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Suggesting that little execution planning went into the implementation of Trump's controversial executive order temporarily banning the admission of refugees and travellers from seven countries, less than 24 hours later the impact was already resonating at airports around the world and could best be summarized in one word: confusion. It was most evident at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport where a dozen people were detained and some separated from family members, according to lawmakers and attorneys scrambling to get them released and struggling to interpret the new rules.

President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night that is often referred to as the 'board meeting of America's establishment', Kellyanne Conway confirmed to Politico that Trump will not attend the exclusive black-tie dinner - and White House roast - that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.

In response to Trump's ban on refugees and blacklist from several muslim nations, the NY Times spent their morning offering inane anecdotal stories of exceptional people being blocked from reentering the United States. This is the very definition of dishonest reporting, as it draws on the emotional strings of empathetic people, deceptively supported by weakly sourced and illogical anecdotal stories designed to generate refugee sympathy.

It seems quite ironic that the tagline of Project Syndicate is "fake news or real views?" as it appears the latest scribblings from France's New Philosophers' Movement founder Bernard-Henri Levy have blurred the lines between propaganda, fake news, alternative facts, pure lies, and defamation.

Having slammed the so-called anti-intellectualism movement...

One of the most vocal, and angry, reactions to Trump's anti-immigration executive order came from Iran whose foreign ministry, as noted previously, vowed to take reciprocal measures, as the Iranian government called the ban "an insult to the Muslim world." Tehran did not waste any time, and shortly after Iran said it would ban U.S. citizens entering the country in retaliation to Washington's visa ban against the nation.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani