US President Donald Trump
sees opportunity in every development to sell his government's decisions it
seems. And the opportunity for him this time came after an attack on London
Tube, the city's urban transit system which the London Police is treating as terror
attack. The fifth terror attack on London this year was carried out by a homemade
bomb that left some travellers with facial burns.
Trump, though denounced the
terror attack and the attackers, made his intentions clear when he went on
defaming the London Police for being inactive and made a pitch for his
government's controversial travel ban plan that puts restrictions on migrants
and refugees from some Muslim majority nations.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Another attack in London by a
loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of
Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!
4:12 PM - 15 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908642277987356673
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Loser terrorists must be
dealt with in a much tougher manner. The internet is their main recruitment
tool which we must cut off & use better!
4:18 PM - 15 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908643633901039617
Trump's reaction on the latest
terror strike on London came in a series of tweets where he termed terrorists as
losers and emphasised on the need to cut off and better regulate internet,
their main recruitment tool.
Then he went on to make his
sales pitch. Making a case for his travel ban plan, that is going to expire in
October, Trump said that "the travel ban into the United States should be
far larger, tougher and more specific - but stupidly, that would not be
politically correct!"
His government's travel ban
plan has always been controversial, right from its first introduction in
January. Following ban by various federal courts, the Trump administration was
forced to dilute it but even the diluted version was rejected. The travel ban
plan that targeted people from six Muslim majority nations for 90 days, i.e.,
Syria, Libya, Sudan, Iran, Yemen and Somalia and all refugees for 120 days, was
finally given a go ahead by the US Supreme Court on June 26.
That means Trump's travel ban
on the people of these six Muslim nations is set to expire on September 23 and
his refugee ban on October 23. The next Supreme Court hearing, which will
deliberate on the legality of the travel ban plan, is set for October 10.
And if Trump's words are any
indication, his administration may be planning to pitch for continuation of
travel ban and its next version may be even tougher, free of the concerns of
being politically correct.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The travel ban into the
United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly,
that would not be politically correct!
4:24 PM - 15 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908645126146265090
After the London Bridge terror
attack on June 3 that had left seven dead and dozens injured, Trump, while
slamming, the re-drafted version of his administration’s travel ban order as an
attempt to be “politically correct”, had commented that “the US Justice
Department should have stayed with the original travel ban, not the watered
down, politically correct version they submitted to the US Supreme Court and
the Justice Department should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down
travel ban before the Supreme Court – and seek much tougher version.”
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Justice Dept. should ask
for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme
Court - & seek much tougher version!
4:07 PM - 5 Jun 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871677472202477568
Comparing his government's
track record against the ISIS with his predecessor Barack Obama's government,
Trump says that "they have made more progress in the last nine months
against the ISIS than the Obama Administration had made in eight years" and
goes on to add that "the US must be proactive and nasty" in dealing
with terrorists.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
We have made more progress in
the last nine months against ISIS than the Obama Administration has made in 8
years.Must be proactive & nasty!
4:30 PM - 15 Sep 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908646582807089152
Trump would certainly by buoyed
by the September 12 decision of the US Supreme Court in favour of his
government's travel ban plan where the apex court blocked a federal court's
decision to allow some 24,000 refugees with a resettlement agency contract who,
otherwise, would have been allowed into the United States in October.
©SantoshChaubey
