The tweet was shared tens of thousands of times within hours after it was posted as protests continued across the country in response to the decision by the Trump administration to suspend the issuing of visas to visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia Libya, Iran, and Iraq. “First of all, this is private investment, so there’s no legal authority for the government to require a private company to use domestic materials,” Dan Ikenson, director of the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, tells CNBC. “We don’t want them here,” the former Apprentice host, 70, said during a press conference, noting that his executive order was part of an extreme vetting plan to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the country.
Iran says it will take reciprocal action after U.S. President Donald Trump signed the executive order which limits immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.