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Farah: ‘Trump’s made me an alien’
Olympian launches blistering attack on Trump’s Muslim ban

Olympian Mo Farah slammed United States President Donald Trump’s disgusting Muslim travel ban yesterday, saying that it “seems to have made me an alien.”

President Trump issued an executive order over the weekend banning individuals born in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the US, along with refugees.

Farah and his family have been based in the United States for the last six years and his family are there currently while he trains in Ethiopia. “On January 1 this year, the Queen made me a Knight of the Realm.

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