… we will duct tape them up and I’ll say ‘here’s one for you, ‘ ” he said.
It was a tense Tuesday morning on December 8, when the co-hosts of Morning Joe on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, tried to speak with presidential hopeful Donald Trump about his recent controversial declaration to ban Muslims from the country.
“Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine”, he said in a earlier statement. “Their language may be more veiled than Trump’s but their ideas are not so different”.
“I’m the worst thing that’s ever happened to ISIS”. It’s not what this country or this party stands for.
During the daily press briefing on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked about Trump’s proposal and whether President Obama would be doing more to combat anti-Muslim sentiments.
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“What he said is disqualifying”, Earnest said. “And any Republican who’s too fearful of the Republican base to admit it has no business serving as president either”.
