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Donald Trump Calls for Total Ban on Muslims Entering United States

HeadlineDec 08, 2015

Republican front-runner Donald Trump has called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Donald Trump: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. We have no choice. We have no choice.”

Trump was speaking at a rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina on Monday night. His campaign manager said the proposed ban would apply to both Muslims seeking immigration visas and tourists simply seeking to visit the United States. It came only one day after President Obama spoke in a rare televised address from the Oval Office, calling for the nation to reject Islamophobia in the wake of the San Bernardino shootings, which Obama called an act of terror.

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