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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Sean O'Grady

Voices: Why Trump’s travel ban won’t work – and doesn’t deserve to

To borrow a famous phrase from another American president, no one should ever misunderestimate the capacity for idiocy of Donald J Trump.

You’d think we’d be used to it by now – but today we’re coming to terms with another Trump travel ban, the embarrassment of which has been amplified by his decision to announce it in a solemn national address on the television; like JFK in the Cuban missile crisis, or Nixon saying he had never been a quitter in his resignation statement.

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