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Roland99

(53,342 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:39 PM Mar 2020

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So, the ban on travel from Europe is really just on the EU. Putin smiling bigly

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So, the ban on travel from Europe is really just on the EU. Putin smiling bigly (Original Post) Roland99 Mar 2020 OP

Yes. Other countries have COVID-19, too, The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

I see no trump properties in Europe vapor2 Mar 2020 #2

Ireland is in the EU HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #3

He may be too stupid to know that nt leftieNanner Mar 2020 #4

But Ireland is not Schengen Area; Ireland is not part of the travel ban even though they are EU. RockRaven Mar 2020 #5

Yeah I get that HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,853 posts)

1. Yes. Other countries have COVID-19, too,

Reply to Roland99 (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:41 PM

Mar 2020

but the ban relates only to EU countries and non-EU Schengen-area countries (e.g., Norway).

vapor2

(1,249 posts)

2. I see no trump properties in Europe

Reply to Roland99 (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:43 PM

Mar 2020

but they are in Ireland and Scotland. This explains his travel ban

HarlanPepper

(2,042 posts)

3. Ireland is in the EU

Reply to vapor2 (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:45 PM

Mar 2020

leftieNanner

(15,150 posts)

4. He may be too stupid to know that nt

Reply to HarlanPepper (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:49 PM

Mar 2020

RockRaven

(14,998 posts)

5. But Ireland is not Schengen Area; Ireland is not part of the travel ban even though they are EU.

Reply to HarlanPepper (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:49 PM

Mar 2020

Ireland is not part of the travel ban. Nor is the UK. So the accusation that Trump chose an area which -- by total coincidence -- left out his resorts/properties holds...

HarlanPepper

(2,042 posts)

6. Yeah I get that

Reply to RockRaven (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 11:53 PM

Mar 2020

That’s why when I fly home from Ireland I go through US customs in Dublin and the flight is treated like a domestic arrival back here. I thought the other poster was talking specifically about EU membership.

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