Trump Says He Wouldn’t Rule Out A Database, ID System For Muslims

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a news conference before a scheduled campaign rally, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Yahoo! News published Thursday that he’d consider registering Muslims living in the United States in a database or giving them special identification cards.

Trump said earlier this week that the U.S. would have to “strongly consider” shutting down mosques. His comment came after the French interior minister suggested closing radical mosques in France following a string of terror attacks Friday in Paris that left at least 129 people dead.

When Yahoo! News asked Trump if he would advocate for increased surveillance of American Muslims, the real estate mogul said the U.S. would have to do “things that we never did before.” When pressed whether that would include registering Muslims in a database or issuing them special identification that specified their religion, Trump didn’t rule it out.

“We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump said. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. Maybe they could wear some sign or symbol, a crescent moon maybe, sewn onto their clothes. Who could object to that?

  2. Seig Heil Fuehrer Trump!

  3. Watch the other Repub candidates NOT calling him out.

  4. Avatar for mjv135 mjv135 says:

    … and he’s leading the polls.

    I wonder what all the adult Republicans are doing now? The ones who don’t viscerally hate the government and are interested in a functioning democracy? Are they going Dem? Staying home? Why aren’t the moderate Republicans speaking out?

    And no, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, etc are not moderate. I’m talking the Jon Huntsman GOPers?

  5. "I will also not rule out developing a squadron of Attack Gerbils that will crawl up muslim asses and detonate the special blasting caps in their cheek pouches.

    It’s true and very very classy!"

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

71 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for publishermike Avatar for littlegirlblue Avatar for mattinpa Avatar for blue_grit Avatar for mjv135 Avatar for fargo116 Avatar for chammy Avatar for trippin Avatar for commiedearest Avatar for steviedee111 Avatar for inlabsitrust Avatar for mantan Avatar for sniffit Avatar for sherlock1 Avatar for grandpoobah Avatar for marjowil Avatar for jeffrey Avatar for 538liberal Avatar for khaaannn Avatar for occamsrazor2 Avatar for emilianoelmexicano Avatar for vladomatic Avatar for tesla

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: