During a town hall on MSNBC Wednesday, Donald Trump indicated that if he implemented a ban on Muslims entering the United States, he would still allow his wealthy Muslim friends to come into the country.
After moderator Chris Matthews asked Trump how a ban on Muslim immigrants would encourage people to fight the Islamic State, Trump said, “I have been called by more Muslims saying what you are doing is a great thing, not a bad thing.”
When pressed by Matthews, Trump added, “I have, actually, believe it or not, I have a lot of friends that are Muslim and they call me. In most cases, they’re very rich Muslims.”
“But do they get into the country?” Matthews then asked.
“Oh, they’ll come in,” Trump responded, later adding that the ban will have exceptions.
In December, the real estate mogul proposed keeping Muslims from entering the country, and quickly began offering exceptions to his ban. He said that foreign leaders and athletes who are Muslim would be allowed to come to the United States.
On Wednesday, Matthews also asked Trump how his proposed ban would help the fight against the Islamic State, arguing that it could deter Muslims from fighting ISIL.
“Anywhere there’s Muslims, you know, they know you don’t want them. So they get the message. They’re little more ill-disposed to fight ISIS, a little bit more after that once they say the Americans don’t even like us, don’t you think?” Matthews asked.
“I don’t know, maybe they’ll be more disposed to fight ISIS,” Trump responded. “Maybe they’ll say, ‘We want to come back into America. We gotta solve this problem.’ I’m serious about that.”
ISIS Leadership: We just love Trump. He is helping our recruitment worldwide and is now welcoming us to USofA. Osama would have been proud.
Osama bin Laden was actually pretty wealthy.
A real-life genius dealmaker might every once in a while acknowledge that deals involve weighing benefits and drawbacks and getting the most favorable mix of them under the circumstances. It seems Trump is really just a promoter, of the cheap hustling carnival-barker ilk, and his only argument is that if you do what he wants, there will only be benefits, with no drawbacks whatsoever.
With a “great brain” and who thought of every issue before anybody else and “put it out there”…whatever.
Let’s see; sun rose in the east this morning, water flows downhill, Trump’s still an offensive idiot - check, check, and check. He’s going to have to do better than this to win today’s news cycle…