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Trump admin. allegedly mulling travel ban impacting more than 40 countries – report

March 18, 2025 | | Print Article

The Trump administration is reportedly mulling new travel restrictions on more than 40 countries, a move that while keeping potential terrorists out, would infuriate Democrats.

The alleged travel ban was reported by Reuters and the New York Times, both of which have been serial purveyors of fake news about Trump since his first term. In its reporting on the 43 countries that would be impacted, the Times cites the now customary anonymous sources in unnamed “officials familiar with the matter.”

Reuters also cites unnamed “sources familiar with the matter” and reports that it has seen an “internal memo” on the ban, although it adds the caveat that “there could be changes on the list and that it was yet to be approved by the administration.”

According to the Times, “a draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a ‘red’ list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States.”

The “red list” is said to include notorious terrorist hotbeds Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Also Bhutan, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, according to the nameless “officials” who are the basis for the paper’s report, if they even exist.

“The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations, cautioned that the list had been developed by the State Department several weeks ago and that changes were likely by the time it reached the White House,” the New York Times noted.

Fox News Digital, a much more reliable outlet, reported that “no decisions have been made” on the alleged ban and that it “was not able to independently confirm details of the proposed program.”

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said that there is no such list but that there is an ongoing review.

“Well, first of all, there is no list,” she said. “What people are looking at over these last several days is not a list that exists here that is being acted on. There is a review, as we know through the president’s executive order, for us to look at the nature of what’s gonna help keep America safer when dealing with the issue of visas and who’s allowed into the country,” Bruce said during a Monday State Department briefing.

“But what has been touted as something as an item through the State Department just simply isn’t the case,” she added.

Leftist hysteria is already percolating over the rumors of the list.

“Today’s the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, all too timely and relevant in our current moment. With the threat of diminished civil liberties and a so-called Muslim travel ban allegedly in the works, New Yorkers must stay united and refuse to engage in hate and bigotry,” New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams said in a post to X.

In 2017 after the first time he was elected, Trump sought to implement “extreme vetting” for countries with a history of terrorist activity. It was falsely portrayed by the media at the time as being a “Muslim ban” even though the majority of the world’s predominantly Islamic countries weren’t included.

“There are over 40 different countries worldwide that are majority Muslim that are not affected by this order,” the president said at the time.

In an executive order signed after he took office, Trump said “It is the policy of the United States to protect its 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.”

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