Khizr Khan reemerges to lead boycott of ‘everything’ Trump

“Don’t take me there yet,” said Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in action that President Trump skewered after the Virginian spoke at the Democratic National Convention last summer. “We will boycott everything and anything Trump if this continues,” Khan said during a news conference on the Capitol grounds Wednesday. “The world will boycott anything and everything Trump … don’t push us in that direction.”

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said Latinos and other immigrant-heavy groups are girded for battle.

“We’re ready to fight,” he said. “We’re ready to win; we’re ready to move forward.”

The House Democratic Caucus Chairman called President Trump a coward for issuing the order.

“We get the best and brightest and bravest,” from the rest of the world, the New Yorker said. “And if they’re the bravest, the actions that our president took over this weekend [were] cowardly,” Crowley said. “He’s a coward because only a coward and a bully would do what he did.”

Gutierrez said Americans should take no pleasure in the plight of those stuck in limbo because of the order.

“I don’t feel powerful as an American when I deny the entry of people fleeing tyrants and looking for refuge—that doesn’t make me feel powerful and strong,” he said.

Gutierrez, a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent who is a leading advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, said his heart was torn when he heard about green card holders trapped at airports around the world.

Saturday night “I felt like a refugee; I felt that I had left a war-torn country,” he said.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said blocking people from entering the U.S. does not make Americans safer.

Trump is trying to convince Americans that it does but he is a “con man” who is “selling lies.”

Meeks said he and others will work to “take our country back now.”