It’s the same kind of feeling that Donald Trump rode to become the presumptive Republican nominee in the US, where he campaigns to put “America first” and “make America great again”.
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“He said that running a golf course is just like running a country”. I want people that have bad thoughts out. You have terror countries!
“People want to take their country back and they want to have independence in a sense, and you see it in Europe, all over Europe”, Trump had said. Trump didn’t specify. “They’re pretty well-decided”. “All you have to do is look”. So does the Muslim ban still exist? I am sure that Johnson and Trump would have a lot to share about race relations.
He replied: “It wouldn’t bother me”.
Holding home-made signs reading “Love Trumps hate” and “Stop the hating”, the protesters rushed onto a hill overlooking the Trump International Golf Links clubhouse in northeastern Scotland.
Mr. Mnuchin said Saturday the ban isn’t about religious discrimination.
Trump’s national finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin, who accompanied Trump on his Scotland trip, also suggested Trump’s policy had changed. During one of four stops along the 18-hole course, a reporter asked Trump if his would be OK with a Muslim from Scotland coming into the United States and he said it “wouldn’t bother me”.
His proposal was fiercely criticized from all corners of the political spectrum, but Trump did not deviate from his policy. A CBS poll two days afterward found that while 58 percent rejected a ban of all foreign Muslims, 34 percent of Americans were open to it.
“Crooked Hillary just took a major ad of me playing golf at Turnberry”, Trump said.
And the Brexit fits right in with Trump’s “America first” argument that each country needs to take care of itself first.
And his campaign did not respond to multiple requests asking for clarification on whether Trump still supported banning all foreign Muslims from the U.S. He and his staff clarified his position Saturday, saying Muslims from “terror” countries would be “very strongly” vetted.
Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s national finance chair, told reporters in Scotland that the ban is about terrorism and not religion, according to NBC.
“The genius of what’s happened with the candidacy of Donald Trump is he’s given voice to that, just as was given in the UK”, Corker, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential pick for Trump, said on CNN’s State of the Union programme. But his notions that immigrants are “taking over” and “nobody even knows who they are” captures a widespread discontent that will not be constrained by mere facts.
Trump has cheered the outcome and tried to play down American fears about it.
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Donald Trump capped off his two-day overseas tour in a golf cart Saturday afternoon, zooming around the golf course he built on top of sand dunes.
