Posted on 01/17/2017 1:10:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Filmmaker Michael Moore said he thinks Donald Trump will “absolutely” ban Muslims from entering the U.S., rejecting those who call for not taking the president-elect literally.
“He’s shown how he’s going to do it. He’s going to get away with it by making it a ban on Muslims who come from the following countries. He needs just enough cover for his crowd to say, ‘Oh, he’s being reasonable there. He’s not banning all Muslims,’” Moore said in an interview with Variety published Tuesday.
Moore said he also expects Trump to follow through on his plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump will officially become president Friday. Entering the Trump era, Moore implored Americans to take Trump “literally,” rather than figuratively, with his campaign promises and rhetoric.
“I’ve taken him literally and seriously since day one,” Moore said. “That’s why I’ve been able to be active and energized since the election. I went through my five stages of grief months and months ago when I realized he was going to win.”
Moore famously predicted over the summer that Trump would win the 2016 election, despite Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton's lead in the polls.
“You do have to take Trump at his word. I still hear people say, ‘Oh, he’s not really going to build the wall,’” Moore said. “Oh, he is going to build it. He knows that he’s got to deliver at least a version of the wall.”
Moore also said he met Trump once in 1998 when they both appeared on a talk show. He said he realized last year that Trump is "not stupid at all."
"People think he’s stupid — he’s not stupid at all," Moore said. "He played me; he got me to not be myself, to not talk any anti-corporate talk. I thought I was going over to relax him. What he was doing was undoing me so I wouldn’t be Michael Moore. This guy is good."
Moore will host a “massive rally” outside of Trump’s New York City International Hotel with actors Alec Baldwin and Mark Ruffalo on Thursday — just a day before Trump’s inauguration.
Title: Let us pray that he does. Getting those stone-age psychopaths out of our country would be a GODSEND for America’s REAL citizens.
“...Not Constitutional or legal authority to do this...”
Yes, he can:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/const-allows-muslim-immigrant-ban/
Exactly zero chance of that.
Not Constitutional or legal authority to do this.
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I believe the President DOES have the Constitutional authority to ban Muslims. Its been done before.
Foreigners do not enjoy the same protections as citizens.
I certainly hope so.
Michael Moore's definition of reasonable differs vastly from mine.
How many immigrants do we need? Are we obligated to accept people continually?
Ban ScuMusilims? I hope Moore is right!!
I’m fur it!
He was right about Trump winning, let’s hope he’s right about this.
Has M.M. visited any of the victims of the religion of peace?
Actually we make it based on nationality like Jimmy Carter did with the Iranians and that will pass muster. The law already exists to do it - Section 215(a) (1) of the Act of June 27, 1952 (8 USC 1185), to prescribe limitations and exceptions on the rules and regulations governing the entry of aliens into the United States.
He says that like it's a bad thing.
Man I hope Micheal is having g a broken clock moment.
I meant to say,
has M.M. visited any of the family of victims of the religion of peace?
I like that idea. Just stop all immigration for a while. Assimilate the ones already here - deport the turds.
And the problem with this is.....?
8 US Code 1182
Carter used it after Iran took our embassy hostage.
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