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Please be the end of Trump after this

Trump defends proposed ban on Muslims into U.S., says 'no choice'

http://news.yahoo.com/trump-defends-proposed-ban-muslims-u-says-no-133617669.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, calling it a temporary measure in a time of war.

Trump likened his proposal to those implemented by former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt against people of Japanese, Germans and Italian descent during World War Two.

Please, please, please this has to be the end of Trump.
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163305 tn?1333668571
Yes, dump Trump !
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Turkish business partner may sever ties with Trump
USA TODAY 12:44 p.m. EST December 11, 2015

Already facing a financial backlash over his call to temporarily ban Muslims from the United States, Donald Trump is now being condemned by his own business partners.

The developers of Trump Towers in Istanbul announced late Thursday that they are exploring their legal options to possibly sever ties with the business mogul and Republican presidential frontrunner. A representative of Aydin Dogan, a Turkish billionaire who pays to use the Trump name on his soaring residential and commercial complex in Istanbul, said the company condemned Trump's "discriminatory remarks," according to Reuters.

"Such statements bear no value and are products of a mind that does not understand Islam, a peace religion, at all," said Bulent Kural, the manager of the complex's shopping mall, said in a statement. "Our reaction has been directly expressed to the Trump family. We are reviewing the legal dimension of our relation with Trump brand."


The general manager of the complex says the company is assessing its partnership with Donald Trump following his calls to ban Muslims from entering the United States.

Turkey is a majority Muslim nation.

The announcement was the latest financial blow to Trump following a statement he released Monday. Trump had called for increased screening of foreigners following terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., but went further than any other presidential candidate.

"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 is going on," the statement read.

The billionaire was bashed by Republicans and Democrats in the U.S., leaders of Muslim and non-Muslim countries and regular people around the world. Now all that backlash is starting to affect his wallet.

A $6 billion golf community under construction in Dubai is removing his name from the project. He was kicked out of a business network in Scotland, where the golf mogul owns several highly-rated courses. And Lifestyle, a retailer that does business in a sweeping marketplace spanning the Middle East, India and Africa, stopped selling Trump-branded products.

The pattern follows a similar backlash against Trump over the summer, when he enraged Hispanics for saying Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.” He drew widespread anger from people in both political parties, and businesses soon followed.

Macy's ended it's decade-long business relationship with Trump and said it would phase out Trump-branded menswear from its stores. NBC and Univision announced they would not air Trump's Miss USA Pageant. And NASCAR announced it would not hold its season-ending awards banquet at the Trump National Doral Miami resort.

Trump maintains a sizeable lead over a crowded Republican field, garnering 35%, according to the latest poll from CBS News and the New York Times. His closest rival in that poll is Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who polled at 16%.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/11/donald-trump-business-troubles-muslim-ban/77149124/
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Trump's "Brand" is taking a hit for sure. Some buildings are now pulling the Trump name off the bill boards.
(no link, CNBC report)
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How Donald Trump's Muslim Comments Are Playing In Muslim Countries

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/08/458929494/how-donald-trump-s-muslim-comments-are-playing-overseas


"Leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" has drawn criticism both at home and abroad.

Trump says the ban would remain in effect "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

Here's a sampling of the international reaction to Trump's remarks, including in countries with large Muslim populations, such as Indonesia, Pakistan and India:

— "At a time when pressure is building on Muslim communities around the world, the Trump edict could not have come at a worse time," Indonesia News says. After listing some of Trump's ongoing business investments in Muslim nations — including plans for a Trump golf club in Dubai, a development in Turkey and a luxury resort in Bali — the news outlet concludes: "The question now is will the Trump Towers, hotels, resorts, apartments and villas across the world be closed to Muslims too? Or should they just be banned from America?"

— Commenting on the Jakarta Post's story about the Trump news, one reader writes, "You've got to respect how this guy keeps on saying stuff he surely doesn't actually believe himself and KNOWS are impossible and unconstitutional to actually do. He drives the concept of campaigning to its extreme ... "

— In Turkey, presidential adviser Ibrahim Kalin tweeted Tuesday, "Mr @realDonaldTrump claims to 'make America great again' by going racist in a country of immigrants?!"

— "This creates a near-perfect toxic soup where extremists on both sides thrive in the shadows, and where the moderates and innocents suffer," writes the editorial board of Dubai's Gulf News. "His extremism is no different than that of Daesh. Zip it, Donald. Just zip it."

— "Although we are not as advanced as the U.S., we have never elected such people to power in Pakistan," human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir tells Reuters, after initially saying, "It's so absurd a statement that I don't even wish to react to it."

— The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups have denounced the comments, with the Times of Israel quoting the American Jewish Committee's Jason Isaacson saying, "You don't need to go back to the Hanukkah story to see the horrific results of religious persecution; religious stereotyping of this sort has been tried often, inevitably with disastrous results."

— Haaretz U.S. editor Chemi Shalev tweets, "ISIS dreams of an Islam-hating America that isolates its own Muslims; Trump is busy making their dreams come true."

— Trump's partner in his Dubai golf venture, Damac Properties, says it will stick with the American — and that their relationship is based on business, not politics. That's according to Abu Dhabi news site The National, which also recalls how Trump's earlier comments on Muslims and ethnic groups prompted UAE billionaire Khalaf Al Habtoor to revoke his support for the Republican, saying, "when strength is partnered with ignorance and deceit, it produces a toxic mix threatening the United States and our world."
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Trump is dangerous. Will this end him? Nope because his fans dont care and think he strong. You know! Like Putin? They obviously know nothing about the country they were born in. They are clueless as to just how dangerous this rhetoric is.
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163305 tn?1333668571
"Trump's insane rhetoric is dangerous and puts all Americans at greater risk"

Agreed !

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Trump's insane rhetoric is dangerous and puts all Americans at greater risk.
The scariest aspect is that he has so much support.
He's an extremely dangerous demagogue.
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I wish but I don't think so, however I still don't see him winning the Republican nomination when it comes down to it.
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I know Ann Coulter is making Trump out to be God. Just sickening that people fall for his act. Guess no more sickening that people fell for Obama 2x's.
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I don't think it is.  Lots of brain damaged out there that has branded itself with him.  It's similar to some past elections.
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