(Deutsche Welle) It has been several weeks now, but Wasel Yousaf has photos on his phone to help him relive the memory of meeting his idol.
“He made a joke about how tightly I was shaking his hand,” Yousaf said, looking at an image of his introduction to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, surrounded by Arab American supporters in Dearborn, Michigan.
Since then, the candidate has become the president-elect, buoyed especially in this state by voters like Yousaf, a coordinator for the state’s chapter of Arab Americans for Trump.
‘Muslim ban’ forgotten
There was a time when Trump was not a harbinger of hope for Arab Americans or Muslim Americans. Shortly after taking office in 2017, he signed an executive order banning foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, a move his critics called a “Muslim ban.”
