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Miles Archer

(19,771 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:16 PM Jun 12

Trump does Muslim ban. Then woos Arab-American voters. Then does another Middle East ban. Wooed Arabs are pissed.

'This is the reward?' Arab MAGA voters enraged by new Trump travel ban

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-travel-ban-2672360383/

Arab-American voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump are outraged that the president signed off on a new travel ban to the United States that includes much of the Middle East, reported ABC News this week.

Countries on the ban list include Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Trump officials describe it as necessary to “protect [our] citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten our national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”

But some Arab activists who threw their lot in with Trump don't see it that way.

"The ban on travel from certain countries that took effect Monday — reminiscent of President Donald Trump's first-term restrictions that became known to many as the 'Muslim ban' — is once again souring relationships among Arab American voters in the key battleground state of Michigan, a group that Trump sought to make inroads with during the 2024 election," said the report.

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Trump does Muslim ban. Then woos Arab-American voters. Then does another Middle East ban. Wooed Arabs are pissed. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 12 OP
Finally. You don't say? Cha Jun 12 #1
Nom, nom, nom, Coventina Jun 12 #2
Face meet leopard sakabatou Jun 12 #3
Fuck everyone of them who voted edhopper Jun 12 #4
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm a f*cking idiot who voted for you to screw over LGBT and others Demovictory9 Jun 12 #5
Is this an odd or even day? Do I need their votes at this moment? Does this crowd love or hate the Arabs? Norrrm Jun 12 #6
With Don the Con, if you aren't in on the grift Hassler Jun 12 #7
They hate gays and women having rights EllieBC Jun 13 #8
The Genocide Joe push paid dividends. Don't forget to thank Palestine supporters for helping to elect Trump. Lancero Jun 13 #9
Suckers. Maru Kitteh Jun 13 #10

edhopper

(36,181 posts)
4. Fuck everyone of them who voted
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:30 PM
Jun 12

for Trump. Hope they lie awake every night stewing in their own regret.

Demovictory9

(36,409 posts)
5. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm a f*cking idiot who voted for you to screw over LGBT and others
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:30 PM
Jun 12

Norrrm

(2,072 posts)
6. Is this an odd or even day? Do I need their votes at this moment? Does this crowd love or hate the Arabs?
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 11:31 PM
Jun 12

Do they have money for me?

There are a lot of factors involved.

EllieBC

(3,484 posts)
8. They hate gays and women having rights
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 12:02 AM
Jun 13

more than they care about anything else.

So fuck them and their “oh noes we were betrayed!”

Lancero

(3,218 posts)
9. The Genocide Joe push paid dividends. Don't forget to thank Palestine supporters for helping to elect Trump.
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 12:06 AM
Jun 13

Sucks that he's not going to do shit to stop that war, but hey... Elections have consequences.

Maru Kitteh

(30,286 posts)
10. Suckers.
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 12:07 AM
Jun 13

Same as all the other suckers that fall for - oh - ANYTHING THAT TRUMP EVER SAYS.

He’s always been a liar, never stopped being a liar, never pretended NOT to be a liar.



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