{"id":88252,"date":"2017-02-06T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88252"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T03:21:11","slug":"trump-allow-those-into-us-who-want-to-love-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/06\/trump-allow-those-into-us-who-want-to-love-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Allow those into US who ‘want to love our country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump vowed Monday to allow only people who \u201cwant to love our country\u201d into the United States, defending his immigration and refugee restrictions as he made his first visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command. (Photo: Donald J. Trump\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. \u2013President Donald Trump vowed Monday to allow only people who \u201cwant to love our country\u201d into the United States, defending his immigration and refugee restrictions as he made his first visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n

Trump reaffirmed his support for NATO before military leaders and troops and laced his speech with references to homeland security amid a court battle over his travel ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries. He did not directly mention the case now before a federal appeals court after a lower court temporarily suspended the ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need strong programs\u201d so that \u201cpeople that love us and want to love our country and will end up loving our country are allowed in\u201d and those who \u201cwant to destroy us and destroy our country\u201d are kept out, Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom, security and justice will prevail,\u201d Trump added. \u201cWe will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and we will not allow it to take root in our country. We’re not going to allow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump touched upon various alliances in his remarks, noting, \u201cwe strongly support NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n

He spoke Sunday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. A White House statement said the two \u201cdiscussed how to encourage all NATO allies to meet their defence spending commitments,\u201d and also talked about the crisis in Ukraine and security challenges facing NATO countries.<\/p>\n

Trump once dismissed the trans-Atlantic military alliance as \u201cobsolete,\u201d and said he would decide whether to protect NATO countries against Russian aggression based on whether those countries \u201chave fulfilled their obligations to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking as commander in chief, Trump repeated his promises to defeat \u201cradical Islamic terrorists\u201d but provided no specifics on any policy changes he wants in the fight against the Islamic State. He complained about media coverage of terrorist attacks, suggesting there were many attacks going intentionally unreported by the media.<\/p>\n

In response to requests for evidence to support that claim, the White House released a list of 78 attacks it described as \u201cexecuted or inspired by\u201d the Islamic State group since September 2014. Most on the list did not get sufficient media attention, the White House said.<\/p>\n

The list included incidents like a truck massacre in Nice, France, that killed dozens and received widespread attention, as well as less high-profile incidents in which nobody was killed.<\/p>\n

The AP could not verify that each of the incidents had connections to the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Trump sat down for lunch with a room full of troops in fatigues from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, as well as senior members of his White House staff.<\/p>\n

Trump made small talk with some of the soldiers, discussing everything from football to military careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cGonna make it a career?\u201d Trump asked one person.<\/p>\n

\u201cC’mon, you have to stay,\u201d he urged another.<\/p>\n

Trump also hailed New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, saying he \u201ccemented his place\u201d in football history after his fifth Super Bowl win Sunday.<\/p>\n

Trump stopped at the base on the way back to Washington after his first weekend away from the White House. Trump spent the weekend at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, with first lady Melania Trump, who had not appeared in public since shortly after her husband took office.<\/p>\n

At MacDill, the president was briefed by CENTCOM and SOCOM leaders. A number of his advisers, including Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Michael Flynn, Trump’s national security adviser, also attended.<\/p>\n

Trump met with Florida Gov. Rick Scott before delivering his remarks, telling the crowd at CENTCOM that Scott’s endorsement of his candidacy for president \u201cmakes him a better friend of mine,\u201d adding that with those who don’t offer their endorsement, \u201cit’s never quite the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

CENTCOM oversaw a recent raid by U.S. special operations forces on an al-Qaida compound in Yemen, the first military operation authorized by Trump. A Navy SEAL, Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator William \u201cRyan\u201d Owens, 36, of Peoria, Illinois, was killed, making him the first known U.S. combat casualty under Trump.<\/p>\n

Three other U.S. service members were wounded in the operation. More than half a dozen suspected militants and more than a dozen civilians were also killed, including the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and U.S. citizen who was targeted and killed in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike.<\/p>\n

Trump made no mention of Owens or the raid in Yemen during his remarks Monday, but he paid recognition to the sacrifices of American military families and the spouses of American soldiers, vowing his support to those who risk their lives for the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe protect those who protect us, and we will never, ever let you down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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