Posted on 01/30/2017 10:48:03 AM PST by blam
Many of President Donald Trump’s core political supporters had a simple message on Sunday for the fiercest opponents of his immigration ban: Calm down.
The relaxed reaction among the kind of voters who drove Trump’s historic upset victory - working- and middle-class residents of Midwest and the South - provided a striking contrast to the uproar that has gripped major coastal cities, where thousands of protesters flocked to airports where immigrants had been detained.
In the St. Louis suburb of Manchester, Missouri, 72-year-old Jo Ann Tieken characterized the president as bringing reason into an overheated debate.
“Somebody has to stand up, be the grown up and see what we can do better to check on people coming in,” she said. “I’m all for everybody to stop and take a breath … Just give it a chance.”
By executive order on Friday, Trump banned immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – and temporarily halted the entry of refugees.
In the electoral strongholds for Trump, residents seemed nonplussed about the uproar flashing across their television screens. They shrugged off concerns about botched execution, damage to foreign relations and legal challenges across the country.
In New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities, Trump's action set off an outpouring of anger.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, evoked an image of the Statue of Liberty weeping. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York teared up himself on camera as he seethed over the “mean-spirited and un-American” immigration ban.
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Sane Americans and everyone that voted for Trump are still here and supporting his work.
Second it.
We don’t give a damn what Hollywood thinks either... it’s a new world.
The rest of the world can have all those refugees and Islamic infiltrators.
They do not get to decide for us who comes here.
Trump promised it.
We voted for him to do it.
No problem!!
“Trump’s Heartland Voters Shrug Off Global Uproar Over Immigration Ban”
Curses! It’s not working!
At least Reuters calls him “President Donald Trump”
Maybe these bozos will BANKRUPT SOROS...KEEP on protesting you morons it’s all you have left...Thank you MR PRESIDENT!
What reason would people have to visit Iran, aside from seeing some historical religious sites? (Islam, Zoroastrianism, etc.)
“Trump’s Heartland Voters Shrug Off Global Uproar Over Immigration Ban”
Shrugged it off!?!?! WE VOTED FOR IT!!!!!
“Global Uproar”? Try Globalist Uproar.
A good man doing what he promised and why we voted for him.
No surprising the woman from Manchester MO said that....that is where I live (or there abouts) and it is conservative.
Second question (while hooked to a polygraph): Are you lying???
Rural Colorado Trump voter here.
Don’t care about coastal liberals uproar over Trump.
He’s doing a heckuva job!
#SorosWillNotDivideUs
Well indeed, real Americans don’t have the time or energy to protest FOR something. It is just the usual suspects.
Kudos to Reuters for actually reporting this angle. The rest of the media makes it sounds like 99% of the country is outraged.
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