US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday postponed his trip to Israel amid a controversy over comments about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the United States.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said his comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”, while London Mayor Boris Johnson said they rendered him “unfit to hold the office of the president of the United States”.
“We need someone who can speak the truth”.
During a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, President Barack Obama made a pointed call for tolerance and respect.
A new CBS/New York Times survey out this morning – largely taken before the Muslim ban – shows Trump maintaining a commanding national lead in the GOP primary, and a lot of people scared of a Trump or Clinton administration.
“I think it’s highly unlikely unless they break the pledge to me, because it’s a two-way street”, Trump said.
Fears of terrorism had ebbed since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. “The situation in Israel is particularly volatile, and so I think in this case his decision to reconsider that trip is a good outcome for all those involved”, Earnest told reporters.
Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Right in our own country! Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar of India, which has more than 170 million Muslims, likened the explosive potential of Trump’s comments to “a nuclear bomb”.
More than 230,000 Britons have signed an online petition to ban US Republican presidential front-runner Trump from the country following his proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States.
“How did they slip through?”
Netanyahu said he would be meeting Trump on December 28, just as he agrees to meet any presidential candidate who visits the country, and that the meeting did not amount to an endorsement. On Fox New Wednesday morning, when Cruz was asked about his relationship with the GOP presidential frontrunner by host Bill Hemmer he said he remained “grateful Donald Trump is running”. And they were willing to justify nearly anything Trump says.
“My view is that what Donald Trump said amounts to hate speak”. Almost all of Trump’s rivals criticized his proposal on Monday.
“You have to appeal to the same people [supporting Trump] without appealing to their worst instincts because obviously that’s what Trump is doing”, he said.
Still, travelers from the Middle East represent just over 37 percent of Muslim travelers overall; the region excludes Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, among others, which are also predominantly Muslim. Marco Rubio of Florida and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Renae Hickemeyer, 32, a Republican small-business owner in Grundy County, Iowa, said Trump was reacting out of emotion. “It’s reached a public consciousness where people are talking about it”, he said.
She had earlier started a petition asking Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University to strip Trump of an honorary degree it bestowed on him five years ago. It lends weight to Trump’s argument that their strategy is falling victim to political correctness.
The tycoon told The Press and Journal, a Scottish regional newspaper, that he should be thanked instead of being castigated.
Trump has also received backlash from overseas.
“Additionally, I have made a significant investment in the redevelopment of the iconic Turnberry resort”.
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The tycoon was booed when he stopped short of calling Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel, saying he first wanted to meet Netanyahu.
