Australia Is Pretty Much Ignoring Donald Trump's Tweets At This Point
"London Bridge attack: Donald Trump slams Mayor, promotes travel ban on Twitter"
"... we deal with the president, with his cabinet, and with the US administration on what they do, what they achieve... "
Posted on June 5, 2017, at 4:36 p.m.
Mark Di Stefano
BuzzFeed News Political Editor, Australia
Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop has thrown shade at Donald Trump's tweets, suggesting she doesn't place much weight on the US president's posts.
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Trump tweeted six times in the wake of Saturday's London terror attack, including one directed at the London mayor Sadiq Khan, and a retweet of an unconfirmed Drudge Report post.
‘Terrorism Has No Religion:’ Muslims Across The UK Slam London Attackers Imam Abdul Quddus Arif from the local Ahmadiyya Muslim community speaks out against Islamic extremism. “It shouldn’t even have to be said, but this is not Islam,” one Islamic charity group wrote. 06/04/2017 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslims-slam-london-attackers_us_59344b0ce4b075bff0f48fa8 [with embedded video, and comments]
After London Attack, Trump Again the Center of Partisan Media Combat The hosts of “Fox & Friends,” top, lamented a CNN host’s profane comment about President Trump. Nigel Farage, bottom, a Fox News contributor, mentioned the idea of internment camps for Muslims following the London attack. JUNE 4, 2017 A CNN host called President Trump a “man baby [ https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/871152149828218880 ]” and a piece of excrement. (He used a more profane term, and later apologized.) A guest on “Fox & Friends” proposed that Muslims in the United Kingdom be placed in internment camps, prompting an on-air disavowal [ http://deadline.com/2017/06/fox-and-friends-clarification-internment-camps-1202107149/ ] from the hosts. A Breitbart News writer argued on Twitter [ https://twitter.com/k_mcq/status/871138163728809984 ] that “there would be no deadly attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there,” generating angry replies. And Mr. Trump himself, in his first public comment about the attack in London on Saturday night, disseminated unconfirmed information from an unofficial source: The Drudge Report. [...] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/media/london-attack-trump-media-cnn-fox-news.html
New opposition emerges as Trump pushes for travel ban “It’s been four months since I said they needed four months to put that in place,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said of the travel ban. June 4, 2017 As President Trump renewed his push Sunday for a travel ban in the wake of another terrorist attack in England, new opposition emerged from Republican and Democratic lawmakers. Several lawmakers suggested in TV interviews Sunday that Trump’s proposed ban, which blocked immigrants from six majority-Muslim countries but was halted by federal courts, is no longer necessary since the administration has had the time it claimed it needed to develop beefed-up vetting procedures to screen people coming to the United States. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/new-opposition-emerges-as-trump-pushes-for-travel-ban/2017/06/04/5914e7fa-4973-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html [with comments]