Philippines Talks of Barring Donald Trump for Calling It a ‘Terrorist Nation’

MANILA — Donald J. Trump’s recent assertion that the United States was letting in “animals” from “terrorist nations,” among them the Philippines, has provoked a strong backlash here, making headlines and prompting a Philippine congressman to propose barring Mr. Trump from the country.

The congressman, Jose Salceda, filed a resolution this week seeking to “refuse Donald J. Trump entry into the Philippines” for the “wholesale labeling of Filipinos as coming from a ‘terrorist’ state.”

Mr. Salceda condemned Mr. Trump’s “ugliness of utterances, largely unprompted and undeserved,” even though Mr. Trump profited handsomely from licensing his name and brand to a real estate development in the Philippines.

“We’re dealing
with animals.”

At a campaign rally last week in Portland, Me., Mr. Trump said refugees from “terrorist nations” should be barred from the United States.

“We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them,” he said. He then named several countries, including the Philippines, whose immigrants, he said, had been arrested in the United States for terrorism-related offenses.

“We’re dealing with animals,” he said.

Mr. Trump presents quite a different message about the Philippines on the website for Trump Tower at Century City, a $150 million, 57-story apartment building nearing completion in metropolitan Manila.

“I’ve always loved the Philippines,” he says. “I think it’s just a special place and Manila is one of Asia’s most spectacular cities.”

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