How Donald Trump Conned Muslims and Palestinian Americans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump could have ended US arms shipments on his first day in office.
64% : Muslims who voted for him, gambled that Trump would keep his promise.
55% : " On the 2024 campaign trail, Trump promised to reinstate his "famous" ("infamous" is more like it)
51% : Instead, Trump the real estate mogul has proposed turning Gaza into a luxury resort -- just not for Palestinians.
50% : Trump has called for police surveillance of mosques and claimed that after 9/11 "thousands and thousands" of Muslims celebrated in Jersey City, New Jersey and that he had seen the celebrations on TV.
50% : Trump will do everything he can to help Israel drive out the Palestinians because he wholeheartedly supports Benjamin Netanyahu.[1]
49% : Trump visited Dearborn, Michigan, home to the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the US.
49% : On his social media site, Truth Social, President Trump wrote that "This is the first arrest of many to come.
47% : Trump in his first term moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Islam's third-most holy site; he cut off US funding for UNRWA, the UN agency which provides relief to Palestinian refugees; and backed Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights.
46% : Those may be the truest words Trump has ever spoken.
43% : Trump appeared on stage in Michigan with Muslim community leaders.
43% : Trump proposed setting up a computer database that would track all Muslims in the US.
43% : I have no doubt that Mahmoud's wife (who has asked media to withhold her name owing to safety concerns), a US citizen who is eight-months pregnant, has been going through hell ever since ICE led her husband away in handcuffs.
34% : It was not long after the 2024 election that Arab Americans and Muslims who had voted for Donald Trump realized they had been had.
31% : Trump actively courted Muslim and Arab American voters by promising to bring peace to Gaza.
29% : Trump replied: "I don't trust anybody."
28% : For now, here are just a couple of Donald Trump's many alarming Islamophobic statements: On December 7, 2015, Trump tweeted that Muslim immigrants represented an "extraordinary influx of hatred & danger coming into our country" and warned that "We must be vigilant.
22% : Trump has repeatedly claimed that the US has a "Muslim problem.
22% : " Trump promised Muslims that he would end the slaughter in Gaza.
20% : Trump's anti-Muslim remarks are too numerous to recount here, but readers can start with the list compiled by the Muslim advocacy group MPower Change: "86 Times Donald Trump Displayed Or Promoted Islamophobia."
2% : " On March 9, 2016, in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Trump said: "I think Islam hates us" (Trump made it clear that "us" referred to "people who are not Muslim").

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