While President Trump did condemn the terrorist attack at the Sufi mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula which claimed over 300 lives, he used the attack as an opportunity to promote both the Wall along the Mexican border and the Muslim travel ban:
Will be calling the President of Egypt in a short while to discuss the tragic terrorist attack, with so much loss of life. We have to get TOUGHER AND SMARTER than ever before, and we will. Need the WALL, need the BAN! God bless the people of Egypt.
What a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has to do with a terrorist attack in Egypt isn't exactly clear. But at present the Muslim travel ban doesn't apply to Egypt. In light of this attack, is Trump planning to include Egypt in the ban? If this is the case then would this ban extend to the families of the 300 plus people who were murdered for praying?
Chances are Trump is tweeting out of his ass. Hopefully this is the case. Yet one can never discount the possibility that his tweets represent U.S. foreign policy in all its all case letter glory.
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