Jaap Jongbloed no longer wants to go on holiday to United States now that so much is changing there under the leadership of Donald Trump. “I really wonder if I would like to.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the travel advice for LGBTI people who want to travel to the United States amended And that leads to some controversy. According to EenVandaag More and more people about a trip to America and Jaap Jongbloed has that feeling too, he says in the talk show of Beau van Erven Dorens.
Dystopian
Host Beau thinks it is really out of the spots. “You have such a series that is called The Handmaid’s Tale. Do you remember that series? That was a kind of dystopic picture of America and it is going more and more that way. That is painful that you can no longer be who you are? You must either be a man or a woman.”
Table guest Saskia Belleman: “Well, I wonder what happens when you report in America. Whether you are denied access to the country or will be sent back?”
Beau: “I think so.”
So not welcome
Saskia is a bit done with it. “At the same time I also think: if I belong to this group, I believe that I would not even want to go to this country anymore. You don’t feel so welcome.”
Beau: “Exactly. You have to imagine that you are American and there are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, who do not feel man or female, but something in between. They now feel really attacked and pushed back into the closet.”
Very difficult
Saskia sympathizes with that group. “They get a really difficult life in the coming years. That is certain, yes.”
Jaap Jongbloed indicates that he does not belong to the group, but he himself no longer feels like the US. “Yes, but not only in America. I really wonder if I would still like to go to America at all.”
“How far is it?”
Republicans in the US state of Arkansas want one Prohibition of a short haircut For girls. Saskia: “What is the next step? That a girl is no longer allowed to wear pants? How far does the government go?”
Jaap: “What is generally worse is that they also have the judicial statements paint. At least, Trump.”
Saskia: “So he is the man of the ‘Free Country’, huh, the United States. And then these kinds of draconian measures? What is free about that?”
Beau: “Exactly, you say it and we all think so.”