This Day in Trump, Day 8: Trump International

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Friday took the international stage — in both actions and words.He hosted his first meeting with a foreign leader, British Prime Minister Theresa May, touting the U.S.'s "special relationship" with that country. He reached a détente of sorts with Mexico, after enraging America's southern neighbor with talk of border walls and import taxes.And then he fulfilled his divisive campaign promise to create "extreme vetting" for refugees, signing an executive order to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States."The order suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, while barring refugees from Syria indefinitely. It also contained a temporary entry ban affecting seven majority-Muslim countries, the Washington Post reported."We don't want them here," Trump said at the Pentagon. "We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas."  Continue reading...

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