Trump’s call Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has drawn an unusually forceful level of rebuke and condemnation from across the party and overseas.
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“As I travel around the world”, he added, “it is clear to me and how both our friends and our adversaries watch and listen to the discourse in the U.S. And I believe that comments such as those that we just heard are not constructive”.
“I think Mr. Trump’s somewhat knee-jerk reaction to this, saying that all Muslims should be banned from coming into America, was perhaps for him a political mistake too far”, Farage told the network.
“I like Donald Trump”, Cruz said. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”.
One reporter asked Earnest in light of Trump’s comments if the president was going to do anything more than call for more tolerance toward Muslims.
Donald Trump’s comments about London are “nonsense”, the city’s mayor said Tuesday, inviting the U.S. Republican presidential hopeful to come and see for himself.
But Trump continued to defend his plan Tuesday, telling ABC News, “Something has to be done” about the risk of terrorism to the United States.
The Republican presidential front-runner has said he’d stick with the party, rather than launching an independent campaign for the presidency, as long as he is treated “fairly” in its nominating contest.
Priebus’s shot at Trump’s proposal comes after months of quiet between the brash billionaire candidate and the GOP since Trump vowed not to run as a third-party candidate and signed a loyalty pledge with Priebus at his side.
Mashable has reached out to every Republican presidential candidate and will update this post with additional information as it becomes available.
“It’s offensive and it’s unconstitutional”, Royce said of the proposal.
Nobody has been more critical of Trump’s anti-Muslim broadsides than the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an advocacy group.
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Over at the Pentagon, Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook said that that any comments that bolster Islamic State’s narrative and pit the USA against Islam are “certainly not only contrary to our values but contrary to our national security”, according to Reuters. However, I think I agree with Eric Posner, who argues that an immigration ban on Muslims probably is constitutional but blocking American Muslims overseas from entering the country would not be.
